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Skriven 2007-02-11 14:28:12 av Michael Harper (15482.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Military tactics in sci-fi?
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"Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C1F4B92000044579F0182648@news.verizon.net...
> >> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:37:14 -0500, Michael Harper wrote
> (in article <OpWdnVjXp-zfgVLYnZ2dnUVZ_qSrnZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
> >
> > "Jeffrey Kaplan" <nomail@gordol.org> wrote in message
> > news:a9srs2lor62hj9msp29m7rve7hsct976l6@gordol.org...
> >> It is alleged that Michael Harper claimed:
> >>
> >>> It's possible that Admiral Hague had gotten killed during an attack
> > along
> >>> with most of his command crew, and the highest-ranking officer aboard
> >>> happened to be Major Ryan. I used the same basic idea for a Trek novel
> > that
> >>> I couldn't sell, Battlefield Commission. My character was a young
ensign
> >>> aboard a heavy cruiser who was the highest-ranking bridge officer
still
> >>> alive after a brutal attack on the Lexington. At 26, she was the
> > youngest
> >>> Starfleet captain in history, much to the annoyance of her superiors
at
> > SFC.
> >>> But she made it stick, and made it work.
> >>
> >> Sounds like an Elizabeth Moon plot.
> >>
> >>> The reason I can't sell the novel is because Pocket won't take stuff
> > like
> >>> this from unpublished writers, and they like to have some reference to
> >>> existing characers, which there are none of. I guess I could rewrite
> > it...
> >>
> >> Sure!  Set it towards the end of the TOS timeline and use it to kill
> >> off Kirk.  Or earlier, and kill off Archer.  Or later and kill off the
> >> entire crew of Voyager.
> >
> > Or do a Lois Bujold and change it to something not-Trek and start my own
> > franchise. The Vorkosigan stuff started out as an unpublished Trek
novel. <<
>
> It's been awhile since I was in book publishing, but that would be _my_
> recommendation.  If it's a good novel, you'll probably get much more
> attention for it as a stand-alone than as part of the Trek franchise
(which
> is pretty much saturated, wouldn't you say?).
>

I'm considering it. I need to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, anyhow;
the original ms. got lost between here and Memphis.

The book I've been working on has taken so many twists and turns since I
started on it probably twenty years ago that I oughta scrap it as well.
Technology has changed in the special effects biz, and advances in nuclear
physics have changed things in that aspect of the story as well, so the way
things started off are now less workable, even though I deliberately set the
beginning of the book in 1997 so I could work in the character's reactions
to 9/11... I've got a sixty year span of story to work with, and I haven't
even blown up most of human civilization yet. And the gimmick my terrorists
were gonna use got appropriated by the 9/11 hijackers, although thank all
the gods they didn't use the stunt that I was gonna pull; I was gonna use a
private plane into the side of the Empire State building, with a low-yield
nuclear warhead on board. Goodbye, Big Apple.

The damn book's gonna need a scorecard by the time I'm done. I've got half a
dozen different terrorist groups, all with different agendas, being funded
by the same guy, who gets his money from rich jihadists within the Saudi
government. (I thought it was funny to have the Greater New York American
Nazi Party, the Brotherhood of the Burning Cross and the New Black Panthers
all getting their money from the Saudis through a German banker.)

And in the middle of all this are three families in SoCal, trying to survive
over here while the war is going on over there... and one of them has a
secret that could mean the salvation of humanity.

And I can't get an agent.

Mike
<many kisses to Amy for listening to my whimpering>
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