Armageddon???? - Part Eighty One Up

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2008-08-21 10:15am

Shermpotter wrote:No matter the answer, I shall look forward to this endeavor!!

Armageddon (or to be more formal The Salavation War: Armageddon) only appears on SDN; its SDN's story just as the TBOverse tales are HPCA's story. However, Armageddon will be going into print in due course - in fact we need to start thinking about a cover design etc very shortly.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2008-08-21 10:19am

Stuart wrote:This also makes Heaven a much more dangerous opponent for humans; they could see Hell, knew what it was about and understood how it functioned very quickly. Heaven isn't like that at all.

The caveat I would add to that is that once a particular part of Heaven's been exploded thoroughly enough, we understand cratered rubble quite well.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-08-21 10:25am

I know this isn't what'll happen, but I envisage a Havokeff-style spread showcasing all the characters who have appeared in more than one chapter. You know, kind of like a 90's Batman movie poster

Shermpotter · Post by **Shermpotter** » 2008-08-21 10:26am

Well, what do you have in mind? We can see what is out there!

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2008-08-21 10:30am

Stuart wrote:(amusingly, for all the ignorant wailing on places like spacebattles or SAHWI - who have yet to come up with a single viable and supportable objection to the technical or political content of the book - they missed the one serious technical howler in TBO)

I didn't catch it either. What was it?

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2008-08-21 10:33am

So help me, if Havok gives Colonel Warhol a camel-toe... *shakes a fist*

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-08-21 10:54am

Sadly, military-heavy fic usually works better with simple covers that give away almost nothing, like this.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-08-21 11:03am

Stuart wrote:
Shermpotter wrote:No matter the answer, I shall look forward to this endeavor!!
Armageddon (or to be more formal The Salavation War: Armageddon) only appears on SDN; its SDN's story just as the TBOverse tales are HPCA's story. However, Armageddon will be going into print in due course - in fact we need to start thinking about a cover design etc very shortly.

I'll be glad to edit Armageddon when the time comes for that, just like I edited all the TBO novels. Its quite a relaxing way to spend an evening. How's the word-count between your standard TBO novel and armagedoon stack up?

fnord · Post by **fnord** » 2008-08-21 11:06am

What do you actually end up doing during your relaxing evening?

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-08-21 11:15am

fnord wrote:What do you actually end up doing during your relaxing evening?

Watch TV and edit a novel, with a bacon-tini for refreshment. Its a nice way to go about it.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-08-21 11:44am

tim31 wrote:Sadly, military-heavy fic usually works better with simple covers that give away almost nothing, like this.

I really think it'd need something that says 'this involves Satan getting shot in the face' on the cover, no matter how minimal it gets...

EDIT: I wonder, how well one could do a bronze trident broken and crushed into the mud/sand by a caterpillar-track track.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-08-21 11:51am

NecronLord wrote:
tim31 wrote:Sadly, military-heavy fic usually works better with simple covers that give away almost nothing, like this.
I really think it'd need something that says 'this involves Satan getting shot in the face' on the cover, no matter how minimal it gets...

Uh... I don't think Satan's going to get shot in the face. I'd like to see the Battle of the Dunes, personally.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-08-21 11:56am

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Uh... I don't think Satan's going to get shot in the face. I'd like to see the Battle of the Dunes, personally.

Again. I wasn't being literal. I mean it needs something that obviously says it has a 'supernatural' or 'infernal' tone. As opposed to normal war-fiction.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-08-21 12:06pm

So not this then?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-08-21 12:15pm

The scary thing is... I can see that as a Tom Clancy book cover.

Needs flames though.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2008-08-21 12:16pm

There could be the basis of a good idea there. Replace the gray with black and flames, put a better picture of Satan's head in the scope and we have something to work with

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-08-21 02:14pm

I think you'd want Satan to be snarling angrily, and not actually looking right at you. Something like this:

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-08-21 02:16pm

That sort of Satan requires a sonic screwdriver, I'd think.

Pelranius · Post by **Pelranius** » 2008-08-21 03:02pm

It'd be nice to have Satan to look sort of like a nightmare (as in Mike Wong's suggestion) but for him to also be recognizably human.

I enjoyed the Michael part greatly. I'm reminded of Good Omens, incidentally.

Looks like Yahweh is an addict as well. He seems rather unfocused, or was that description referring to Michael?

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-08-21 03:03pm

That's more like it! First hit on google images FTW.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2008-08-21 03:04pm

Something like this perhaps? (The picture has to be public domain)/

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-08-21 03:09pm

Nice, though I'd switch fonts between 'Salvation War' and Armageddon. Maybe to some 'CLASSIFIED' military stamp font?

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2008-08-21 03:25pm

Stewart--I'd be happy to grammar-Nazi/edit the book as well if you'd like. Anything I can do to contribute, really!

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-08-21 03:26pm

Fleet Admiral JD wrote:Stewart--I'd be happy to grammar-Nazi/edit the book as well if you'd like. Anything I can do to contribute, really!

Back off, you! I edit the books! *throws chair, cracks whip*

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-08-21 03:37pm

Stuart wrote:Something like this perhaps? (The picture has to be public domain)

Unfortunately, that one isn't, it's 'Satan' from Doctor Who.