Chapter 22 ‘TW3 1QL’ Rebecca called to the driver of the big saloon car as she slid into the rear seat beside Sara. Alec Freeman was strapping himself into the front seat even as the car set off, wheels skidding on the loose gravel of the executives’ parking area. The driver punched the postcode into the satnav even as he was pushing the car through its gears, forcing it into…
(aka: The Memetic Mutation of Alec Freeman!) Alec Freeman has had a pretty rough deal at the hands of authors in the past. A considerable amount of the fanfic that has been written seems to have dragged the character of Freeman away from the man who was portrayed by George Sewell, and more often than not all that we are left with is a thin and almost comical shadow of…
Chapter 19 – Friday am A Studio tour was just setting off from the main reception area as Alec Freeman headed out to meet Sara and Miss Steel, having asked Max to come and show the men some of the work that was done in the construction areas. The group stood aside, watching with some amusement as the coach load of pensioners on a day trip followed their guide like…
Prologue November 2010 Moonlight in Moscow. So typical. The band, slightly out of tune, more than slightly drunk, and not caring in the slightest one way or another, thrashed out the ubiquitous melody, more for the sake of attracting any stray foreign tourist than any real love of the melody. The hotel he was staying in was too busy, too prominent for a meeting such as this. Any suspicious activity,…
The book was dog-eared and somewhat tatty round the edges, its fine leather cover battered and creased from having been stuffed into small cases. The dark material gave no clues to the secrets that might be contained within its pages. Unlined sheets of creamy paper, the odd one turned over at the corner. Just a book; unremarkable, unexceptional. And unnoticed. Until now. In silence the pages were turned. In silence…
‘The Things We Never Say’ is a very painful story to read, especially for those readers who like to see our much-loved Commander Straker as the dashing and perfect hero. It’s a companion story to the article ‘Mary’s Place, or Who is to Blame’ and as such takes the reader into a world that has a flawed Commander at its helm. The story, which is a brief ‘One Hour’ account,…
Sub-Smash I was going to continue my exploration of Ed Straker by working through the episodes. However, the wiki ‘Time line of UFO’ continues to develop and some episodes still need to be slotted into place. So, as there is a strong ‘Sub-Smash’ theme to this issue of the Herald, I thought it would be appropriate to take a detailed look at the one episode where we see the Commander…
Chapter 16 – Friday early am ‘So, tell me,’ Sara murmured drowsy with sleep, her head on Alec’s shoulder, her short hair tickling his shoulder and neck, ‘could your friend have had a twin brother?’ ‘Twin? I don’t think so, why?’ Alec pulled her closer, the fingers of one hand exploring her spine, intent on distracting her. ‘Hmm….’ she sighed with pleasure as his other hand cupped her breast, finger…
When I started reading fanfic, not all that long ago, I tended to steer clear of ‘slash.’ Not because I thought it was ‘drek’ or ‘smut’ as some people are wont to describe it, but simply because the vast majority of the ‘slash’ that I found in the UFO fandom was, to be honest, not worth reading. It was usually poorly written, with virtually no attention to the characters and…
Well. To be honest I was so MAD when I read this story for the first time. Why? Because An Delen Dir had set the Challenge and I had planned my story. Straker and Freeman in Moscow and Straker gets kidnapped. Then I read this story from dragon. Sigh. So it was back to the drawing board. And one other thing annoys me about this story – dragon writes in…