Re: Tuckerized at last!

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:25:19 GMT, ames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew
Stephenson) wrote:

>The only Tuckerisation (hrm, sounds like a fabric treatment) I am
>aware of having undergone was at the hands of John Brosnan in his
>"Skyship" (IIRC): I was an engineer, murdered by the villain then
>thrown from an airship at great altitude. That was for supplying
>John with a few ideas for the control system and such. ISTR Dave
>Langford -- you there, Dave? -- was involved, too. (Happy days.)

Yes, I was the chief engineer in the same book and was allowed to make a
major engineering diagnosis concerning that nuclear-powered airship's
problems: "Bullet holes."

Simon R. Green killed me off at least twice in his Deathstalker series. The
"acerbic social columnist Dee Langford, purveyor of unsuspected truths and
assassin of reputations" has barely been introduced before perishing in a
firefight. In another Green epic, "DeLangford's head exploded ..."

Dave
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