You may have noticed I have been quiet lately. I've spent my free time completing a full revision of a novel I wrote in the nineties - THE WHITE ZULU: Being a...
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tvag@...
tvag@att.net
Feb 11, 2012 11:24 pm
Sounds seriously intriguing, to me! Is a certain Brother Bagshot involved here? Or a Gent called Pilkington? Or just another Lithium nightmare featuring...
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John Carroll
johntheofm
Feb 12, 2012 12:57 am
Flashmanv makes an enigmatic reference to a Welshman in a top hat leading an impi of Zulus. Flashman's books are serious books. To:...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Feb 12, 2012 4:59 am
 I wrote the original draft in the 90s. Too Flashman-like, and a bit turgid in places when I look back on it. This is an entirely revised version, based on...
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Preziosia@...
d015349c
Feb 12, 2012 1:23 pm
Sounds interesting, please keep us updated....
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James Manto
bloodandchiv...
Feb 13, 2012 11:31 am
So you've totally written the book I've been wanting all these years! I'll buy one of the limited print run. A more grown up 'Mad Misadventures' would be a...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Feb 13, 2012 5:13 pm
Indeed, "A more grown up Mad Misadventures" is a good characterisation. The scheme is for John Curry to show it to an agent in the wider world of commercial...
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John Carroll
johntheofm
Feb 13, 2012 5:33 pm
I don't think that Flashman could have dragged Lt. Carey's name through the mud any better than Lt. Carey managed to himself! 8^) OFM...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Feb 13, 2012 5:50 pm
Has anyone read Don Featherstone's "Captain Carey's Blunder" about the Prince Imperial affair? H I do all my own stunts ... From: John Carroll...
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John Carroll
johntheofm
Feb 13, 2012 5:53 pm
I think I got my version from Farwell. To: ScienceVersusPluck@... From: professorbellbuckle@... Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:50:47 -0800 Subject:...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Feb 13, 2012 6:26 pm
Don told me over a beer that he made some minor adjusments to the end of the tale to make it more fitting. But, since Don's still with us, I won't say what. H ...
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tvag@...
tvag@att.net
Feb 13, 2012 6:36 pm
OFM! Could not agree with you more about that damned fool, Carey. But you must admit, such precipitous flight by all attendees at the informal massacre the...
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John Carroll
johntheofm
Feb 13, 2012 6:46 pm
Carey was like Flashman in that he escaped from the massacre. Whether he could have rescued the Prince Imperial or not is irrelevant. The main difference...
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tvag@...
tvag@att.net
Feb 13, 2012 6:57 pm
Well said, Sir! Aye, Flashy would have found a way to crawl under the dead horse of some real hero and take the same sort of credit he did coming out of Kabul,...
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James Manto
bloodandchiv...
Feb 13, 2012 11:16 pm
My point is though that it is a typically Victorian disaster and I could see a plot that has Flashy in it, advising Carey (badly, because he's distracted by...
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John Carroll
johntheofm
Feb 13, 2012 11:46 pm
If only there were jet travel in the late 1800s, GMF could have inviolved Flashy in so many more disasters. OFM...
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tvag@...
tvag@att.net
Feb 14, 2012 12:06 am
Oh, I don't know. I think Flashman was in quite enough catastrophes, and it's the ones we will apparently never read of that are the ones I'll rue the...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Feb 14, 2012 2:06 pm
The whole "Getting from one diaster to another" thing is interesting. In an earlier draft of 'The White Zulu' I had a section in which our hero, Colonel...
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James Manto
bloodandchiv...
Feb 15, 2012 2:16 pm
Too bad. Perhaps in a later Bagshot novel. I hope this comes to print. I'll buy a copy (if only because I don't have a tablet and hate reading on the...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Feb 27, 2012 5:08 am
Coming very soon from my good friends at Brigade games/Rattrap Productions is my own very foolish and wildly inaccurate set of rules for African big game...
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David Veasey
greatwhitezulu
Feb 27, 2012 5:35 am
Looking forward to this. I used to play it quite a bit : ) From: ScienceVersusPluck@... [mailto:ScienceVersusPluck@...] On Behalf Of...
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Steve Ellis
chiller1064
Feb 27, 2012 9:15 pm
Howard, Will there be a PDF version as well? Steve To: astounding-tales@...; scienceversuspluck@...; combat-alien-suns@... ...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Feb 27, 2012 9:31 pm
Not that I know of. It's a $10 set, after all. H I do all my own stunts ... From: Steve Ellis <chiller1064@...> Subject: RE: [ScienceVersusPluck] "The...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Mar 5, 2012 2:19 pm
Those of you who know me from HMGS conventions may know it's a tradition of mine to make some extra scenery and sell it. I prefer to offer it to to discerning...
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Preziosia@...
d015349c
Mar 10, 2012 7:23 pm
Sikh War Book Update March 10, 2012 It’s been almost five months since my last update, so I thought I would fill you in on what’s happened and what...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Apr 5, 2012 4:15 pm
I've been neglecting my friends on this group - well, several groups - so I thought I'd bring you up to date on what I've been up to. As many of you know, last...
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Preziosia@...
d015349c
Apr 7, 2012 1:31 pm
Yaaaawn...that's nice! All kidding aside, your reports read much like the ones I submit to Patrick, TMP and elsewhere, "Honest, I would have gotten that done,...
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Preziosia@...
d015349c
Apr 11, 2012 5:33 pm
Gentlefolk, Just letting you know that the final Beta playtest copy was sent out to a volunteer last week so he can give it a run-through for any final...
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Preziosia@...
d015349c
Apr 11, 2012 5:42 pm
Gentlefolk, I just received this game the other day and I am VERY impressed. The graphics presentation and components are first rate and the rules are ...
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Howard Whitehouse
professorbel...
Apr 11, 2012 9:39 pm
I thought you were about to tell us that the result was in, and the Germans had won. Â I knew that already. Â H I do all my own stunts ... From:...
