British warlocks vs Nazi superpeople

[sergebroom]

I attended a meeting of the Albuquerque SF Society. It had been over 6 years since I had attended, and I'm glad I went. The guest speaker was Ian Tregellis, a local writer who I understand has stories in the new Wild Cards anthologies. He read the prologue of his trilogy, which is an unapologetically pulpy Secret History of the 20th Century, with British warlocks duking it out with Nazi superpowered beings. It sounded really neat, and, the very few times I spoke(*), I think I managed to ask relatively non-embarassing questions. Alas I'll have to wait until next year before Tor publishes the first book, which was edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

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(*) I, of the famed prolixity? Indeed, for the dynamics of a flesh-world situation are quite different from those of the blogosphere.

Comments

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Well, which will be edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, when he gets his act together; right now his work queue looks like thirteen elephants trying to get through a single narrow door all at once.

I knew just from your headline what your post had to be about, though. My only thought was "How does Serge know about Ian's book?"

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

How does Serge know about Ian's book?

"Vee hav vayz to make authors talk."

That being said, no matter when you finally can edit it, I am looking forward to reading it.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I now have an image of an exploding doorway stuck in my head!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for coming to the meeting and making me feel so welcome! I don't think nobody embarrassed themselves with their questions. The author, on the other hand, no doubt sounded foolish while trying to answer so many intelligent questions...

Ian

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Not at all. And may I say that you were a wonderful reader of your story?

[(Anonymous)]

And may I say that you were a wonderful reader of your story?

Thank you very much! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it.

Ugh.

[(Anonymous)]

And by "I don't think nobody", I of course meant, "I don't think anybody".

This writing thing? Yeah, it's sure to work out for me... :)

Ian

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my gosh, his trilogy sounds awesome! I'll have to watch for those books!

M

[mkhobson.livejournal.com]

That was me. (Eyeroll)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but the Nazi superbeings were created by a totally bonkers German scientist. He was modeled after a real person, a defrocked monk. Did they laugh at him at the University? No, the author said, but they did call him mad. In fact he was so crazy that even the Nazis wanted to deal with him as little as possible.