Comments on: Chapter Two

By: Captain Spankoff! AKA Adrian of Scotland

Captain Spankoff! AKA Adrian of Scotland — Fri, 27 May 2005 16:57:28 +0000

Is sarah available? David sorry its taking me so long to write comments, my work blocked internet access and my mums screwed up my home pc by adjusting the pop up window thing, quite annoying
but ths chapter was worth the fight with the pc, The russian weapons/kid was a very keen comment scarecrow, but the real rpg costs $10!!1 a blank firing one costs �600!!! if you click my name it’ll take you to a websit that sewlls really cool blank firing guns, David! where to you imagine these things, your mind must be a really cool/scary/interesting place! the living can now detect life energy, the russian boy is evil? i thought he’d be a good one, what other countrys survived? islands like new zealand or australia with big open places, what about dead sealife or dead birds,wont dead airborne animals fly into ayanns camp?
im confuddled, take care dave, ill probable be able to read todays comment on sunday grrrr
hope everyone has a good weekend, and laura says hello soon!!!!
take care y’all
adrian

By: TimmyL.A.

TimmyL.A. — Fri, 27 May 2005 13:58:29 +0000

Lots of rock ‘em sock ‘em right off the bat. I hope we get to see how these surviors have been living over the years.
There is a teaser!? Why can’t I find it!?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 May 2005 02:24:36 +0000

Wow Dave, got quite to the point huh? This is not only keeping a great heart stopping action story together, but a puzzle as well. This russian boy is quite intelligent. Is Mael still the puppeteer as it were? I mean, he was ursurped by Gary, so is he still in play? And I wonder if other living characters can see such energy with the clarity sarah does. Well, all around, I am hooked!

By: Dave (the Author)

Dave (the Author) — Thu, 26 May 2005 22:50:45 +0000

Carlos: It’s been twelve years. The first two books were almost simultaneous. Sarah was eight years old when Dekalb left Somalia; Ayaan was sixteen (in case you’re interested, Dekalb was 29, Gary was 32, and Mael Mag Och was 2,215).
So…
Now Sarah is 19-20 (not sure, since she can’t remember her birthday), Ayaan is 28 (she’s had a hard life–the average life expectancy in 2017 is now 25 years), Osman is in his 50s and everybody else is dead.
Oh, and welcome back!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 26 May 2005 15:20:53 +0000

Hey guys.. im back, a little late though
Wheres that teaser you are talking about? I want to read that too!
We finally meet Sarah, and i like her already.. But im not sure, how much time passed between nation and planet? It seems it had been a lot (Ayaan middle aged?!)
I really liked the fast paced way things are happening.. still I cant wait to see Dekalb and Gary again
Wow, almost forgot.. is Bannerman alive?
LOL, just kidding ahaha.. sorry, just cant resist

By: mendoza

mendoza — Thu, 26 May 2005 13:26:44 +0000

Hell of a start Dave. This chapter was incredible.

By: Dave (the Author)

Dave (the Author) — Thu, 26 May 2005 05:58:21 +0000

Hi, everyone, thanks for your comments.
Scarecrow: The ubiquity of Russian military hardware in the Third World is staggering. There are supposedly fifty million AK-47s out there still in operation. There are so many RPG-7vs that you can buy one in Kabul or Mogadishu for ten dollars. In the real world what the Soviets did (basically arming to the teeth every psychopath in the world who could stay sane long enough to salute the Hammer and Sickle) is nothing short of a crime against humanity (and don’t think I’m unaware of what we Americans did to win the Cold War, too). In the Monster Universe it’s the only thing that saved the human race. Countries like Somalia (where Ayaan hails from) were the only ones that survived, because they had more guns than corpses.
Don: The teaser explains how Sarah got her power (singular)–Jack came to her in the desert as a ghost and taught her. All living (and undead) creatures have the ability to sense life energy, both the good kind and the bad. When you feel like someone is staring at you and turn around and see that they are, or when you go up to a house on Halloween and you can tell there are people inside even though the lights are off and the curtains are drawn, well, that’s the same thing Sarah has. She’s just developed it a lot more. Jack had his reasons for giving Sarah this gift, as we shall see.

By: ed adkins

ed adkins — Thu, 26 May 2005 03:36:57 +0000

SWEET. I love the pace you’ve set with this one!

By: Feral Fish

Feral Fish — Thu, 26 May 2005 01:23:40 +0000

Zombies, helicopters, crazy magic, explosions! Hot damn, Planet is off to a crazy, Dawn remake style zombie, running start! You must be trying to kill us all with this pace so that we can rise as your undead army. I for one would be proud to shamble for you so keep it up!
Donny D: I love The Walking Dead series! I’ve been reading in graphic novel form and have recently got it up to issue 16 in digital form as well (which I know is slightly naughty copyright-wise, but I need my fix between novels). You’re right though, as fantastic as it is it’s not even close to the Monster series. I’ve seen plenty of zombie fiction (unfortunatly no fact…yet) and this is by far the best stuff I’ve ever read.

By: alnjo

alnjo — Wed, 25 May 2005 22:46:37 +0000

fine suff dave.
can you make it stop raining?