Minor All The Rage and The Haunted Air spoilers.
In the Haunted Air Jack goes to see Madam Pomerol and uses the pseudonym Bob Butler, which is the name of the man in All the Rage that almost threw Vicky off the art museum steps while he was high on Loki. Also, this is minor, but also in THA it's mentioned that the house Gia and Vicky live in was owned by her aunts who used to live there with their maid. It refers to the maid as Nellie, but her name is Eunice. I love these connections. I'm re-reading the RJ books now and I'm finding a lot more connections reading the books back to back (instead of waiting months for the next one to come out!).
In the Haunted Air Jack goes to see Madam Pomerol and uses the pseudonym Bob Butler, which is the name of the man in All the Rage that almost threw Vicky off the art museum steps while he was high on Loki. Also, this is minor, but also in THA it's mentioned that the house Gia and Vicky live in was owned by her aunts who used to live there with their maid. It refers to the maid as Nellie, but her name is Eunice. I love these connections. I'm re-reading the RJ books now and I'm finding a lot more connections reading the books back to back (instead of waiting months for the next one to come out!).
This post was last modified: 05-24-2005, 11:14 AM by stacyzinda123.
stacyzinda123 Wrote:Minor All The Rage and The Haunted Air spoilers.
In the Haunted Air Jack goes to see Madam Pomerol and uses the pseudonym Bob Butler, which is the name of the man in All the Rage that almost threw Vicky off the art museum steps while he was high on Loki. Also, this is minor, but also in THA it's mentioned that the house Gia and Vicky live in was owned by her aunts who used to live there with their maid. It refers to the maid as Nellie, but her name is Eunice. I love these connections. I'm re-reading the RJ books now and I'm finding a lot more connections reading the books back to back (instead of waiting months for the next one to come out!).
Nice!!!!
KRW
stacyzinda123 Wrote:It refers to the maid as Nellie, but her name is Eunice.
How'd I let that one slip through?
FPW
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stacyzinda123 Wrote:I have some of it. Or all of it, I'm not sure. I read the Tery and Healer. I also have AEOTS and WWW. Are there others? I need to check Aphew's FAQ again because I've been a little cornfused as to the order and such. And frankly, they just didn't sound as appealing to me as his other work. I'm re-reading All the Rage right now. I should just bite the bullet and read those when I'm done.
Maggers Wrote:I think the order isAccording to the chronology listed in The LaNague Chronicles the order of the novels is;
Healer
The Tery
AEOTS
WWW
Not 100% sure about the first two, though.
An Enemy Of The State
Dydeetown World
The Tery
Healer
Wheels Within Wheels
This chronology is different to the one shown in the story cross reference on the site here.
Events in The Tery are alluded to in Healer as being the reason Dalt quit the Federation Survey Teams. Plus the Baen edition of The Tery includes the Healer I in it.
Wheels Within Wheels is concurrent with the middle section of Healer.
The character of DeBloise appears in both books, in Healer as Sector Representative DeBloise and in Wheels Within Wheels as Elson deBloise. The "de" of the surname is emphasised differently in the two stories.
The company Star Ways is mentioned in both stories, also the Terran-Tarkan War. Plus there are other links between An Enemy Of The State, Healer & Wheels Within Wheels.
Wayne
fpw Wrote:And the culminating event in THE TERY is alluded to in HEALER. (I believe.)
IIRC, Dalt mentions in Healer that he left the planetary survey group because of a disagreement over whether the THE TERY planet should be brought into the federation or left on its own. He thought it should be brought in and his superiors did not. He later realized that he was wrong.
Ken V.
fpw Wrote:How'd I let that one slip through?
Well, of course the =real= Paul wouldn't have. But you see, boys and girls, the aliens always make =one= mistake...
raw cid Wrote:hi-de-ho,
black wind has an obscure reference to the keep. the monks detect something 'cataclysmic' during april/may of 1941. later, they erroneously assume it referred to the german invasion of russia in late june.
cid
Yeah, it WAS cataclysmic for the Germans; unfortunately not as much so for the Russians.
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And no, I'm not talking about the line up the back of a thtocking.
There are plot themes which are repeated to a certain extend in different books.
Awareness of one's physiology down to the cellular level as exhibited by Pard in HEALER, turned out to be the major theme in THE FIFTH HARMONIC, (ultimately) and awareness on the molecular level by Rasamathingy was mentioned in NIGHTWORLD.
Entering the mind of a psychotic:
The scene in HEALER where Dalt enters the mind of "Sally Ragna" who is suffering from "the horrors," is repeated as the major theme in Mirage.
For what It's worth, Spoonerville on the planet Tolive in Healer is named after a real historical figure. Lysander Spooner of Boston, Mass. (1808 -- 1887) He is also quoted in An Enemy Of The State in one of the chapter headings. The quote is from, No Treason: A Constitution of no Authority, Part VI.
In Healer, during their lunch on the first day Dalt is on Tolive, Ellen Lettre mentions a street called Ben Tucker Drive. Benjamin R. Tucker was also a real historical figure and was also from Massachusetts. (1854 -- 1939) Both Spooner and Tucker were American Individualist Anarchists.
(See, Men Against The State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827 - 1908, by James J. Martin.)
Bernardo De La Paz Space Port mentioned in An Enemy Of The State, is named after Professor Bernardo De La Paz who was a major character in Robert A. Heinlein's Sci-Fi novel, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
That's all for now.
Ken V.
There are plot themes which are repeated to a certain extend in different books.
Awareness of one's physiology down to the cellular level as exhibited by Pard in HEALER, turned out to be the major theme in THE FIFTH HARMONIC, (ultimately) and awareness on the molecular level by Rasamathingy was mentioned in NIGHTWORLD.
Entering the mind of a psychotic:
The scene in HEALER where Dalt enters the mind of "Sally Ragna" who is suffering from "the horrors," is repeated as the major theme in Mirage.
For what It's worth, Spoonerville on the planet Tolive in Healer is named after a real historical figure. Lysander Spooner of Boston, Mass. (1808 -- 1887) He is also quoted in An Enemy Of The State in one of the chapter headings. The quote is from, No Treason: A Constitution of no Authority, Part VI.
In Healer, during their lunch on the first day Dalt is on Tolive, Ellen Lettre mentions a street called Ben Tucker Drive. Benjamin R. Tucker was also a real historical figure and was also from Massachusetts. (1854 -- 1939) Both Spooner and Tucker were American Individualist Anarchists.
(See, Men Against The State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827 - 1908, by James J. Martin.)
Bernardo De La Paz Space Port mentioned in An Enemy Of The State, is named after Professor Bernardo De La Paz who was a major character in Robert A. Heinlein's Sci-Fi novel, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
That's all for now.
Ken V.
Has anyone mentioned a link between An Enemy of the State and Masque? They both have the air tube lifts. Is that enough of a link?
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft