I recently wrote a story in which the Hood takes on Tracy Island, simply because the Tracys aren’t there. He conveniently forgets about everyone else on the island simply because they are only there when the plot line suits. Is that true for the rest of the characters? We know very little about them. I think that point is proved by the adaptation for the film – nearly all of…
Of all the women who appear in UFO, none seem to have quite the same ‘lure’ as Gay Ellis. There is a ‘china doll’ prettiness about her that is both appealing and, dare I say it, virginal. Perhaps it is that scene in Identified, (Oh go on – you know EXACTLY which scene I am referring to!) that puts her firmly into the ‘drool’ factor for guys. Even ‘Joanna’ in…
UFO fans may be unaware of the fact that there are numerous alternate UFO universes. In some of these universes (universi?) you might find Ed Straker having sex with a dragon and getting a tattoo, or discovering that he has magical abilities or even, perish the thought, falling in love with a member of his own organisation. Following strenuous searches, and a considerable amount of bribery, over the past months…
Hurt and Comfort. I have a reputation for violence. Well, not real violence. Mine tends to be the written sort. A stabbing in Shepherd Part 2, the odd torture scene in FarSight and Breathless, even an attempted suicide in Surrendered. The whole gamut of blood and gore and pain. It is my style of writing and I make no apologies. If you read my work you will know what I…
After reading Loopstagirl’s fascinating and very informative article on ‘Why Write Thunderbirds’ I decided to take a long hard look at the reasons why I started to write UFO fanfic back in 2009. It’s certainly not for the kudos, or the reviews. It’s not as if there are that many writers either. The number of UFO writers has decreased over the years, and many of them have moved on to…
For someone that doesn’t even remember watching the Thunderbirds on television, I honestly have no idea how I started writing it. A quick explore sent me stumbling into the fandom, and before I knew it, I had fallen victim. Hours upon hours of reading gave me enough of the characteristics of the boys to start to know how people wrote them. Then, of course, it was borrowing the boxset off…
Michael Hornby Billington was born on 24th December 1941 at the Springfield Maternity Home in Blackburn Lancashire. For the first eighteen months of his life, Michael lived at 6 Kelsall Avenue with his older sister, Marilyn, and parents Eric and Helena until the family moved to London. Cinema fascinated the young Michael Billington. Michael not only enjoyed watching every movie he could at the local cinema, musicals being his favourites,…
(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…
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…
Straker’s Age By: An Delen Dir, Lightcudder, Aquaboi, Colin M. Taylor, James Killian, dragon & spousal unit …or a Logical, Canon-Based Early Biography This is the result of several weeks’ worth of diligent, serious research, and two months of careful planning and much brainstorming, some with civilian, but most with official sources. Every basic fact about the US Air Force has been verified to being possible, even if only theoretically….