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What series would you like to see continue?
Topic Started: Jan 20 2008, 07:25 PM (1,620 Views)
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Mak, this would probably belong more in the silly AH ideas. How about if the crosstime traffic people arrive in an alternate where the laws of physics are different, allowing for time travel? I know, it's really a stretch. :P
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I'd honestly like to see TL-191 continued.

I would also like to see what happens next in the world of Conroy's "1862".
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If HT took a nice good break, and then came back with renewed vigor and enthusiasm for his series, then I wouldn't mind reading new 191 stuff.
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Yeah, In at the Death hasn't been out too terribly long just yet. I would rather read a 191 book written a few years from now than one wirrten immediately, just because I think HT would feel more refreshed after a few years of not dealing with 191.

That being said, I'd love to see Reconstruction in the 50's and just how long it takes for peace to come about. I would also love to see HT draw parallels between OTL tumultuous Sixties and the possible leftover-from-the-50s tumultuousness (that was a pain to type) of the Sixties in 191. How would the Space Race play into things? There are still so many questions that I'd enjoy getting answers to.
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I can't really think of any AH series that left me hanging. All the ones I can think of either had satisfying conclusions or were clearly drawn out well past the shark-jumping stage when they finally end (No I'm not thinking of any one series in particular. *whistles*)

I would like to see LoC continued; now that ItCotCK has come out and I've seen it raised more questions than it asked, and also that they opened yet another new world at the end, I have my hopes. But then I think of that as SF, not AH.

I don't want to see too much ink spilled on Earthside developments but I do want to get a cohesive sketch of what's been going on. Chinese ascendancy began in the mid-late 80s and was a fait accompli by 2000. That and the USSR never fell. And Bob Dole was President. And the EU has broken with the US and is going its own way but is well behind. The Commonwealth, OAS and Japan are all working closely with the US, at least space-wise. There's enough to throw together a short history lesson there.

TSP says the last war was some Arab-Israeli thing, and also that the major Earth-bound military operation these days is run out of Jerusalem. However, ItCotCK says the last war was "the Laotian Crisis."

Mao's death and replacement with Zhou (a little unlikely) was 1956. This despite the promotional material saying "Everything was the same until 1962."

I'd also like to see TL-127 continued, but not lineally; I want to see a series of stories set in the Lizards' pre-Tosevite history, as I believe I recently described somewhere else. You would think that the development of FTL and the transition to interstellar astropolitics would be fertile ground, and it would be especially interesting to observe multiple Earth powers, rivals of one another, exploring the cosmos at the same time; however, my disappointment with HB leaves me hesitant to wish for more down that track. Anyway, Lizard history would count as AH even less than more LoC would.
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Ditto on all the stuff Slade just wrote (though I haven't read the second LoC book, but if it's as good as the first...).

If HT really came up with a clever idea and really put some time and effort, I'd love to see another stand alone in the RB TL. But I hesitate to wish for it since RB is one of my favs and it would be a shame to see it devalued by the presence of a sub-par sequel.

Also, I'd love to see more Videssos books, but we already have a thread for that... :P
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I also feel like the other shoe never quite dropped with the Gerin the Fox books. The way HT emphasized technological change in a fantasy setting I was sure he wouldn't leave things in the Bronze Age.

Also with the Menedemos and Sostratos books, the series ended two or three years before the siege of Rhodes, in which Menedemos saved the island from conquest by one of the Hellenistic kingdoms. I figured we'd get a trip to the Black Sea (with a title like "The New Argonauts" or "The Golden Fleece"), maybe something to the far west (Iberia or Britannia, we've been to Italy even if we never bothered to go as far as that dinky little upstart town Rome), and then end the series with the big war story.
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"though I haven't read the second LoC book, but if it's as good as the first..."

Yes and no. My enjoyment of the two were pretty comparable, but they were very different beasts.

"If HT really came up with a clever idea and really put some time and effort, I'd love to see another stand alone in the RB TL. But I hesitate to wish for it since RB is one of my favs and it would be a shame to see it devalued by the presence of a sub-par sequel."

I loved RB and was sad when I finished it in a way I rarely am at the end of a book. However, based on what it was, I don't really think it's got anywhere else to go without drastically changing the story. Presumably there will still be the crown union when Elizabeth dies (probably more readily accepted by the English than OTL) which eventually leads to the unification of Britain. Sooner or later they will establish colonies across the Atlantic--probably not by 1607, though. The British colonization of the New World proceeds on a slightly delayed schedule, maybe the Spanish shore up their holdings better in that time so that they can holdout longer still, but by the end of RB their empire was showing signsof pretty much the same sort of rot that ruined them OTL. So the farther you push that timeline past its POD, the more I would look for the changes it caused to factor out.

Meanwhile, without the Elizabethan setting and the characters, it would be so much less fun!

"I also feel like the other shoe never quite dropped with the Gerin the Fox books. The way HT emphasized technological change in a fantasy setting I was sure he wouldn't leave things in the Bronze Age."

You know, I'm kind of reminded of the scene in Foundation after Seldon's second pre-recording plays. Salvor Hardin's lacky says "When do you think we'll see the next one?" and Hardin says "I'm sure that by then you and I will be safely dead." As the title of the Gerin the Fox books suggests, that story is about one hero, not a long string of them like Asimov's. Yes the development of the Northlands will continue, but Gerin won't be involved any longer. Presumably it will be a while before either the Empire or Aragis's kingdom will be in position to challenge him again, and the Trokmoi seem pretty pacified especially if they start to understand that Gerin is the shield protecting them from the now-defunct imperial threat. So unless HT pulls another enemy out of his ass, Gerin will probably at last be able to rule in peace for the rest of his life, or at least his prime. There's always the conflict between Durin Rycalf's Grandson (sp?) and Dagref the Whip (some First Foundation v Second Foundation possibilities there) and eventually another external threat will manifest itself (perhaps the former opens the door to the latter) but Gerin won't take a part in that. Foundation is the story of the masses of society, so it continues on through many such permutations; but these books are the story of one individual.
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Yeah, but HT loves condensing masses of change into a single lifetime, even if it strains credibility (see Agent of Byzantium) and he kept on talking about the scarcity of bronze being a limiting factor in the society... he seemed to be aiming us at the iron age revolution.

Speaking of Agent of Byzantium, I'd love more stories set in that TL, but without any new technological breakthroughs while Basil Agyros is still an active agent. Maybe some refinements of the ones already introduced, like people trying to figure out better uses for gunpowder.

I'd also be fine seeing more stories in that timeline that aren't set in the early 14th century.
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I read the one that was in Departures but it didn't really do anything for me.
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That one was my favorite, actually. It dealt with a purely social change rather than a technological development, which was a nice change of pace.

The other stories are more action/thriller/spy genre in nature and deal with what was by the standards of they day bleeding edge high tech. "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire" is the odd man out. Not liking it doesn't necessarily mean you won't like the others, you might want to give the book a look.

Come to think of it there's one other non-political non-spy story in the collection, but it's not much like PoCPoF either.
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*shrug* Eh, maybe.

Come to think of it, Departures also had a Christian Mohammed story. Was that included as a prologue to AoB?
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Yeah, it was written as a PoD for the Agyros stories, though it wasn't included in the AoB collection.
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I would like to see a sequel to Guns of the South maybe set in the early twentieth century just so we could see the butterfly effects of the technological changes. It would make for an interesting steampunk.

Prehaps the development of cars, computers, television, widespread electricity, and airplains comes along earlier in that timeline as well as medical advancments and vaccinations. Maybe it even leads to an earlier WW1 in the 1890's. Or prehaps you could have things completely different in this universe as opposed to TL-191.
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Why would technogical advancement lead to an earlier world war? It's not like world leaders sat around tapping their feet waiting for the Vickers Gun to come out so they could make sure the war was as horrid as possible.
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