I just realized I hadn't posted this yet. Sorry about that.
As with the story, discussion elsewhere, please...
Legend of Galactic Girls: Concordance
References about Fenspace itself are not detailed here. Please consult the Fenspace Wiki for obscure details about the setting.
Knowledgable readers may have noticed the chapter naming convention I've used for this story: all of the titles are variations of anime titles. The overall
title, Legend of Galactic Girls, plays off of the old series
Legend of Galactic Heroes
.
Prologue
Sangnoir of the Universe
A play off of Stellvia of
the Universe, the translated full name of the anime Stellvia.
"Don't tell me you've heard of me?"
"We've heard of you."
"I asked you not to tell me that."
This is a variation of one of the stock exchanges from the 1960s-era spy spoof Get Smart.
"... when one of our universe's authors combined the concept with quantum mechanics' lack of a privileged frame of reference, he realized that
everyone is fictional in some other reality somewhere."
Specifically Robert A. Heinlein, in his novel The Number of the Beast. (Or, at least,
that's where I first saw the concept.)
Oh, wonderful - not again
See Drunkard's Walk X for the first instance of Doug learning he's a character in a
story.
the International Strike Teams
According to Bob's website, this is the
original name of the International Super Teams from GURPS I.S.T. (You learned it here first:
Noah's a gamer geek.) Noah's checking to make sure Doug really is Doug, and not some other cross-world traveler pretending to be The Loon -- or, worse
yet, the evil-reflection "Prateorian Doug", metahuman enforcer for his homeworld's Music And Film Industry Associations, that may or may not
exist somewhere out there.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said, "Huh?"
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
- attributed to Robert Benchley
When I regained consciousness,
This is a recurring bit from Dave Broadfoot's stories of his character Sgt. Renfrew of the RCMP,
as told irregularly on the Royal Canadian Air Farce radio show in Canada in
the 1980s.
Mr. Broadfoot told the Renfrew stories as first-person-viewpoint tales. Often, but no more than once per story, "Renfrew" would recount doing
something unbelievably stupid and completely avoidable (like jumping out a window in order to land on his horse without checking that the horse was still
there, or reading a waitress' nametag and asking what the other one's called.) The very next line of the story always began "When I regained
consciousness, ..."
As for how Doug learned about Sgt. Renfrew, perhaps one of his quiet untold stops was in an analogue of 1980s Canada?
That's the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
A pulp-culture reference that's become mainstream, The $64,000 Question was a television
quiz show in the 1950s.
I thought of Maggie for a moment, and smiled. "When I'm away, I write home every day."
"And the next line," added Noah.
"... And when I'm away, I'll write home every day,
And I'll send all my loving to you."
- From All My Loving, by The
Beatles, written by Lennon/McCartney, copyright 1963 Northern Songs.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
As with the story, discussion elsewhere, please...
Legend of Galactic Girls: Concordance
References about Fenspace itself are not detailed here. Please consult the Fenspace Wiki for obscure details about the setting.
Knowledgable readers may have noticed the chapter naming convention I've used for this story: all of the titles are variations of anime titles. The overall
title, Legend of Galactic Girls, plays off of the old series
Legend of Galactic Heroes
.
Prologue
Sangnoir of the Universe
A play off of Stellvia of
the Universe, the translated full name of the anime Stellvia.
"Don't tell me you've heard of me?"
"We've heard of you."
"I asked you not to tell me that."
This is a variation of one of the stock exchanges from the 1960s-era spy spoof Get Smart.
"... when one of our universe's authors combined the concept with quantum mechanics' lack of a privileged frame of reference, he realized that
everyone is fictional in some other reality somewhere."
Specifically Robert A. Heinlein, in his novel The Number of the Beast. (Or, at least,
that's where I first saw the concept.)
Oh, wonderful - not again
See Drunkard's Walk X for the first instance of Doug learning he's a character in a
story.
the International Strike Teams
According to Bob's website, this is the
original name of the International Super Teams from GURPS I.S.T. (You learned it here first:
Noah's a gamer geek.) Noah's checking to make sure Doug really is Doug, and not some other cross-world traveler pretending to be The Loon -- or, worse
yet, the evil-reflection "Prateorian Doug", metahuman enforcer for his homeworld's Music And Film Industry Associations, that may or may not
exist somewhere out there.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said, "Huh?"
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
- attributed to Robert Benchley
When I regained consciousness,
This is a recurring bit from Dave Broadfoot's stories of his character Sgt. Renfrew of the RCMP,
as told irregularly on the Royal Canadian Air Farce radio show in Canada in
the 1980s.
Mr. Broadfoot told the Renfrew stories as first-person-viewpoint tales. Often, but no more than once per story, "Renfrew" would recount doing
something unbelievably stupid and completely avoidable (like jumping out a window in order to land on his horse without checking that the horse was still
there, or reading a waitress' nametag and asking what the other one's called.) The very next line of the story always began "When I regained
consciousness, ..."
As for how Doug learned about Sgt. Renfrew, perhaps one of his quiet untold stops was in an analogue of 1980s Canada?
That's the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
A pulp-culture reference that's become mainstream, The $64,000 Question was a television
quiz show in the 1950s.
I thought of Maggie for a moment, and smiled. "When I'm away, I write home every day."
"And the next line," added Noah.
"... And when I'm away, I'll write home every day,
And I'll send all my loving to you."
- From All My Loving, by The
Beatles, written by Lennon/McCartney, copyright 1963 Northern Songs.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012