well then.

[minkhollow]

Two paragraphs, the outline, and the bibliography of the research paper done. Can't really start typing the paper itself just yet, seeing as the first page depends on the placement of the paper title - and it doesn't have one yet.
Which means I also can't do the title page or the table of contents.
Anyway. I think I've earned a bit of a break, and Mom wanted me to start some potatoes to go with dinner, and I found something in the SFBC catalog this morning I just HAVE to share.

From a summary of Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, which sounds like a pretty cool book besides this bit:
...No less startled are the British soldiers who had thought they were fighting on the late 19th-century Indian frontier...
My first thought, even through the tired fog of early-morning thought processes, was something like '!!!! BRACY AND GEDGE!'
There's even something in the summary about one of Alexander the Great's armies! (Which ties in with daegaer's fics quite nicely.)
Far as I can tell, they're all being shuffled randomly into the here and now. Sounds like a fun book, even without the !!!! bits.

Also, RPage GIP. Renders this icon a bit obsolete, but what can you do?

Comments

[katmaxwell.livejournal.com]

Heee. :giggles madly: Fenn has ruined our views on British soldiers in 19th century India completely, hasn't he? :continues giggling:

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OF COURSE HE HAS!
(I'd be sorely dissapointed if I read the book and didn't see their names in. I mean, I know it's not likely, but still.)

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Ehehehe! Dear me, the poor lads of the 404th would find the modern world very difficult to adjust to. All the yound ladies wandering round insisting on the right to vote and wear trousers, for a start. And the funny looks they'd get for holding hands with a bosom pal.

[minkhollow]

::snerk::
Quite.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

'Good Lord,' said Roberts in a strangled whisper, 'that young woman is wearing trousers. I believe I can see the shape of her - her --'

'Thighs?' asked Bracy in a voice no less thunderstruck.

'Oh, stop! Stop, old man!' cried Roberts, 'The thought of a woman's thighs - it's too horrible to contemplate!'

(They'd probably faint dead away at the sight of a miniskirt).

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Can you just picture their reaction to ten-year-old girls wearing slutwear?

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Oh man.
Oh man.
IALVATJ. (And at the icon. ::snerk::)