Clerk’s Log, MJDate 54799.5: “Double Trouble” has come and gone, and both The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant and Digital Magic made it into Amazon.com’s top 100 titles, as well as the top 5 in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Both titles are still for sale, of course, so even if you weren’t there for the promotion, let me encourage you to purchase the books; they’re great reading.
Today, after a change of hosts and a site rebuild, we continue our coverage of TPRT — demonstrating that, although Mr. Morris has experienced various setbacks in keeping to a regular schedule, he does not by any means hold the record.
Last time, we considered the audio presentation of Chasing the Bard, by Philippa “The Dark Goddess” Ballantine; today we look at a landmark work by her Double Trouble colleague, Tee “The Uber-Nemesis” Morris.1
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- Since both of their stories have roots in specific eras of Earth’s history, the alert reader may ask why they are presented in the order you see here. Here are three reasons:
• Like most Virginians, I was brought up on the principle “Ladies first.”
• I wanted to write about Chasing the Bard while it was still in production. (It has since reached the end of its run.)
• While Tee’s story would have been somewhat different if set in the reign of a different English monarch within the era of privateering — in fact, I’d be curious to see how Capt. Rafton and Elizabeth I might have gotten along — Pip’s would have been impossible without its Bard, William Shakespeare.
Thus, although the two ran a photo-finish race, Pip’s story was judged the more specifically historical. (Should we say, “Points awarded for degree of difficulty”?) [↩]
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