WARNING -- MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
Skylark DuQuesne
Random Observation
This struck me the other day, and maybe I'm naive for not
noticing it before, but given the
quote
below, and the later date of Skylark DuQuesne, is it
possible that this can be regarded as a self-parody?
Especially given the ending, with evil (more or less)
triumphant? This sort of reminds me of Monsters, the
you-play-the-orc RPG put out by the Tunnels and Trolls folks
(Flying Buffalo Incorporated, I think), or a Chaotic Evil
Dungeons and Dragons campaign I was in very briefly.
Continuity Question
In the section on the last of the Fenachrone, the attack
on the planet of the Fenachrone (does it have a name by the way)
is mentioned as involving sixth-order forces, and Sleemet's
fleet is using a fifth-order cosmic energy drive. However,
the attack on the planet of the Fenachrone only used
fifth-order forces, and Seaton only learned about sixth-order
forces, and the sixth-order cosmic energy drive
after his encounter with the intellectuals and passage
through the fourth dimension, although he had a sixth-order
detector when he destroyed Ravindau. This sure appears
to be a continuity error (with
Skylark Three and
Skylark of Valeron).
I know Skylark DuQuesne was written later (copyright 1965)
than the first three, but still, this seems fairly egregious.
Quotes
Seaton did grin then.
"Well, you've always known that making things bigger
and better is the fondest thing I am of."
-- page 224.
Last read: 9/94.
Parent
Last updated 8/31/95.
Douglas Stuart
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
dastuart@cs.utexas.edu