Apocalypse Al And Novel Project News

[Jan]

Unfortunately, it wasn't cancelled. It was lost in a computer disaster along with who knows what else.

Jan

[Donald]

I was very dissapointed to see that his novel had been cancelled as his others have been of very high quality.

[SmileOfTheShadow]

It sounds like the novel is gone. I know he's been working on a play for some time now. Ditto the B5 graphic novel. Not to mention current projects. SOME of it, or early drafts, might be on his laptop since he seems to have been traveling a fair amount lately but I don't think that this can be anything but a major loss for him and, by extension, us.

And that's just the work. What about email? Photos? All of the many personal things that we tend to keep on our computers these days. It's a real shame.

Jan

Oh yes. I don't really keep many of those on my comp myself so I don't think about it. But JMS seems like a packrat type..

Jon

[Jan]

It sounds like the novel is gone. I know he's been working on a play for some time now. Ditto the B5 graphic novel. Not to mention current projects. SOME of it, or early drafts, might be on his laptop since he seems to have been traveling a fair amount lately but I don't think that this can be anything but a major loss for him and, by extension, us.

And that's just the work. What about email? Photos? All of the many personal things that we tend to keep on our computers these days. It's a real shame.

Jan

[SmileOfTheShadow]

If ever.

I just can't imagine losing something of the magnitude of a novel in progress. It's just incredible. I only hope that the rest of his recent completed work is on his laptop or that he can recover it from others to whom he might have emailed it, such as his comic scripts. But works in progress? Wasn't there a play he's been working on for quite a while as well as the novel? So sad...

Jan

I'm wondering how much work this impacts. The novel probably, comics...scripts? Yikes. There's a play too? oh no!

[Jan]

For all we know, he had a backup system that failed. That recently happened to us at work. The system never gave us any indication that the backups that were performed faithfully every night didn't work for *eight months*. Thankfully we found out before disaster.

Jan

[Garibaldi's Hair]

Hasn't he ever heard of backups ...

[Jan]

So I guess we're not gonna get to read that one any time soon.

If ever.

I just can't imagine losing something of the magnitude of a novel in progress. It's just incredible. I only hope that the rest of his recent completed work is on his laptop or that he can recover it from others to whom he might have emailed it, such as his comic scripts. But works in progress? Wasn't there a play he's been working on for quite a while as well as the novel? So sad...

Jan

[SmileOfTheShadow]

Since no one else has made a topic yet...I'll do my diligent duty of posting the JMS post

Jon wrote:
> A couple of months ago you mentioned that this was possibly getting
> picked up by NPR and possibly coming out on CD. Is this still on the
> table? It'd be great to be able to get those. I haven't heard them
> yet, being in the US.
>
Post production took longer than expected, but I now have the final CDs
with the finished show on hand...so now CBC can schedule it.

> Also...is there still a novel in the works?
>

Sorta...well, there was...then there was this hard disk crash (btw,
nothing from that drive can be recovered, just got the bad news today).

jms

I was really looking forward to his book..which I forget the title and I always try to bring up in the groups. It was listed in his bio for the JMS Unplugged book. Okay..I remember now, it was called "The World On Fire." So I guess we're not gonna get to read that one any time soon.

Though I'm excited for the Apocalypse Al bit. His radio dramas are pretty good. In case anyone hasn't heard some of them, he did this one for the sci-fi channel a few years back http://www.scifi.com/cityofdreams/pr..._episodes.html So I'll be buying the Al cds when they come out.

Jon