Kevin's Watch

Once upon a time many moons ago (15 years ago) I was on a beach in Donegal with a crowd of friends, sitting around a driftwood bonfire (when I go to hell I want to burn in the purple bit), somewhat off my face on vodka and magic mushrooms, and I had a conversation about the TC books with a friend of my sister.

He claimed that the third chronicles had already been written.

Pre-internet, all I could do was ask my local library and bookshop to no avail.

SRD claims Runes is new. Does anyone else doubt this?

I'll answer your question with another question: Why on Earth should he lie?

Stonemaybe wrote:Once upon a time many moons ago (15 years ago) I was on a beach in Donegal with a crowd of friends, sitting around a driftwood bonfire (when I go to hell I want to burn in the purple bit), somewhat off my face on vodka and magic mushrooms, and I had a conversation about the TC books with a friend of my sister.

He claimed that the third chronicles had already been written.

Pre-internet, all I could do was ask my local library and bookshop to no avail.

SRD claims Runes is new. Does anyone else doubt this?

Let me see if I understand the question. You're asking, who do we believe, Stephen R Donaldson or your stoned, drunk friend?

oh how else do conspiracy theories start?

Here's another theory: what if your stoned, drunk friend... had simply been so stoned and drunk he didn't know what he was saying?

Ah, but consider the possible source: SRD was vacationing in Donegal around 1991, he likes vodka and has talked to brothers of women that he is friends with.
Why else would SRD have so much time to play with the GI?

Do you know I think there was a bearded guy in the pub that weekend! If I'd only known it was SRD!

Unfortunately the guy who told me about the 3rd chronicles died about a year later so it's way too late to confirm .

But I've always remembered, because I was so bloody annoyed I couldn't get the books!

When Runes was published it brought it all back.

I've just had an idea - maybe the third chronicles were written in 1991 but were got by a caesure and showed up 2004?

Stonemaybe wrote:Do you know I think there was a bearded guy in the pub that weekend! If I'd only known it was SRD!

Unfortunately the guy who told me about the 3rd chronicles died about a year later so it's way too late to confirm .

L Ron Hubbard died years ago and he's still publishing books.

But isn't he an alien messiah or something? Or are we the aliens and he's the messiah? Was Battlefield Earth the worse film ever made? THAT I'm sure of! Everything else is just hearsay, or perhaps conspiracy theories.

Stonemaybe wrote:But isn't he an alien messiah or something? Or are we the aliens and he's the messiah? Was Battlefield Earth the worse film ever made? THAT I'm sure of! Everything else is just hearsay, or perhaps conspiracy theories.

crap film and even crappier book - L Ron Hubbard was just another yank loon who used religion to make money..... SRD doesnt need money as i'm sure he has made a few dollars from his past tomes..... and believe me if Runes was available in the 90's I would have sold my kids to get a copy.... (sorry kids).....

The inimitable James Nicoll once said about the film Battlefield Earth:

'Its only virtue is that it is of finite length.'

I object, however, to your characterization of Hubbard as 'just another Yank loon'. He was a loon in a class of his own, far loonier than any other Yank, and Yankier than any other loon (for instance, the Rev. Sun Myung Loon), and neither America nor the world at large has yet produced his match.

For this we may count ourselves fortunate.

Hasn't L. Ron hubbard been dead since the '60's? And if not, shouldn't he have been?

Variol Farseer wrote:The inimitable James Nicoll once said about the film Battlefield Earth:

'Its only virtue is that it is of finite length.'

I object, however, to your characterization of Hubbard as 'just another Yank loon'. He was a loon in a class of his own, far loonier than any other Yank, and Yankier than any other loon (for instance, the Rev. Sun Myung Loon), and neither America nor the world at large has yet produced his match.

For this we may count ourselves fortunate.

Amen. Your average, everyday loon didn't shell Mexico during WWII.