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"... Eventually of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy - now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.
For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it.
"It's just life," they say."
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Noel Adams
25th of January, 2006. Inspired in vague form, by the above extract from one of my most favourite book series. A dire warning against the abuse of unpractised foreshortening.
For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it.
"It's just life," they say."
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Noel Adams
25th of January, 2006. Inspired in vague form, by the above extract from one of my most favourite book series. A dire warning against the abuse of unpractised foreshortening.
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The two alien races in the extract mentioned above. Basically, they were engaged in tense negotiations, and just as the Vl'Hurg leader challenged the G'Gugvuntt leader to take back what it had said about his mother, the words "I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle" drifted across the table purely by chance.
Unfortunately, this sentence is a most terrible insult in the Vl'Hurg language, so the only option was terrible, galaxy-decimating war.
Unfortunately, this sentence is a most terrible insult in the Vl'Hurg language, so the only option was terrible, galaxy-decimating war.
I may be attaching an exxagerated fondness to them seeing as how they were pretty much the first books I read for the sheer Hell of it, and thus got me really into the written word. We'll see how much I owe to the late, great Douglas Adams (and Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde too, come to think of it) once the novel's finished.
I don't see any unnecessary exaggaration here! I'm similar with my Dragonlance collection I love them so much that i refuse to download and read them in english. (only 30 or so have translated into finnish, which is only a fraction. i own them all!) I consider them as the first proper books i read from my own free will. So is your novel similar in terms of humour as Adams' or Pratchetts? Shame that Pratchett is in so bad state... World loses another genius there.
It's not, really. The work of Adams and Pratchett is rife with humour, to the point where it's ingrained in the very text. LHatWT, on the other hand, is played much more straight, and I do sometimes worry if it's maybe a bit too stiff and formal.
And then of course, there's the fact that H2G2 and Discworld are actually worth reading.
And then of course, there's the fact that H2G2 and Discworld are actually worth reading.
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