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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 819496" data-attributes="member: 6929"><p>SnowCrash! How could I forget that? Everybody listens to Reason.</p><p></p><p>And jonrog1 - British SF is probably so good because the English are more technological than most give them credit for. </p><p></p><p>They were the world leaders in jet propulsion until their planes started dissolving in midair - they made the scematics public to attempt to discover the cause, and (after they discovered metal microfracture fatigue) the superior industrial base of the USA (and other places) was able to catch up.</p><p></p><p>Then there's the energy shielding they've developed for tanks recently. But just to throw that into doubt, my father (when he was an officer in our New Zealand army twenty-three years ago) heard rumours about British armour technology that sounded strangely familiar... he's only mentioned them now because I read about that energy shielding in the paper, so I'm not breaking any treaty agreements by posting this.</p><p></p><p>And of course there's a thriving comic industry over there. 2000AD is fairly recent compared to what I was raised on... Eagle comics from the 1950s (my father's). Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future! That was great - beautiful art, plots that would still be good today, a healthy dose of Biggles sensibility.</p><p></p><p>Aha! Another idea for source material arises. <strong>Biggles</strong>, by Captain W. E. Johns. Eighty-odd titles by the Captain, a few more by others, and a bad movie that you shouldn't watch because it's not Biggles. Other than that it's not a particularly bad movie. Biggles is not just about derring-do in fighter planes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 819496, member: 6929"] SnowCrash! How could I forget that? Everybody listens to Reason. And jonrog1 - British SF is probably so good because the English are more technological than most give them credit for. They were the world leaders in jet propulsion until their planes started dissolving in midair - they made the scematics public to attempt to discover the cause, and (after they discovered metal microfracture fatigue) the superior industrial base of the USA (and other places) was able to catch up. Then there's the energy shielding they've developed for tanks recently. But just to throw that into doubt, my father (when he was an officer in our New Zealand army twenty-three years ago) heard rumours about British armour technology that sounded strangely familiar... he's only mentioned them now because I read about that energy shielding in the paper, so I'm not breaking any treaty agreements by posting this. And of course there's a thriving comic industry over there. 2000AD is fairly recent compared to what I was raised on... Eagle comics from the 1950s (my father's). Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future! That was great - beautiful art, plots that would still be good today, a healthy dose of Biggles sensibility. Aha! Another idea for source material arises. [b]Biggles[/b], by Captain W. E. Johns. Eighty-odd titles by the Captain, a few more by others, and a bad movie that you shouldn't watch because it's not Biggles. Other than that it's not a particularly bad movie. Biggles is not just about derring-do in fighter planes. [/QUOTE]
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