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Are there any of the novels that deal with the "Gang" individually? Giving you more of Jak's story for instance than the rest.

Are Magus and Delphi one and the same?

No. God no. Delphi is Pollotta's second-hand knockoff of Magus.

Is he in just the 2 novel's.

Maximus, in your review for Prodigal Return you say AP had written about Ryans Daughter? In what book was that?

Posted By silentalbino on 19 Apr 2012 11:33 AM
Are there any of the novels that deal with the "Gang" individually? Giving you more of Jak's story for instance than the rest.

Neutron Solstice - Where we meet Jak for the first time and learn a lot about him

Crater Lake - Ryan & Krysty discover Docs back story. That section is one of the best bits of writing Laurence did for Deathlands in my opinion.

Northstar rising - They find Mildred and find out all about her.

Homeward bound - We find out Ryans back story.

Thats just off the top of my head. I'm not sure if LJ did any back story for J.B or Krysty? I think there may be some in Pilgrimage to Hell on them but not a lot.

Anything that was written by anyone other than Laurence, Mark Ellis or Jack Adrian I don't consider "canon"  so have not mentioned.

Jim

Sound lad. Was thinking it would be a good idea for a novel for one of them to get separated and have there own lil adventure.

Krysty was dealt with in Crossways, but JB never got anything, despite the companions going past his hometown several times.

I've got one: In Nightmare Passage, the author (Mark Ellis) mentions Ladrow Buford's cloning farm and the Dwellers. Buford's name rings a bell, but there's nothing on the wiki about him, and the Dwellers... ??? Can anyone fill me in?

Ladrow Buford is from Genesis Echo and the Dwellers appeared in Watersleep.

I thought Buford was from the Crichton Institute.... the Dwellers are those fishmen? I never knew they had a name. Good to know.

Silentalbino, to answer your question, the sorely missed author, Alan Phillipson gave us a Ryan's daughter in his last DL book, Doom Helix. And what a daughter she was!

I think he is in the basic 3 book formula for regular villans like Strasser, The Russian Major, Straub, and the Magus. Delphi is in Perdition Valley, Shatter Zone( at least I think he's hinted) and Desert kings.

Magus is a long-term recurring enemy. He might have been intended as a standard villain at first, but he only appeared in LJ's last regular book. Later authors built him up to the point where he became a major force in Deathlands and a major enemy to the companions, kind of like Murdock to MacGyver.

IIRC, Delphi was killed in Desert Kings - he was eaten by a kraken. I have the book, but I only skimmed it; feel free to correct me on this point, anyone.

Hey Mark, another question: Who is the Other Krysty keeps mentioning in Nightmare Passage? The only psionic enemies I recall up to that point are Akhnaton and Kaa.

Posted By Kerrick on 22 Apr 2012 12:58 AM


Hey Mark, another question: Who is the Other Krysty keeps mentioning in Nightmare Passage? The only psionic enemies I recall up to that point are Akhnaton and Kaa.

Could you be more specific? It's been 15 years and nearly three times  that many books since I turned in the original manuscript. I remember referencing Lord Kaa but not the other thing.

cheers for the info folks.

Okay, I found one mention of it (I recall a couple, but I think this one will do):

Krysty didn't reply. She was thinking of her own psionic abilities, the power to sense and semi-interact with strong emotional states - or be influenced by them if they were too strong. Images of the inhuman Other and the crazed Kaa flitted unbidden into her mind.

On another note, I just wanted to correct myself from further up the thread regarding Magus. I flipped through PtH looking for something else, and it turns out I was mostly wrong - when the stickies are mentioned, it says that they first appeared in Wolfram's circus a few years ago (meaning around 2094), but Wolfram got really cagey when asked where he got them. Magus himself isn't mentioned until much later - Strasser reveals that he got the nerve gas from "the weirdo with the steel eye" (yes, that's eye, singular), and the narrator (Adrian, not LJ) says that Magus has a rep for appearing in distant places (and sometimes it seems like two places at once), dropping off rare/strange goods, then vanishing again.

Oh-h-h-h...

I think "The Other" was what Mel Odom called that psionic plant thing in Bitter Fruit.

As for Magus and the stickies...as of Stoneface, we know he got the stickies from The Anthill.

All that appearing and disappearing stuff was one reason a few readers speculated that Magus and Colonel Thrush were the same.

Posted By Jax2 on 23 Apr 2012 12:28 PM
Oh-h-h-h...

I think "The Other" was what Mel Odom called that psionic plant thing in Bitter Fruit.

That has to be it, I remember that now.

I think "The Other" was what Mel Odom called that psionic plant thing in Bitter Fruit.
Ah, okay. I remember that thing had rudimentary psionic abilities, so it's possible.

As for Magus and the stickies...as of Stoneface, we know he got the stickies from The Anthill.
We do? I don't recall any mention of stickies in that book, but it makes sense...