Larry posted an entry that made me laugh.
I received word that SF REVU (www.sfrevu.com), reviewed two magazines featuring stories of mine in it. For those of you unfamiliar with SF REVU, they’re a web-based publication devoted to SF industry news, reviews, interviews, book plugs, and more. I see them as a smaller, online version of LOCUS.
Does he think that a couple of reviews of magazines that ran a story of his adds a feather to his cap? I get the feeling he thinks this is the equivalent of a credit.
From the review of issue 22 of Jupiter:
Lawrence Dagstine’s “A Virtual Affair” is set more than 300 years in the future. Our narrator is Helen Minton who meets a special man named Vale in a bar. Vale stands for Virtual Animated Living Entity, a holographic person. Vale can touch and be touched and they fall in love at first sight. A romance and marriage ensues.
Because a holograph makes a great partner . . . Presumably, it can’t talk back, or demand a divorce, with child support and alimony?
In “The Invisible Enemy”, Lawrence R. Dagstine gives us a tale set during World War II. Captain Harold Nerwitx is the commander of a U-boat that the Allies have taken from the Germans. Impersonating the enemy, he must not only worry about “friendly fire”, but something even more dangerous.
Sauerkraut?
That is not a review. It is a mention in a review. They said nothing at all about his story. They just mentioned what it was about.
What a maroon.
And what the hell kind of name is Nerwitx ? I swear, I see better names in the viagra ads in my spam mail.
(runs away sobbing)
There, there, Harry. Not everyone understands how hard it is to be a sasquatch . . .
And once again Larry proves that his research consists of anything but facts. Holograms are reflected images of light and therefore intangible. Hey Larry, try using something other then Star Trek as the foundation for your story.
I really wish he WOULD quit using stupidfuckingretarded RANDOM formatting.
His random formatting bugs the hell out of me, too, Alice.
Mike’s right about the reflected light. I remember seeing my first hologram in some museum in London around 1977 or so. It was very cool the way I could put my hand right through the 3D image of the apple.
Not to mention the name ‘Vale’? Oi, that sounds like something out of a very badly written paranormal romance.
For the record Rusty, sauerkraut can be a vicious evil in its own right.
My great uncle Bill was in the Pacific during WWII. The captain of the ship he was on loved sauerkraut, so one day one of the mates was at the fore of the ship negotiating a deal for half their stores for sauerkraut. Little did he know that another person was aft making a similar deal with another ship.
So all the food stores was traded in for sauerkraut. Bill ate sauerkraut for breakfast, lunch and dinner for thirty days. By the time they pulled into port, Bill claim he could “shit through a keyhole at twenty paces.” Needless to say, he hasn’t touched the stuff since.
Strangely enough, I was envisioning something like that, Mike. If the guy in the aft had negotiated for hot dogs, things might have gone differently.
I’m almost afraid to ask, but what did the rest of the crew eat for those 30 days? I suppose disciplinary action entailed cleaning the head?
Louise,
I was thinking it was a reference to Stranger in a Stranger Land, Michael, (I think) Valentine. DOn’t ask me why, but it’s what I thought
And Captain, my apologies, I just spoke with a client who has an even worse name, Anita Glasscock. And yeah, that’s her real name.
Ahh, I sees, Rain.
Thankee, sir! And, oh my! Anita Glasscock? I feel for that lady.
Louise xox
“Vale stands for Virtual Animated Living Entity, a holographic person. Vale can touch and be touched and they fall in love at first sight. A romance and marriage ensues.”
Ah. I’ll frikkin’ laugh it it turns out VALE has a light bee, a hard light drive, or anything else ripped off from Red Dwarf.
Rusty, all of the ship’s food stores had was sauerkraut. That’s all the whole crew ate.
Ouch. I’m not sure which is the faster way to lose 30 lbs. — eat the stuff, or not eat it. You might as well just drink a glass of vinegar.
The story was pure cliche and predictable–and as the reviewer at scifi crowsnet said, “this story was a bit twee” .
However I don’t agree it got better.
But then, as Cuss pointed out, these were not real reviews, merely mentions.
It was a true Daggy story.
Ah, how he never fails to disappoint.
Does Vale have a big H on the forehead, or maybe a V?
I saw a hologram on CNN last night. That was fucking weird.
Yeah, they’re never on TV. Apart from that hologram presenter on Groovy Channel 27.
Oh, funky, groovy Channel 27 …
Oh I’m in fits at that! Forgotten Rimmer saying that until now.
I know! How about a holo virus? What do you think, Mr Flibble?