VAN: Declassified Review Thread (Spoilers!)

[JWolf]

Re: Vanguard: Declassified Review Thread

I thought the next Vanguard story was the last one.Am I wrong and there really is two more?

 

[Defcon]

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There are two more: What Judgments Come by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore in October and Storming Heaven by David Mack in April 2012.

 

[BrotherBenny]

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I do have a question related to the Vanguard series: How do the more evocative titles originate? I've discovered that The Bright Face of Danger is a much-used title that seems to have originated with a turn of the century novel by Robert Neilson Stephens, and I think I've tracked down Night's Black Agents, but I'm curious about some other titles, such as The Stars Look Down and The Ruins of Noble Men.

The bolded titles are not from Vanguard? Where are they from? A Google search will usually find them if they're not used in epigraphs within the book.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

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Outstanding!!!

The Pennington story and the one by David Mack inperticular!!!!

I love Cervantis Quinn and I can't believe he killed off Bridy Mac so sad!

Also I want more stories about Captain Diego Reyes and Gorkon!!

 

[David Mack]

Re: Vanguard: Declassified Review Thread

I do have a question related to the Vanguard series: How do the more evocative titles originate? I've discovered that The Bright Face of Danger is a much-used title that seems to have originated with a turn of the century novel by Robert Neilson Stephens, and I think I've tracked down Night's Black Agents, but I'm curious about some other titles, such as The Stars Look Down and The Ruins of Noble Men.

The bolded titles are not from Vanguard? Where are they from? A Google search will usually find them if they're not used in epigraphs within the book.

Those bolded titles were section titles from within Reap the Whirlwind and Precipice, respectively.

The prologue title, "The Fire and the Song" is an allusion to "the fire and the rose are one", the final line from T.S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding."

Part 1 was "The Brink of Shadow". I just cooked that up.

Part 2, "The Bright Face of Danger", you've already sourced.

Part 3, "Instruments of Darkness" is from Macbeth.

The epilogue, "Ministers of Vengeance", is my invention, and an inversion of the phrase "ministers of grace".

In Precipice, it's more of the same:

Part One, "Such Deliberate Disguises" - from T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men".

Part Two, "Night's Black Agents," is from Shakespeare's Macbeth

Part Three, "One Little Victory", is the title of the first song on the RUSH album Vapor Trails.

Part Four, "The End of Ourselves," is one of my inventions.

The title of my story in Declassified, "The Stars Look Down," is another song title from RUSH's Vapor Trails. It's a song about realizing that one actually has no control over one's own fate, and that the universe is indifferent to our joy and our suffering. The stars look down ... and don't care.

I won't reveal them just yet, but be on the lookout for more Shakespeare-inspired section titles in next year's Vanguard finale, Storming Heaven.

 

[BrotherBenny]

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Ah, I stand corrected.

 

[Darth Duck]

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I won't reveal them just yet, but be on the lookout for more Shakespeare-inspired section titles in next year's Vanguard finale, Storming Heaven.

But will there be RUSH-inspired section titles?

 

[David Mack]

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Nope. Not in Storming Heaven. All Shakespeare-inspired.

 

[Darth Duck]

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I don't know why but that makes me a little sad.

 

[elaithin]

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Well, that's because Rush is the music of the universe. There should always be more of that.

 

[ATimson]

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I think I remember hearing that J. Noah Kim was not that author's real name, and I've always wondered if perhaps that was Marco.

J. Noah Kym is not Marco Palmieri.

 

[Cicero]

Re: Vanguard: Declassified Review Thread

I do have a question related to the Vanguard series: How do the more evocative titles originate? I've discovered that The Bright Face of Danger is a much-used title that seems to have originated with a turn of the century novel by Robert Neilson Stephens, and I think I've tracked down Night's Black Agents, but I'm curious about some other titles, such as The Stars Look Down and The Ruins of Noble Men.

The bolded titles are not from Vanguard? Where are they from? A Google search will usually find them if they're not used in epigraphs within the book.

Those bolded titles were section titles from within Reap the Whirlwind and Precipice, respectively.

The prologue title, "The Fire and the Song" is an allusion to "the fire and the rose are one", the final line from T.S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding."

Part 1 was "The Brink of Shadow". I just cooked that up.

Part 2, "The Bright Face of Danger", you've already sourced.

Part 3, "Instruments of Darkness" is from Macbeth.

The epilogue, "Ministers of Vengeance", is my invention, and an inversion of the phrase "ministers of grace".

In Precipice, it's more of the same:

Part One, "Such Deliberate Disguises" - from T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men".

Part Two, "Night's Black Agents," is from Shakespeare's Macbeth

Part Three, "One Little Victory", is the title of the first song on the RUSH album Vapor Trails.

Part Four, "The End of Ourselves," is one of my inventions.

The title of my story in Declassified, "The Stars Look Down," is another song title from RUSH's Vapor Trails. It's a song about realizing that one actually has no control over one's own fate, and that the universe is indifferent to our joy and our suffering. The stars look down ... and don't care.

I won't reveal them just yet, but be on the lookout for more Shakespeare-inspired section titles in next year's Vanguard finale, Storming Heaven.

Thanks.

 

[Marco Palmieri]

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2) making the Dauntless a Pyotr Veilikiy-class from Masao Okazaki's Starfleet Museum. So many TOS-era designs wind up being just re-arrangments of Consitution parts, but the Veilikiy has its own lines. Not the prettiest ship, but the design works.

Methinks she's pretty enough:
http://otherworldeditorial.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/nerdity-alert-the-dauntless/

I'm curious about some other titles, such as The Stars Look Down and The Ruins of Noble Men.

The Ruins of Noble Men also draws its inspiration from Shakespeare, paraphrasing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar:

Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever livèd in the tide of times.

Best,

 

[nickyboy]

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Great Book, Marco's story and David Mack's story really stood out. Only 2 more instalments to go. But if you gotta go, go out on top

 

[JD]

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I just finished "Almost Tomorrow, and I loved it. It came ascross to me as a Vanguard origin story, and I thought with this in mind it did a great job of showing us the beginnings of some of the relationships, and situations we saw in the rest of the series. My only real complaint is that Tim Pennington and Ming Xiong, two of my favorite Vanguard characters, weren't in the story at all. My Rating: 9/10

 

[Ronald Held]

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Finshed second story, did not stand out. Maybe, like others, I am not enamored with Tim. Starting on the third.

 

[Mage]

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Well, just finished Precipe, so I can finally start reading Declassified. Precipe left me wanting for so much more, so can't wait.

 

[BrotherBenny]

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Well, just finished Precipe, so I can finally start reading Declassified. Precipe left me wanting for so much more, so can't wait.

It's Precipice.

 

[Mage]

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Well, just finished Precipe, so I can finally start reading Declassified. Precipe left me wanting for so much more, so can't wait.

It's Precipice.

Was typing a bit to fast when I posted that. Thanks.

Anyway, finished the first story, started on the second one this morning. Liked the first one, nice to see how some things started. Not to sure about the second one yet. I like Pennington, but I'm not a huge fan of stories told from first person perspective, so will have to wait and see if the story itself can grab me.

 

[Zman1]

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Almost Tomorrow - great story i'd love to see more written like that one.

Hard News - another well written story, i hope tim is there when the orions get whats coming to them.

The Ruins of Noble Men - great story, i loved how the colonist problem got wrapped up.. but at the end i'm hopeing desai's transfer gets sidetracked.

The Stars Look Down -

Spoiler: <bleep>... <bleep>

喝畜生杂交的脏货... 笨天生的一堆肉!

seriously he just got his life together and now... why? i really identified with quinn and to see the guy dealt a hand like that... go

Spoiler: <bleep

跟猴子比丟屎

you

Spoiler: <bleep>

流口水的婊子和猴子的笨兒子

up till that point i loved the story was the best of the 4... after that point i'd say i liked ruins best.


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