the advantage of occasionally reading stuff you know you are going to hate

[fpb]

I hate the whole Anita Blake concept, from beginning to end. But it has given me the missing bit for my abandoned Buffy project, "...if all the heroes lose?" - just give Anita a change of sex and she will make a perfect villain. In fact, you don't even need the change of sex, but it was established that the villain of ...IATHL? is male.

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Re: AN OLD FRIEND'S REACTION TO L HAMILTON

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As for your Buffy/Leiber crossover, which sounds great - any chance you could try and rewrite it? (I know that I completely lost at least one comic I did back when I was doing small press comics, because I lost the originals and can't find any prints.)

REWRITING 'DAWN IN THE CHANGE WORLD'

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I'd need to remember that The Big Time is actually a stage play in novel form (FL came of a tribe of actors). It's a particular type of stage play; a 'closed room' mystery ala Sartre Pirandello and Chekov; with a ticking nuclear bomb in a corner of reality sealed off from space-time to give it that hot curry picquancy. It was actually performed as a play around 1982.

My story is set after BT so the bomb crisis is resolved. I'd have to think of some plot constraint that would lend a similar urgency to Dawn's relations with Sid Greta Beau Doc and Lily etc. Tentatively, Dawn must be gotten back to our time before the Spiders find out she is in the Place and forcibly recruit her into the Change War. (It's Spike's fault of course; he opened the interdimensional portal through which the demons chased Dawn).

Reluctantly I'd probably leave the Spider Soldiers out, though it might be fun to see Dawn trade quips with Erich, Greta's snide Nazi boyfriend.

A reader told me Dawn's intial dialogue with Lily was the funniest thing sh'd read in quite a while. I miss it, a little.