tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98830422011-11-27T16:03:15.001-08:00A Manga Novel by C. McLean-Campbell Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within meJurrassosaurushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09717952416052376431noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883042.post-69976183077303169712011-05-15T13:12:00.000-07:002011-06-08T07:08:07.863-07:00

When I wrote Heavy Duty my original intention was to publish it on the web and to completely avoid the whole hard copy issue. Well, the web has finally caught up properly and Heavy Duty is now available in Kindle format on Amazon.

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WHO WROTE HEAVY DUTY? Back storyBack in 2003 I asked Chris Struthers to write a short piece called Who is Heavy Duty? This was a method of attempting to compare his synopsis with me. However, Chris idiosyncratically wrote this piece instead and even managed to re-calculate all the dates I had removed on the advice of Systel Publishing. In the late 1970's, perhaps 1978, scientists David

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Chapter three was originally a flashback sequence nearer the middle of the book, but then I realised that it was interfering with the tempo of the story and firstly I wrote it as a complete chapter of flashback - still in the same place. But this didn't work and eventually I had to decide to put the Boukae Chapter near the begining and I was then forced to eliminate all flashbacks and set out the

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In chapter two I have Kimberley Blaimes Allardyce turn up at New Puritan coroporations secret Tokomak in Boukae which has been contaminated with a bio weapon and all the staff are dead. Apart from two security men - Dickson and Cox. These two characters appear much later in the novel as the names on two spacesuits. Dickson and Cox have recovered a breifcase from the Tokamak and Kimberely leaves

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Eventually I decided not to open with Pride waking up, although someone still wakes up in the Prologue, it is the AI known as The Elephant who does the waking (okay - he was never really asleep, just trapped.) I had also decided that I wanted the novel to begin with the first word of the title and to end with the last word - so that he whole adventure was contained within the collapsed Heavy Duty

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Well the story started to develop quite quickly after that. My intention was to fill the story with lots of set dressing and as many samples as I could. A sample is where I take a scene from a famous movie, novel, TV show or possibly even a song and then weave that into the plot. Nothing would be sacred and everything would have to be done on as grand a scale as possible. What I wanted to read

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So the idea started to grow in my mind and as all writers know it begins to take you over, constantly filling your mind with scenarios and tiny snippets of dialogue. "What would happen," Fraser asked, talking in general about VR, "if you woke up in Virtual Reality. Say you fell asleep or it you were still connected to it. How would you know it wasn't real?" "What if you had taken so many drugs

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"And you know what?" I said, but Fraser, good listener that he is knew that it was a rhetorical question intended to help structure my delivery. "You know what, it should have some sort of news bulletin at the start of each chapter to set the scene or some kind of quote from someone really clever but weird... It should be something by...," Fraser looked wondering if I was still going rhetorical.

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A long time ago, Fraser and I were sitting in the Bistro, uncharacteristically drinking and we were talking about disgusting things. "Wouldn't it be really awful if you were giving someone mouth to mouth resucitation and they puked in your mouth?" said Fraser registering his disgust with a sudden grimace."That's heavy duty," I said sharing his disgust but not allowing the emotion to reflect in my

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