Hah! John Carter of Mars/Lord Greystoke strikes again! I've always liked the conceit that Sam is related to the 'other' John Carter--a certain doctor in Chicago, myself.
Have you ever read "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip Jose Farmer? He did this sort of thing with Doc Savage, tying him in with "Lord Greystoke" and a certain detective in England...it's kind of hard to find, but worth reading. (If I still have a copy I'd be willing to loan it to you.)
//Hah! John Carter of Mars/Lord Greystoke strikes again!//
And half the fun of this is that I now get to dust off a bunch of ideas that I've wanted to play with since high school -- the "Greystokes" should have had a bunch of daughters, for instance, and Jane's varying surnames could perfectly well be the result of two separate instances of pseudonymity (and in that case, "Carter" makes perfect sense for her "real maiden name"), and if you have hidden cities that are the last outposts of lost civilizations in Africa, the inhabitants of at LEAST one of them should be impressively black.
//I've always liked the conceit that Sam is related to the 'other' John Carter--a certain doctor in Chicago, myself.//
... I am not at all familiar with whatever canon that may be.
On the other hand, feel free to imagine that he was the one who rushed to Tars Tarkas's side when the Thark collapsed. ^_^
//Have you ever read "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip Jose Farmer?//I've often heard of it, but never actually read it. (The problem
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I was kind of wondering if you'd be writing something about how Daniel and Carter are related, seeing as it was mentioned in days of the dead. I didn't quite get all the references (I'm not as widely read/aware-of-recent-shows as I'd like to be), but thoise I did get more than made up for it. (Loved the kid in Oxnard, for example. And the SupernaturalUniverse! hints.)
(And I saw still more foreshadowing on that thing I was commentating on earlier. Yay!)
The bit about Charlie was sad. The bits about Sha're, however, are alwats what I thought might be one of my favorite partso f your universe- you make her a real character (alive, too) not simply a paragin to be rescued.
Glad to see you're writing again. (Can't WAIT for the Rodney story.)
//I was kind of wondering if you'd be writing something about how Daniel and Carter are related, seeing as it was mentioned in "Days of the Dead."//
It's been a Zophonisbeion datum since I went overboard on the "twenty things" meme, back in 2007 (speaking of which, I need to redo that, as I've come up with better versions for a few of them, not to mention another score of random factoids), but to be properly addressed I should do it during SG-1's run, and there are vast chunks of that that I haven't SEEN. (I.e., a lot of the reason I'm not actually writing this fic at this time.) ^_^
//I'm not as widely read/aware-of-recent-shows as I'd like to be//
I myself am remarkably unaware-of-recent-shows; a friend of mine introduced me to Supernatural earlier this year (and it promptly made it into the Zophonisbeion in two separate iterations), and of course I fell in love with Human Wrecking Balls, but a lot of times I tend to hear about things late and then wonder whether or not to plait them in
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...it'd probably only add about half an hour to the total trip time, and the faces of certain of the party members would probably be a joy to behold, so... I think so, although depending on when they get off from Yosemite they'll probably stop for the night well short of or beyond it (Middle-of-Nowhere, Nevada, should have at least one OTHER hotel if the part where a man asks whether they've seen his other son and Cassie blithely tells him he's gone off to a hotel room with her other mother isn't to be too overly farcical, plus I don't know whether Rachel even has a bar to have a barfight in). ^_^
Rachel, sadly, does not have a bar. It is not actually a town, as it doesn't have a post office. (It was originally carved out of the nothingness to be a mining town, but it turned out there wasn't enough in the ground to make a going concern.) It does have a diner that has a short order cook and souvenirs as well as bathrooms and anti-gun-control stickers behind the counter. The people in the diner are certain that they have seen aliens. It also has a big sign out the front of the diner, in the car park (dirt) inviting alien spaceships to land/park.
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I wrote it up in this much detail to get the idea out of my head, and keep the outline so I can come back to it at some point.
Thank you!
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Have you ever read "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip Jose Farmer? He did this sort of thing with Doc Savage, tying him in with "Lord Greystoke" and a certain detective in England...it's kind of hard to find, but worth reading. (If I still have a copy I'd be willing to loan it to you.)
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And half the fun of this is that I now get to dust off a bunch of ideas that I've wanted to play with since high school -- the "Greystokes" should have had a bunch of daughters, for instance, and Jane's varying surnames could perfectly well be the result of two separate instances of pseudonymity (and in that case, "Carter" makes perfect sense for her "real maiden name"), and if you have hidden cities that are the last outposts of lost civilizations in Africa, the inhabitants of at LEAST one of them should be impressively black.
//I've always liked the conceit that Sam is related to the 'other' John Carter--a certain doctor in Chicago, myself.//
... I am not at all familiar with whatever canon that may be.
On the other hand, feel free to imagine that he was the one who rushed to Tars Tarkas's side when the Thark collapsed. ^_^
//Have you ever read "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip Jose Farmer?//I've often heard of it, but never actually read it. (The problem ( ... )
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I was kind of wondering if you'd be writing something about how Daniel and Carter are related, seeing as it was mentioned in days of the dead. I didn't quite get all the references (I'm not as widely read/aware-of-recent-shows as I'd like to be), but thoise I did get more than made up for it. (Loved the kid in Oxnard, for example. And the SupernaturalUniverse! hints.)
(And I saw still more foreshadowing on that thing I was commentating on earlier. Yay!)
The bit about Charlie was sad. The bits about Sha're, however, are alwats what I thought might be one of my favorite partso f your universe- you make her a real character (alive, too) not simply a paragin to be rescued.
Glad to see you're writing again. (Can't WAIT for the Rodney story.)
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Why, thank you!
//I was kind of wondering if you'd be writing something about how Daniel and Carter are related, seeing as it was mentioned in "Days of the Dead."//
It's been a Zophonisbeion datum since I went overboard on the "twenty things" meme, back in 2007 (speaking of which, I need to redo that, as I've come up with better versions for a few of them, not to mention another score of random factoids), but to be properly addressed I should do it during SG-1's run, and there are vast chunks of that that I haven't SEEN. (I.e., a lot of the reason I'm not actually writing this fic at this time.) ^_^
//I'm not as widely read/aware-of-recent-shows as I'd like to be//
I myself am remarkably unaware-of-recent-shows; a friend of mine introduced me to Supernatural earlier this year (and it promptly made it into the Zophonisbeion in two separate iterations), and of course I fell in love with Human Wrecking Balls, but a lot of times I tend to hear about things late and then wonder whether or not to plait them in ( ... )
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