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Due South: "Mountie on the Bounty, Part II"

"Mountie on the Bounty, Part II" (DS 3.13)
Original air date: March 22, 1998
Favorite quote:
RAY: C'mon! I don't like this. They've got a big metal ship, we got this little wooden boat.
SGT. THORN: We have the advantage of surprise!
RAY: But they can see us coming!
FRASER: Ray, imagine yourself at sea. Suddenly you find yourself set upon by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Chicago Police Department in a vessel that is a replica of the H.M.S. Bounty. Wouldn't you be surprised?
RAY...

Due South: "Mountie on the Bounty, Part 2"

"Mountie on the Bounty, Part 2" (DS 3.13)
Original air date: March 22, 1998
Favorite quote:
RAY: C'mon! I don't like this. They've got a big metal ship, we got this little wooden boat.
SGT. THORN: We have the advantage of surprise!
RAY: But they can see us coming!
FRASER: Ray, imagine yourself at sea. Suddenly you find yourself set upon by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Chicago Police Department in a vessel that is a replica of the H.M.S. Bounty. Wouldn't you be surprised?
RAY:...

Storytellers Unplugged for April

"Fiction, History, and Tombstone" is up at Storytellers Unplugged.

a couple of writing related links and a writerly update

janni has a wonderful writing contest on her blog. And you can win a copy of her new novel, Thief Eyes.
Catherynne M. Valente (a.k.a. yuki_onna , she of the Hugo Best Novel nomination, the Norton nomination, the Lambda nomination . . .) is now fiction and poetry editor of Apex Magazine . They'll be open to submissions again in June.
I'm working on this next chunk of A Reckoning of Men and also a Storytellers Unplugged post (since my slot is tomorrow and I missed last month) about Tombstone. It's ...

Corambis mmpb (mass market paperback), plus a tribulation

I should probably mention that Corambis is out in paperback. Official release date, according to Amazon (which knows these things) was March 30, and an alert reader has testified that in this instance free market capitalism is working.


While I'm on the subject of the Doctrine of Labyrinths and publication, an update for everyone who is wondering: I am still trying to get The Virtu back in print. My agent has made the formal request to Ace Books either to reprint it or return the rights to me, ...

one extra thing

This year's Hugo ballot has been announced. Congratulations to all the nominees!

5 things, Spring/Rebirth Holiday Edition

Support rape crisis centers and enter to win an Advance Copy of Red Hood's Revenge, by Jim C. Hines.

The most excellent Jim C. Hines is doing a not-a-raffle to support rape crisis centers.


I've found something that puzzles me utterly about Tefertiller's Earp biography. Both Roberts and Barra (Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends, which I'm reading right now) remark on the fact that Sadie Marcus was Jewish in a well-known-historical-fact way, and since I learn from Barra that Wyatt ...

UBC: Wyatt Earp

Tefertiller, Casey. Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.


First, some criticisms:

Tefertiller is not as good a writer as Roberts; in particular, his paragraph structure and organization are dreadful. And I could do without the occasional sententiousness. He also does not seem to be as good a historian as Roberts. Particularly in discussing Wyatt Earp's life in Kansas (i.e., pre-Tombstone), Tefertiller has a tendency to accept the truthfulness of stories for ...

exhibitions or physical culture symposium? wtf?

So I'm reading Casey Tefertiller's Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), about which I will have things to say in due course, and have reached the chapter on the Sharkey-Fitzsimmons fight, in which Tefertiller quotes George Whitwell Parsons, the indefatigable diarist of Tombstone. And there is something incontrovertibly wrong with this quote.

What Tefertiller says Parsons says is:

Wyatt Earp disliked because of awarding Fitzsimmons Sharkey exhibitions or physical...

Ha bloody ha.

I hate April Fool's jokes--I think because I'm so freaking gullible that I always fall for them and then feel crushingly stupid. I handed someone I like his head on a platter a couple years ago over an April Fool's joke, and I still feel bad about that, because it was a lovely and well-thought out spoof. The moral of the story is, do not tease the Mole, for she has no sense of humor.

It appears, however, that my body did not get this memo, for I just made an appointment to go see the nurse pra...