Ship repairs

I've been flicking through "The Cruise of the 'Conrad'" by Alan Villiers -- which happened to be on the shelf beside Shackleton's "South", and contained exactly what I was looking for in the latter but failed to find, viz. hull and deck plans showing the internal layout of the ship.
(Here are some plans of the "Endurance": http://www.ernestshackleton.net/endurance-expedition/)
Incidentally, I had had no idea that the "Endurance" was originally constructed as a cruise ship to take tourists round the Arctic -- hence why she had so many individual cabins and no cargo hold :-p

But the details of the "Joseph Conrad" were actually much closer to what I was looking for( salvaging an iron ship )

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"An Unfair Advantage" proved immensely and somewhat inexplicably popular (it didn't even benefit from being displayed as part of a "Writers Anonymous" Challenge); between July 16th and July 31st, it received 223 hits from 169 visitors, which I think is probably higher than anything else I've ever posted. Interestingly, people who read "Unfair Advantage" clearly went on to check out "Don Juan Rehearsed" as well, presumably because they were looking for more Piangi-fic; that story got a subsidiary bulge of 32 views/23 visitors!

Last Ten First Lines Meme

Meme from lost via pedanther: List the first sentence (or two if the first sentence is short) of each of the last ten fics you posted.( Read more... )

Possible publication

Having seen the number of "Phantom of the Opera"-based novels being marketed to the fans, I've been very tentatively wondering if this new story might possibly be commercially saleable: "Blue Remembered Hills" would have worked as an SF retelling in its own right if it hadn't been for the explicit Blake's 7 content, and this 'Swedish' story is pure Leroux as well as being book-length.( Read more... )