27 August: CS Forester Quotes

Born on this date in 1899 was C.S. (Cecil Scott) Forester. Some words of wisdom from him.

1. There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
2. I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
3. Novel writing wrecks homes.
4. A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
5. There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
6. When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
7. The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
8. I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.
9. A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
10. Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

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Over the Rainbow

'We're not in Trinity anymore,' says Leonard Marx, quoting a line from an old Innovian  movie. The moon is different; the planes flying overhead are different. Nobody has any idea where they are or if it's possible to get home. 

In this strange new world, people from the highly technical Innovia and the less advanced Classica must co-operate in order to survive. In addition, travel through the inter-dimensional wormhole has given some people unusual and unexpected powers.

Innovia mourns the loss of its superhero, Power Blaster, last seen carrying a nuclear bomb to the upper atmosphere away from the inhabited Bird Island. They don't believe he could possibly have survived.  Power Blaster has survived, but is close to death and stranded in the new dimension. He is nursed back to health by a Classican woman, Elena. She has no idea who he is, only that she is falling in love with the handsome stranger.  

Shanna sets out to discover what happened to Nathan Tate, who didn't return from his hiking holiday, not knowing her life is about to be turned inside out and upside down. 

Meanwhile, Desi Troyes, the man responsible for the catastrophe, is at large on the new world, plotting how he can transfer his plans for world domination to the planet he now finds himself on - Earth. 

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