reading your inner monologue is a curious pleasure 😄 the Bond film comparisons are such a homage ...it shows a deep love of the works and also you weave it into your other dimension themes so well... OF COURSE theyve got bond films in other dimensions. the sun also rises there i suspect. i know you have a lot more of this Katy world written and or intended to be written. my love.of a ripping yarn would like to see a big chunk of it as a book. there are lots if small chunks of it here and there showcasing some of your ideas but I am tantalised.
It's interesting you say you'd like to see her parallel world life as a book because that was my original intention when she popped into my head fully formed. It's a kind of curious magic that does incline me to believe that she and her world really is real, and I am simply connected to it somehow and sort of channelling her, in a way - it gets really weird sometimes, especially as some of her biography did just suddenly appear in my mind, and then when I later did some research on the Internet it turned out that all those connections were completely true. Seriously uncanny.
So the basic history of this is that she popped into my head around the end of 2012, and since then I have a massive outline of some 250k words. That outline alone is like 3 or 4 books. I also have the outline of the series about her which is 21 books in total. I knew it would be almost impossible to write, though, because in order to get all the detail I'd have to do actual physical travel research, to libraries/archives and such like, because a lot of it isn't available on the Internet (other option is that I make it up, which isn't really fair). This is because in that world her story really starts in 1989. So instead I thought, well, what would happen if she genuinely showed up in this world (after all of that back story) in the present day, sort of thing. Now that story is far easier to write because of the wealth of information available on the Internet about the present day. It also allows me to be totally postmodern of course, like a character turning up in the real world.
Anyway - yeah, I have wanted to do little chunks of that parallel world backstory and my original intention was these would be included in the 'behind the scenes' extras. We'll have to see. I certainly have enough notes for it, anyhow.
This mini-series now reminds me of Matt Haig's novel 'The Humans'. Or a female version of 'The Man Who... Fell to Earth' (rather than... 'Mistook His Wife For a Hat' 🤔).
I looked the book up (I had a little work to do first - ironically it was about evaluating a machine translation. Like, yeah, I've got a job for you, Evie - how do you feel about helping us improve a machine so it can take away your job? Oh, well, now you mention it I'd absolutely love to make myself obsolete, by Jove of course I effing would).
There's an extract on the author's website, which is the first 200 words or so. I was immediately subvocalising the voice of the Hitchhikers' Guide. That's about all I need to say at the moment. If that opening is anything to go by it strikes me as a very English middle-class thing. Like, I wonder what an alien would think if, rather than ending up in some middle-class English neighbourhood (as if that in any way represents humanity), it ended up in some bombed out fucking hellhole in Gaza surrounded by snipered dead children and their mothers.
Yeah, see, I guess I have different observations to make about the residents of this planet. Not wanting to give you any spoilers but Katrina will be making the same, inevitable conclusions, and that's going to lead to a new key narrative question, namely 'Should she continue to give a fuck?' Then there's the subquestion - 'Choice: should she just be selfish and stop caring, or should she accelerate the Rapture and put the fuckers out of their misery?'.
You'll be pleased to know I haven't fully decided the detailed answer to those questions yet. At the moment in the narrative you are encountering the earlier version before she's had enough to time to make her full analysis report, as it were. Naturally, if she chooses not to give a shit and starts acting selfishly then at least she'd be protected, because the bad guys/cabal wouldn't be threatened by her. So maybe she'll just pretend not to care. Hmm.
Actually, after my little short break just then (amongst my other talents is drain-clearing, believe it or not), I am reminded of a further irony about your comment, especially now I know what that book's about. But more so your mention of the Bowie classic. This is because one of the movies which Katrina made (she wrote it as well as starred in it) was one of her Russian ones, which is called 'The Visitors', in which a (non-physical) alien lifeform takes possession of a human (female - she was in her late twenties at this time) in Moscow and experiences what it's like to be human. Before you start thinking this is derivative it's not, because it was actually a conscious and deliberate homage to both 'The man who fell to earth' and Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Obviously her version is a lot darker than I imagine this book you mentioned. In that sort of typically morose classic Russian manner. I have a basic outline of it so I guess I'll have to transcribe it at some point.
reading your inner monologue is a curious pleasure 😄 the Bond film comparisons are such a homage ...it shows a deep love of the works and also you weave it into your other dimension themes so well... OF COURSE theyve got bond films in other dimensions. the sun also rises there i suspect. i know you have a lot more of this Katy world written and or intended to be written. my love.of a ripping yarn would like to see a big chunk of it as a book. there are lots if small chunks of it here and there showcasing some of your ideas but I am tantalised.
It's interesting you say you'd like to see her parallel world life as a book because that was my original intention when she popped into my head fully formed. It's a kind of curious magic that does incline me to believe that she and her world really is real, and I am simply connected to it somehow and sort of channelling her, in a way - it gets really weird sometimes, especially as some of her biography did just suddenly appear in my mind, and then when I later did some research on the Internet it turned out that all those connections were completely true. Seriously uncanny.
So the basic history of this is that she popped into my head around the end of 2012, and since then I have a massive outline of some 250k words. That outline alone is like 3 or 4 books. I also have the outline of the series about her which is 21 books in total. I knew it would be almost impossible to write, though, because in order to get all the detail I'd have to do actual physical travel research, to libraries/archives and such like, because a lot of it isn't available on the Internet (other option is that I make it up, which isn't really fair). This is because in that world her story really starts in 1989. So instead I thought, well, what would happen if she genuinely showed up in this world (after all of that back story) in the present day, sort of thing. Now that story is far easier to write because of the wealth of information available on the Internet about the present day. It also allows me to be totally postmodern of course, like a character turning up in the real world.
Anyway - yeah, I have wanted to do little chunks of that parallel world backstory and my original intention was these would be included in the 'behind the scenes' extras. We'll have to see. I certainly have enough notes for it, anyhow.
it sounds amazing... and daunting... but theres only one way to eat an elephant.....one mouthful at a time!
This mini-series now reminds me of Matt Haig's novel 'The Humans'. Or a female version of 'The Man Who... Fell to Earth' (rather than... 'Mistook His Wife For a Hat' 🤔).
I will have to look that book up then I guess. Never heard of it before. Mind you, I haven’t exactly read any books for years.
I looked the book up (I had a little work to do first - ironically it was about evaluating a machine translation. Like, yeah, I've got a job for you, Evie - how do you feel about helping us improve a machine so it can take away your job? Oh, well, now you mention it I'd absolutely love to make myself obsolete, by Jove of course I effing would).
There's an extract on the author's website, which is the first 200 words or so. I was immediately subvocalising the voice of the Hitchhikers' Guide. That's about all I need to say at the moment. If that opening is anything to go by it strikes me as a very English middle-class thing. Like, I wonder what an alien would think if, rather than ending up in some middle-class English neighbourhood (as if that in any way represents humanity), it ended up in some bombed out fucking hellhole in Gaza surrounded by snipered dead children and their mothers.
Yeah, see, I guess I have different observations to make about the residents of this planet. Not wanting to give you any spoilers but Katrina will be making the same, inevitable conclusions, and that's going to lead to a new key narrative question, namely 'Should she continue to give a fuck?' Then there's the subquestion - 'Choice: should she just be selfish and stop caring, or should she accelerate the Rapture and put the fuckers out of their misery?'.
You'll be pleased to know I haven't fully decided the detailed answer to those questions yet. At the moment in the narrative you are encountering the earlier version before she's had enough to time to make her full analysis report, as it were. Naturally, if she chooses not to give a shit and starts acting selfishly then at least she'd be protected, because the bad guys/cabal wouldn't be threatened by her. So maybe she'll just pretend not to care. Hmm.
Actually, after my little short break just then (amongst my other talents is drain-clearing, believe it or not), I am reminded of a further irony about your comment, especially now I know what that book's about. But more so your mention of the Bowie classic. This is because one of the movies which Katrina made (she wrote it as well as starred in it) was one of her Russian ones, which is called 'The Visitors', in which a (non-physical) alien lifeform takes possession of a human (female - she was in her late twenties at this time) in Moscow and experiences what it's like to be human. Before you start thinking this is derivative it's not, because it was actually a conscious and deliberate homage to both 'The man who fell to earth' and Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Obviously her version is a lot darker than I imagine this book you mentioned. In that sort of typically morose classic Russian manner. I have a basic outline of it so I guess I'll have to transcribe it at some point.