[UA] (OT) No WoD Gaslight.

[James McGraw]

>>> Dogzilla at btinternet.com 06/13/01 07:24pm >>>
From: "Royal Minister of Stuff" <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] (OT) No WoD Gaslight.
>> Kim Newman?  You don't know how releived I am.  Anyone
>> who would cheerfully set the Dario Argento's Mother of
>> Tears against paparazzi-loving vampires in 50s Rome
>> using a little girl and a Mexican Wrestler
>
>is that "Dracula Cha Cha Cha"? haven't read that one yet. have you read >the
>first in his alternate history/vampire books, Anno Dracula? now there's real
>po-mo victoriana for you. 

I'd just like to second this recommendation, and to heartily recommend Teddy Bear's Picnic, a short story available in the UK in the collection "Unforgivable Stories" and in the US in "Back In The USSA". It's set in an alternate world where America had a Communist revolution in 1917, and Russia became capitalist. This story covers that timeline's Vietnam War. The truly Newmanesque bit, though, is in the heroes: Terry and Bob from the Likely Lads, who join a training camp at Walmington-on-Sea along with fellow recruits Stan Butler and Frank Spencer. It then proceeds to get thoroughly pomo when Bob writes his memoirs, published as It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which then get made into a film in which Bob is played by Rodney Bewes (not Michael Caine as he hoped) and Terry is played by James Bolam.
Actually, I've just realsied that non-UK residents may find this somewhat confusing, so I'll stop now. But trust me, it's great.

james the cat

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a
really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually
change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.  They
really do it.  It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists
are human and change is sometimes painful.  But it happens every day.  I
cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or
religion." 
                -- Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address



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