Local Landmarks

[cheshirenoir]

So strangedave, doctor_k_
Have you visited a certain famous local landmark yet?

Comments

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

As soon as we make it out there, I'll send you what we have (likely some absurd number of photos, from a suitably safe distance).

[agoodliedown.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Please assess the perimeter fencing vis-a-vis resistance to diprotodon attack. I'm planning on sending the protagonists into the facility on the shoulders of megafauna.

That should break the brain of my American editor.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

YAY megafauna!!

[agoodliedown.livejournal.com]

Seven metre long monitor lizards! Giant carnivorous kangaroos! Wombats the size of tanks!

How can it possibly go wrong?

[krjalk.livejournal.com]

Giant carnivorous ducklike birds! Horned turtles the size of a volkswagon! Biiiiigg snakes! Dropbears!

Well, maybe not that last one, though thylacoleo was as big as a mountain lion and was a pounce predator that probably dropped on its prey out of trees...

I'm not sure diprotodons ever got as big as a tank. A Kombi, yes.

[agoodliedown.livejournal.com]

I think, in a novel where there's a nuclear-powered time portal, I can get away with an oversize diprotodon. Especially since, when I pitched the novel, my editor said she loved dinosaurs.

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

reckon you can get away with a mega-dropbear?

[agoodliedown.livejournal.com]

Given how deranged the pitch was to begin with, and how enthusiastically the editor has accepted it (elves! secret societies! shamans! muttaburrasauri), I think I can put anything I want in this novel, and it will all be calmly accepted.

Book three in the series, where the characters attempt to steal the sapphire clock from the gravity research lab at UWA in order to resurrect the space flight program after the apocalypse, is well underway.

I don't know if it's a good thing to just let me write Stuff. There's a lot of background noise in my head.