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COMPENDIUM collection point - Maggers - 12-09-2004
fpw Wrote:Shoreham (Wardenclyffe then) was where Tesla built his famous tower.
FPW, did you mention this tower in "Legacies?"
I know exactly where it is but I've never seen the Tower. It's on fenced-in property owned by Agfa-Gevaert (sp?). We never went in.
Shoreham is also where LILCO built the huge nuclear power plant that never went online. The building is still there, towering over the little river (Wading River) that flows into the sound, on which we used to go boating. It never went online because no plausible evacuation plan was approved for the vicinity, or the rest of Long Island for that matter. No place to run...no place to hide.
COMPENDIUM collection point - fpw - 12-09-2004
Maggers Wrote:FPW, did you mention this tower in "Legacies?"
I doubt it. I didn't know that Wardenclyffe had been absorbed by Shoreham until I researched Conspiracies. As far as I know, the tower was abandoned in 1905 after Tesla ran out of $$, and demolished by the US government during WWI for fear the Germans would seize it and use it against us (??). I understand Tesla's lab is still fairly intact, though.
COMPENDIUM collection point - matthewsmommy - 01-08-2005
Lisa Wrote:I'm merging the two compendium/companion threads since it's dumb to have two different ones. Here's what Flyboy and Aphew are looking for:
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1) Any connections between the novels/stories on the GU Map. We mainly need the more obscure ties between stories. The core novels (Adversary/RJ) connect in obvious ways, but there are smaller ways they connect as well. Those connections would be good too.
2) Anything interesting you've noticed in any of his written works. Mistakes, tie-ins, references to pop culture, etc... Basically anything that isn't part of #1 that you'd think would be interesting in a compendium.
Post your lists, ideas, etc here. You can find what this is all about here:
http://www.repairmanjack.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1119
Lisa
I have more of a question. . . . I get the feeling from reading some of the posts on this board that everything is a prequel to Night World.
My dad brought up an interesting point after reading CrissCross. (He's been wanting to re-read Night World for a while, but I haven't remembered to return it yet.) In CrissCross, the lady with the dog asks Jack if he knows Glaeken (I don't have the book with me, so I can't point out pages or quote passages). Jack says No. However, in Night World, Jack and Glaeken are together. I'm just starting the AC, so I haven't read Night World, but I skimmed the end of it enough to know that they are together and Jack calls Glaeken by name on page 350.
So, is everything else a prequel to Night World, or is Jack's ignorance of Glaeken a boo-boo?
COMPENDIUM collection point - Maggers - 01-08-2005
matthewsmommy Wrote:I have more of a question. . . . I get the feeling from reading some of the posts on this board that everything is a prequel to Night World.
My dad brought up an interesting point after reading CrissCross. (He's been wanting to re-read Night World for a while, but I haven't remembered to return it yet.) In CrissCross, the lady with the dog asks Jack if he knows Glaeken (I don't have the book with me, so I can't point out pages or quote passages). Jack says No. However, in Night World, Jack and Glaeken are together. I'm just starting the AC, so I haven't read Night World, but I skimmed the end of it enough to know that they are together and Jack calls Glaeken by name on page 350.
So, is everything else a prequel to Night World, or is Jack's ignorance of Glaeken a boo-boo?
I believe this is one of the reasons that FPW is revising and updating NIGHTWORLD for publication at a later date. When NIGHTWORLD was first written, those RJ adventures that you've mentioned, and others that interweave Glaeken and Sal Roma (in all his personifications), hadn't been written. So, in order to take into account all the "new" RJ books and all that happens within them, NIGHTWORLD is going to be adjusted.
Cool, eh?
COMPENDIUM collection point - matthewsmommy - 01-09-2005
Maggers Wrote:I believe this is one of the reasons that FPW is revising and updating NIGHTWORLD for publication at a later date. When NIGHTWORLD was first written, those RJ adventures that you've mentioned, and others that interweave Glaeken and Sal Roma (in all his personifications), hadn't been written. So, in order to take into account all the "new" RJ books and all that happens within them, NIGHTWORLD is going to be adjusted.
Cool, eh?
So, you think I should read Night World as it is, or just wait on the new version? I'm still on Reborn at the moment. . . . can't read it for all this school drama. Then again, I might just finish it tonight!
COMPENDIUM collection point - KRW - 01-09-2005
matthewsmommy Wrote:I have more of a question. . . . I get the feeling from reading some of the posts on this board that everything is a prequel to Night World.
My dad brought up an interesting point after reading CrissCross. (He's been wanting to re-read Night World for a while, but I haven't remembered to return it yet.) In CrissCross, the lady with the dog asks Jack if he knows Glaeken (I don't have the book with me, so I can't point out pages or quote passages). Jack says No. However, in Night World, Jack and Glaeken are together. I'm just starting the AC, so I haven't read Night World, but I skimmed the end of it enough to know that they are together and Jack calls Glaeken by name on page 350.
So, is everything else a prequel to Night World, or is Jack's ignorance of Glaeken a boo-boo?
JacK and Glaeken meet in Nightworld, not before. Jack and Sal Roma meet everywhere! But, and this is a BIG but, in the origanel Nightworld, Jack is clueless about the bad guy. So FPW will rewrite Nightworld to fit with Jack knowing a hell of alot about the otherness. Hope it helps!!!!
KRW
COMPENDIUM collection point - Maggers - 01-10-2005
matthewsmommy Wrote:So, you think I should read Night World as it is, or just wait on the new version? I'm still on Reborn at the moment. . . . can't read it for all this school drama. Then again, I might just finish it tonight!
Don't wait! Run, don't walk, to the next reading of NIGHTWORLD!! It is such a whale of a ride that it bears mulitple readings. Beside, as sort of an artifact of what was, it will be neat for you to read the first version and then read the newer version whenever that is available.
So, no girl, don't wait on NIGHTWORLD!
COMPENDIUM collection point - Maggers - 03-23-2005
I wrote a comparison of "Demonsong" and "Black Wind" that earned what I considered to be high praise from FPW. And now it's gone! It was posted in a thread of it's own, and then I copied it to this thread. And it disappeared from both places. Fiddlesticks! I wish I'd copied it somewhere on my computer for safe keeping.
I see that other information from this thread has disappeared. Will it affect the creation of the Compendium? Is there another place, a safer place, where the compendium information is stored? That's my sly way of asking if maybe someone else has a copy of my post on "Demonsong and Black Wind."
COMPENDIUM collection point - Maggers - 03-27-2005
I'm re-reading "Mirage." I've found a connection between it and "All the Rage."
Julie's father was a neurochemist who worked for GEM Pharmaceuticals, the same company that featured so prominently in "All the Rage."
I love finding these little links.
As an aside, I saw on another thread that it was suggested that a dictionary would be needed to help in reading "Mirage." I'm halfway through it and haven't found that to be so. I'm having no difficulty with the book. Was the dictionary suggestion made because of the medical terminology? :confused:
COMPENDIUM collection point - fpw - 03-27-2005
Maggers Wrote:As an aside, I saw on another thread that it was suggested that a dictionary would be needed to help in reading "Mirage."
I think they were probably referring to IMPLANT in which one of the characters has a penchant for obscure words.