Freakeden Wrote:Anyway, is Midnight Mass a sequel to anything?
Freakeden Wrote:Also, FPW, have you by chance read E.E. Night's vampire series? I read Ways of the Wolf, and Choice of the Cat right before reading your Midnight Mass and the two stories complement each other amazingly, and even parallel each other such as the names given to those humans who help the vampires (Vichys in yours, and Quislings in E.E. Nights)
fpw Wrote:No. It's a continuation of a 1990 novelette of the same name.I know that Vichy refered to the French who sided with the Axis in WWII (and WWI?), but where did the term actually come from? Is it a French province or something?
No, haven't read Night, but I'll bet he read the original "Midnight Mass" novelette. It's been reprinted in various anthologies about a dozen times since 1990. I'd considered quisling as a term for the collaborators, but the "-ling" sounded diminutive. Vichy sounded better (a bit like "vicious").
jimbow8 Wrote:I know that Vichy refered to the French who sided with the Axis in WWII (and WWI?), but where did the term actually come from? Is it a French province or something?
fpw Wrote:No. It's a continuation of a 1990 novelette of the same name.
Ah, gotcha. I'll have to track down the original novelette and give it a read.
No, haven't read Night, but I'll bet he read the original "Midnight Mass" novelette. It's been reprinted in various anthologies about a dozen times since 1990. I'd considered quisling as a term for the collaborators, but the "-ling" sounded diminutive. Vichy sounded better (a bit like "vicious").
Freakeden Wrote:Yeah, now that I know the time frame of the stories I can see that Night may have been influenced by the original Novelette. As for the Quisling being the term, I remember not really getting the reference because I was thinking it meant "a lesser form of Quis" (whatever the hell a Quis was, but I'm used to reading books where not everything is explained right off)... it wasn't until a game of Trivia Pursuit that a question came up and I remembered the origin of the term.
jimbow8 Wrote:I know that Vichy refered to the French who sided with the Axis in WWII (and WWI?), but where did the term actually come from? Is it a French province or something?
Biggles Wrote:Quisling was the actual name of a WWII traitor (Norwegian?), if I'm not mistaken. And if I am, Ken will correct me.
nijimeijer Wrote:Midnight Mass--just picked it up for my girlfriend's birthday. She's never visited this forum before (despite being an even bigger FPW fan than myself)(which doesn't mean that I'm not a big fan)(this kind of thing is hard to get across on the author's own board)--anyway! She's never visited this board before, so I feel somewhat safe posting this in public.
Granted, it's this years "bowling ball" gift--meaning that it's as much for myself as her (if not moreso). But she'll like it, regardless. She loves FPW novels, and she loves vampire novels. COULD IT ) BE ANY MORE PERFECT?!