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Across The Straits Of Mercy, complete!

Postby Peter » Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:42 pm

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Re: Teaser...

Postby Nora » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:05 pm

terragen?
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Re: Teaser...

Postby Peter » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:22 pm

terragen?
As with all my other visualisations of Glory, yes. Terragen Classic, to be precise, plus some extra stuff using Picasa and Photoshop. Terragen 2 lacks sculpting tools but is otherwise very cool.
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Re: Teaser...

Postby Peter » Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:45 am

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Re: Teaser...

Postby zemarl » Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:39 pm

:love: please sir, i want some more!
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Re: Across The Straits Of Mercy, complete!

Postby zemarl » Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:07 am

:shock:









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Re: Across The Straits Of Mercy, complete!

Postby Anoria » Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:51 am

If you cared at all about your readers, Peter, you would be offering to furnish the costs of transportation so we can each go give our significant others a very large, long hug upon finishing this.

In other words, thank you for writing and sharing yet another beautiful tale. The pacing of this one was especially good, and even though the outcome was inevitable (I'd been told it was sad, and really what else could have happened), the telling was still suspenseful and deeply involving and... I am in awe.
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Re: Across The Straits Of Mercy, complete!

Postby bee » Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:01 am

So, I've never actually read any of these that you post, Peter, because I'm never sure if they're part of a sequence or if there's a particular place I should start or something. Is there a starting point or can I just read anything in any order?
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Re: Across The Straits Of Mercy, complete!

Postby Peter » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:55 am

Before anything else, let me express my gratitude to Ronni and Celerity for their help in beta-reading this story. They helped me avoid one or two mis-steps.

Thanks for your kind words, Dawn and Zem. Remember that you should trust the story, not the storyteller. "In my beginning is my end" - you were indeed warned... A writer must let the tale guide him where it will and readers just have to take the collateral damage sometimes. Especially, in this case, if they're involved - as I have been - in long-distance relationships.

Bee - the tales of Glory aren't as tightly sequenced as the main line of my HDM fics, so you can be fairly loose when it comes to reading order. However, you shouldn't read The Guiding Star or The Phantom of the Archipelago before The Tides of Glory as they are an ongoing narrative about the McLuskie family. You could read Joy to the World or Castaway or A Child of Glory at any time, but I suggest you leave off Guardians of Glory and Never a War as, apart from anything else, they are still works in progress. The present tale is standalone so you can read it right now if you like. :)

Me, I think you should start with Tides, mainly because it's a favourite of mine.

Coming this Spring - Tank Five, which is another Emmy McLuskie story.
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