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All I'll say is that in my last post, both sentences are deliberately ambiguous.

That's one way of loooking at it. In any event, Lou and Spike both owe Cray one big-time.

The only stories that I can remember reading online besides dkstories's ongoing Do Over series, is the the David's Initiation trilody, Absolute Convergence (which stopped at 100 chapters, exactly), the Nick and Jonathan series, and the Foley-Mashburn saga (which if I recall correct was about 223 chapters, (and everyone was upset when it ended.) Kiwi's Westpoint Tales I guess has gone well past 100 chapters (While it's been at IOMFATS, it's now at Crvboy, and it's much furtheralong there.) There's also Dewey's Brian and Pete Series (and I usually put Drake's spinoff with it because the timelines -- and often the stories overlapped.)

As Dan given any indication as to where things stand with Let's Do It? While he's mention that Book II of Rich Boy would be ready to begin posting by the end of December, we've not had any indication about Let's Do It, and I thought it would be fair to ask (after nearly four months of silence on the subect).

I don't think Dan has finished with Let's Do It just yet. I have faith that when Dan is ready to post the next chapter, he will.

It will be interesting to see how this develops. Clearly the CIA's intended leaks of information got to the KGB, and the faculty at Moscow State University. And there are hints in this chapter that Davey and Brian do have misgivings about leading Verakov on. Some real life historical points, which I wonder if Dan is going to use or not: Riasa Gorbachev (the late wife of Mikihal) was a professor at Moscow State University during this time period. When Gorbachove became head of the Soviet Communist Party, and President of the Soviet Union, Eduard Shevardnadze became the foriegn minister of the U.S.S>R. After the end of the Soviet Union, he became the first president of the independent Republic of Georgia. Knowing this I start to wonder if Davey and Brian somehow play a role that leads Gorbachov to power. That would be one way of blocking Alexei, and it was Gorbachov whose reforms led to the end of the Soviet Union. As to Svoet/American espionage, it was always an issue in Soveit -era Moscow. All Americans were under the watchful eye of the KGB, and it was virtually impossible for Americans to go anywhere without the KGB knowing about it. Likewise, Soviets in the U/S/ couldn't go anywhere in the U.S. without tje FBI knowing about it; so it worked both ways.

A quick note "legitimate" as used in that will provision would mean "in wedlock," as opposed to "illegitimate," as in "out of wedlock, i.e., a bastard. The way that will provision is written, Worthington would have every reason and motive to try and prevent his cousin from being married to a woman and having a child within the marriage. Now what would happen if the cousin got married to a guy in Massachusetts and then adopted a child would make a very interesting question

I think I can chime in here. In the Trek franchise, I've felt that the best of the lot was actually Deep Space Nine; it told a story over 5 seasons with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Liked Bablyon 5, when I could cach it; syndicated series suffer from the fact tht some station will air new episodes in an inconsisent manner, and oftn it would be hard to know beforehand what the latest time slot the show had been shifted to. Farscape was an excellent show, but it suffered from the same scheduling malaise. Battlestar Galactica is a whole different level of good, however. The T and A is just part of a complex conflict beween Cylon and iman, and the tone of a technological sociey with true gender equality, and how tha plays out is just afascnating side story. All of it is plot driven, and f you havne't watched the second and third seasons, ou are deriving yourself of some real quality story telling. (Bamber in a towel i just soooo good as eye candy. And you have to watch the episode "Exodus" part II for a scene that has been nominated for a special effects Emmy involving the Galactica; it's js jaw dropping. (And the season ending cliffhanger "Crossroads, part II, has to be seen for its last 10 minutes.)

I'm not sure one can say that Shevardnadze (the younger) is not a concern; it occurred to me that sending the gus into Soviet-era Moscow would be based in part on such a concern; or at least whDavey and Brian wanted to get into the cia this time around. I'd also wager that the Chinese time traveler is also a concern. The death of the scientist does not mean hat his work on time travel necessarily diappeared. The Soviets might still know about it, and that would also justify getting into Moscow. My guess is that the ultimate target of interest is still Shevardnadze, getting Davey close to someone in the lae Soviet-era power structure would be one way to go about it. And who is to say that Davey's presence in Moscow at thi point in this timeline influences theevents that bring the Soviet Union to an end?

Like the others, I'm glad for the turnaround from Chapter 16. Oddly enough, the idea of the fall of the Soviet Union was not unheard of during that decade. Around 1979, some academians who studied Soviet society wrote a popular best seller titled "Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?" the book focused on the rise of a technocratic class (not interested in political ideology, and the presence of Moslem populations in much of the area of what become republic is Cntral Asia after the Soviet Union did dissolve, in 1989. I remember picking up the book at a bookstore and reading much of it on the spot. So that one isn't a conveient tool of fiction for the story, the idea was in circulation before Ronald Reagan was ever elected President.

The stroryline called it the Ionian Nebula. Whether that's its actual name, or something the show is just using, I'm not sure. And at the time I posted that I was unaware of the closing effect to the soundtrack with "All About The Watchtower" that ended up zooming on "our' Earth.

I'm enjoying the story, as well. Shades of "Splash in the Water," perhaps?

Rigel, I fully understand that its the Brian from the latest timeline, but that doesn't change the fact that from Davey's perspective, it's the original pre Do-Over timeline.

What I undertand is that this Do Over sent Brian back to the original time line (where Davey departs as an adult to do the first Do Over.

It's my understanding that Daniel eill be doing both of the remaining two HP films. The ladt child actor that I can think of who managed to get a strong acting career going is Christian Bale -- who is filming the second film of the latest incarnation of Batman. But his IMDb entry is lengthy.

DK, I posted a prediction several weeks ago at televisionwithoutpity.com, when SciFi started the promotion big guns about "Maelstrom" that the last scene of this season would have Starbuck returning having found the way to Earth. I still think that is the case. (And wasn't it the TOS Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) that died, and not Apollo (Richard Hatch in TOS)? Even more so, I have never found it coincidental that Glan A. Larson has a producer credit on the SciFi series (as he was a cocreator of TOS).

I just saw this thread, so as a new reader of Dan's writing, let me say that I hope the rest of your recovery from GBS is as swift as the prompt medical attention you got in the first place! I haven't had to deal with a GBS patient, but my sister, who passed away from cancer this past year was also a stroke survivor, and she had problems getting EMS to take her to the emergency room as she had a series of strokes over several months before the stage 4 cancer was discovered. I would say from that experience, Dan, not only are you lucky you got into the emergency room quickly, you're equally liucky that the emergency room staff was on the ball as well!

I came across a link to Dan's part of the GA site (and to the Do Over series) a couple weeks ago, but I did not have a chance to come back to read anything until this past weekend. The primary thing I have been doing for the past several days is read the Do Over series for the first time from the first chapter of Do Over to the second chapter of Let's Do It this evening. (Good thing I was also taping the entire BSG season 3.0 marathon on Monday.) Great series, and I can't wait to see how this plays out.