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ready and waiting
Feb. 23rd, 2007 02:15 amI think I'm mostly prepared for a visitor; bathroom is clean, lounge is, if not tidy, arranged into various piles, and there's pizza in the freezer and a bottle of wine on the side . . .
So GetBackers is finished. Ah well. It had a good run and some marvellous stories. And there's still plenty of it to come in translation so that I can read it properly. (Scans or online whatevers are just not the same.)
There are a stack of printed-out redlines and comments sitting next to my computer for me to read, but they can wait till Sunday evening.
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"Now listen carefully, 007. Bloomsbury put a great deal of thought and effort into this costume before deciding to put you into it. First, the wand. Fires 7.62 NATO, single-shot or cyclic, switching here to 20mm HE or APDS. This is your owl release. The owl contains internal GPS and multispectral scanning, and can drop acoustic mice with satellite uplink. I'd describe the pen, but it doesn’t seem like your style.
"Pay attention. These are twin Rolls-Royce 'Petrel' vectored-thrust engines. Rainstorms have been known to develop inside the Javits Centre, so I trust you'll use your customary caution, ha bloody ha. This switch is afterburner. Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for: the emergency egress system. Once activated, the explosive bolts are on a five-second delay, and once Dame Judi's recorded voice starts counting down, neither God nor Tony Blair can abort the cycle."
-- John M Ford
So GetBackers is finished. Ah well. It had a good run and some marvellous stories. And there's still plenty of it to come in translation so that I can read it properly. (Scans or online whatevers are just not the same.)
There are a stack of printed-out redlines and comments sitting next to my computer for me to read, but they can wait till Sunday evening.
---
"Now listen carefully, 007. Bloomsbury put a great deal of thought and effort into this costume before deciding to put you into it. First, the wand. Fires 7.62 NATO, single-shot or cyclic, switching here to 20mm HE or APDS. This is your owl release. The owl contains internal GPS and multispectral scanning, and can drop acoustic mice with satellite uplink. I'd describe the pen, but it doesn’t seem like your style.
"Pay attention. These are twin Rolls-Royce 'Petrel' vectored-thrust engines. Rainstorms have been known to develop inside the Javits Centre, so I trust you'll use your customary caution, ha bloody ha. This switch is afterburner. Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for: the emergency egress system. Once activated, the explosive bolts are on a five-second delay, and once Dame Judi's recorded voice starts counting down, neither God nor Tony Blair can abort the cycle."
-- John M Ford
