A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster
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Well Part 2 is being written up or has already been finished as of right now, what @nixonshead is likely doing now is working on the 3D models and images that will be used for the story.
As for what Reagan will do is anyone's guess, his administration is likely to pressure NASA to rush the Space Shuttle into operational service (much to the detriment of any other NASA projects) and push for Skylab B to be launch as quickly as possible to get a "proper" US response to the Soviet achievements in Space.
They might seriously look into a proposal for a Shuttle-C launched moon mission but its likely that the budget will simply not be there. The end of the Cold War is going to hurt any serious attempts of returning to the moon for certain.
Senator Proxmire and some others meanwhile is not going to be a big fan of whatever happens.
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Sorry for the lack of updates. As no-one could possibly have predicted, writing of Part 2 is taking a bit longer than hoped. I'm currently about halfway through writing, and have done some work on the models to be used in illustrations, but other committments, personal and professional, mean that my hopes of re-starting early in the New Year are probably not going to be realised.
Unless...
One option I'm exploring is pulling the old Battlestar Galactica trick (since normalised by many other shows, recently e.g. Star Trek Prodigy) of splitting a 'season' into two halves (i.e. making two seasons of half the normal length, but telling everyone "oh, no, that's all one season, honest!"). So basically, I could start posting Part 2 more-or-less to schedule, but with the drawback that it will be about half the length of Part 1.
What's the feeling on that approach?
Ah okay I was probably a bit too optimistic on how much of part 2 could be written since your going to have to somehow cover the entire 1980s with the Soviet moon lunar expeditions, Space stations and Space Shuttle.
Along with the US responses and the ultimate downfall of the Soviet Union and the fate of the N1 rocket and the space program after the fall, although all of that will be left for the Part 3 probably.
Honestly I'm not against the idea of splitting Part 2 into two parts for 2023, maybe we should have a straw poll or something to decide on whether the Part should be split or not.
I think it's always better to wait and do these things properly. It's a great tl and I look forward to reading the next section when it's done.
We could strand you on an island with George R.R. Martin until you both finish your assignments!
the thing is,
I genuinely believe Geroge isn't working on the next book,
1, it literally would be out by now
2, it should have come out when the show was still running
3, the fact he is on chapter 3 after 20 years isn't accidental
4 it would be hilarious to see his season 8 compared to the crapshow we got
I genuinely believe Geroge isn't working on the next book,
1, it literally would be out by now
2, it should have come out when the show was still running
3, the fact he is on chapter 3 after 20 years isn't accidental
4 it would be hilarious to see his season 8 compared to the crapshow we got
I should point out him being on chapter 3 means nothing, he jumps around. For example all the Tyrion chapters are finished. So he knows where the story needs to go just that he hasn’t mustered the will to actually write it down. Which is pretty relatable
The problem, though, is that the two-part approach means that if life continues to throw curveballs, Part 2 Part Deux could end up even more delayed than originally anticipated. My six grams of copper, for what they're worth, would be to take the extra time necessary to ensure the smooth release of the whole amount of story you'd originally planned for.