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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2020 6:41:39 GMT
Interesting bit of trivia: A fair amount of the Cartmel era of Who drew from the aesthetic of Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones. One significant plot element in those stories are the Cetaceans, talking dolphins who function similar to the Guild Navigators of Dune. They're the only ones who can navigate successfully through hyperspace. They end up being a symbol for humanity's conscience and a sort of moral surety that later becomes apparent in the third book.
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Post by newt5996 on Mar 14, 2020 21:24:10 GMT
Interesting bit of trivia: A fair amount of the Cartmel era of Who drew from the aesthetic of Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones. One significant plot element in those stories are the Cetaceans, talking dolphins who function similar to the Guild Navigators of Dune. They're the only ones who can navigate successfully through hyperspace. They end up being a symbol for humanity's conscience and a sort of moral surety that later becomes apparent in the third book. Just another reason I need to read Dune which has been on my list and my shelf for a while now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 23:03:18 GMT
Interesting bit of trivia: A fair amount of the Cartmel era of Who drew from the aesthetic of Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones. One significant plot element in those stories are the Cetaceans, talking dolphins who function similar to the Guild Navigators of Dune. They're the only ones who can navigate successfully through hyperspace. They end up being a symbol for humanity's conscience and a sort of moral surety that later becomes apparent in the third book. Just another reason I need to read Dune which has been on my list and my shelf for a while now. It's a very good book. It looks a bit daunting from the outset, but it's really two closely-linked novels combined together into a single volume. What happens with the Atreides and later their experiences among the Fremen. Lawrence of Arabia's mammoth runtime with the intermission in the middle feels as though it was probably an influence. It's one of those books you read and suddenly its influence is everywhere. Robert Holmes cherrypicked from it for some of his later Blake's 7 ("Traitor"/"Orbit") and Doctor Who stories ( The Caves of Androzani).
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2020 9:37:39 GMT
What's your opinion of the Grey Man? I found his description of his peers to Benny sounded an awful lot like the Black and White Guardians.
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Post by newt5996 on May 26, 2020 17:22:00 GMT
What's your opinion of the Grey Man? I found his description of his peers to Benny sounded an awful lot like the Black and White Guardians. That's definitely a valid reading of the text, and possibly something that O'Mahony may have had in mind. The thing with Falls the Shadow is that there's so much there to read into that I don't know if that's the only explanation.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 0:34:35 GMT
What's your opinion of the Grey Man? I found his description of his peers to Benny sounded an awful lot like the Black and White Guardians. That's definitely a valid reading of the text, and possibly something that O'Mahony may have had in mind. The thing with Falls the Shadow is that there's so much there to read into that I don't know if that's the only explanation. You're right there. Shadow talks a lot about the holistic theory of time travel. In rational, reasonable terms that can be quantified by the common senses, but we never get that kind of explanation for Gabriel and Tanith. Not really. It's never made clear what went wrong (or if anything went wrong) in Cathedral to create them, which arguably makes them far scarier. It's got one of my favourite development stories behind it. Allegedly, the book began life as a gathering of rumours, gossip and inference around Ghost Light, which when put together looked nothing like the actual thing. The full novel spun out from there.
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