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OK, one of them. Made the following comment up-post from here:
Should he consent, I'll put his name to it; (he did; I did) but I am ROFLOL.
It is apt. I wrote the early version in HS and College, inspired in part by Dune. And I did have the Maltese Falcon in mind as a background. Firefly had not been invented yet.
OK, one of them. Made the following comment up-post from here:
In trying to describe The January Dancer (especially the cultural mixing), I once described it as "a combination of Dune, Firefly and The Maltese Falcon, as told by an Irish bard in an Indian restaurant."
-- Stevo Darkly
Should he consent, I'll put his name to it; (he did; I did) but I am ROFLOL.
It is apt. I wrote the early version in HS and College, inspired in part by Dune. And I did have the Maltese Falcon in mind as a background. Firefly had not been invented yet.
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-- Stevo Darkly
(Or did you need my real name for some reason?)
I didn't see the Dune association but I kept seeing Donovan as either Sam Spade [portrayed by Bogie, because he's blond in the novel] or Ned Beaumont from The Glass Key.
Rather than Arrakis, I pictured an Instrumentality of Man/Jack Vance hybrid.
JJB