Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind

[Sci]

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David Mack said:

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cmdrxeris said:
Dave, just a quick question. How many people have you killed of this time? END SUB QUOTE

Hmmm... let me think a moment....

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Including "off-screen" deaths (mentioned but not depicted), somewhere around 12,000 anonymous supernumeraries, and perhaps up to a dozen named characters (possibly including one of the series principals). Those aren't exact numbers, just a rough guess from memory.

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I have a question:

Just how many people have you killed over the course of your literary career so far?

 

[Ronald Held]

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A minor question about M'benga? Was he in the books as an integral part for a subplot?

 

[David Mack]

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Ronald Held asked:
A minor question about M'benga? Was he in the books as an integral part for a subplot?

M'Benga was included to help link Vanguard definitively to the TOS era, so there would be a semi-familiar face among Vanguard's new cast of thousands.

Sci inquired:
Just how many people have you killed over the course of your literary career so far?

Not as many as I could have.

 

[Ronald Held]

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David, thanks.

 

[Razuur2]

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LightningStorm said:
While I haven't finished Reap the Whirlwind yet (just over half way), it sounds like an appropriate next title could be "Weathering the Storm" or possibly "Lifting the Fog." These of course also keep with a sort of weather theme.

I have crossed the halfway mark and must say that I am simply *LOVING* this book. But I gotta admit, things are looking crazier and crazier. At this point I am wondering if the next book should be called "Ashes to Ashes"...

I am sure that they will come up with a great title. "Summon the Thunder" was one of my favorite book titles as well as being an astounding book.

Vanguard keeps getting better and better. Each of the books is on my top ten. I am already fearing the end of this book, because the long wait for the next book will have begun.

Patrick

BTW, great news that Wardimore is writing the next book.

 

[David Mack]

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^ Thanks, glad you're enjoying it!

 

[Vagabond]

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I'm about halfway through it myself, since I only read it during lunch at work. Yes, I have that much patience.

The little RUSH references are amusing, thanks for those.
I'm waiting for Cygnus X-1 to pop up.

 

[David Mack]

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^ It pleases me to know somebody catches those; the series has been rich with them from the outset; it also helps that Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore are also big Rush fans. As for Cygnus X-1 ... we'll have to see what we can do about that.

July 8 at the PNC Bank Arts Center, baby! Yeah!

 

[Vagabond]

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David, X-1 would be amusing actually.
For an even bigger smile...
http://www.bandboston.com/flashsite407.html

Just stay away from the controls.

 

[David cgc]

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I'm about midway through the book, but I have to stop and ask this now, because otherwise I'll forget.

Is Broon, the criminal fall-guy used by the Orion saboteurs named after Broon, the fire-eating comedian? Because that guy is funny as hell.

 

[Kevin Dilmore]

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David Mack said:
^ The outcome was left uncertain; perhaps Dayton and Kevin will address that in Vanguard Book 4.

Well, not to be too much of a party pooper, but

Spoiler: Ensign Anderson's fate

isn't a surprise for anyone who has read our S.C.E. book Foundations. He's named as assisting in S.C.E. efforts at Beta III in the wake of the deactivation of the Landru supercomputer on Stardate 3176.9 -- and he's mentioned by name as still taking orders from Mahmud al-Khaled as of Stardate 7981.3. Granted, we don't know how he got there ... but he got there.

And as far as a book title for "Vanguard 4" goes, Dayton and I are not ruling out the possibility of a "Verb the Noun" construction ... but our working title doesn't use it. If it's any consolation, though, we're carrying the storm motif forward -- the working title comes from (wait for it) Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Kevin

 

[Sci]

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How's about Brave the Tempest?

 

[Vagabond]

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The storm motif is the best bet.
Thematic resonance.

If you wander into the Wizard of Oz tornado motif I wouldn't be too surprised.
Click your heels three times Dorothy, cause you're not in Kansas anymore.

BTW: finished the book. Nice. Thanks.

A quick question; The Rocinante description sounds alot like a certain Firefly class vessel. True?
Wondering if there was a commentary on windmills there (Cervantes and Firefly fans).
If so, clever connection with that and RUSH.

 

[Masao]

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"Comfort like cold porridge"?
"The dark backward"?
"The abysm of time"?
"What's past is prologue"?
"Strange Bedfellows"?
"Deboshed Fish"?
"Foreheads Villanous Low"?
"Mutinous Winds"?
"Midnight Mushrooms"?

I know:
"Brave new world" (or has that already been used?)

 

[David Mack]

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Vagabond said:
BTW: finished the book. Nice. Thanks.

Um...you're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

A quick question; The Rocinante description sounds alot like a certain Firefly class vessel. True?

Not really, no. Any similarities are coincidental. I based my descriptions of the Rocinante on a spaceship image from an independent source.

If so, clever connection with that and RUSH.

Those, on the other hand, are completely intentional in my books.

 

[JAG]

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Finally found a copy and am looking forward to it.

 

[General Martok]

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I've just started reading the book, but before I get too far into it, I just gotta say - I think this is about the coolest cover I've ever seen on a Trek novel. I love the looming Klingon battlecruiser, taking down the weak terran ship. Q'apla!

 

[David Mack]

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^ Well, I guess we know who General Martok is rooting for in the Vanguard series....

 

[JD]

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I noticed that there is a little bit of something silver on one of the bottom corners, anyone know what that is?

 

[David cgc]

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The port engine of the Klingon ship.