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The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 8:13AM 27 replies

Has anyone noticed how just about every story sigler has ever written are linked in one way or another? I'll give a few examples. The Alien in the story "The Wolf" was a Ki. Anyone catch that? The Alien's that were chasing the Roctopi were Qwuith. Anyone else see any? There are some more obvious ones. Discuss.

Shamakath

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 8:27AM

i didnt catch the thing about the Quith

"They don't want to help you, they want to kill you!"

Qeldroma

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 8:36AM

Ok give me a sec. Ok as far as I remember. The ship that was chasing the Roctopi closley resembled the space station's for the orbiting death. I forget the name, help me out here. OMG My memory is shot. I sound like an idiot. Plus the qwuith that quentin was talking to on the way, talked about how the Qwuith had "people" (IE the roctopi), who would go and mine Platinum from asteroids. So I just kinda put two and two together. Crap! Now I need to go listen to the Rookie again to clarify. Am I waaaayyy off track here scott?

corwin

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 12:45PM

I do remember something along those lines. The interconnectedness of the Siglerverse is one of my favorite parts. -- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.

-- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.

Brad_P._from_NJ

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 1:08PM

At the risk of quoting another famous PodCasting author, the Sigler-verse does indeed seem to pop up in almost all of his work. What I find interesting is that he doesn't seem to use it as a crutch. If a story works and incorporates something of the 'verse in there, we'll find it. If including would be just too much, we don't see it. Snipe Hunt is a fine example. Here, Siggie had a chance to get his work and 'verse out to the D&D listening audience, and he apparently went in another direction. I'm waiting for a big ol' wall chart timeline in the future showing us all how the pieces that are in the puzzle fit together. ------- Whole Lot of Nonsense PodCast - http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org UUCSH Sunday Services - http://uucsh.libsyn.com Follow Me - http://www.twitter.com/bpende Pownce on Me - http://www.pownce.com/bpende

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jeffhex

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 1:10PM

It sounds like a different sort of story... any guesses how (besides killing off us junkies) he might link the aliens in here?

corwin

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 1:45PM

Though clearly a lot of thought has gone into putting the 'verse together and what roles everyone and everything play, the connections themselves are usually subtle and could easily go unnoticed except by us real junkies. They're much more bonus easter eggs for the true fans rather than cosmic lynchpins holding pieces of the story together. -- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.

-- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.

Outcast

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 2:10PM

There was also a reference to the 'Kool Suit' in 'The Rookie,' which I believe Scott said was a direct descendant to the ones used in 'Ancestor.'

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Shamakath

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 4:04PM

i listened again and its true

"They don't want to help you, they want to kill you!"

Brad_P._from_NJ

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Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 5:30PM

Man, I missed that one. I need to break out my backup DVDs and relisten to that one. ------- Whole Lot of Nonsense PodCast - http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org UUCSH Sunday Services - http://uucsh.libsyn.com Follow Me - http://www.twitter.com/bpende Pownce on Me - http://www.pownce.com/bpende

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Brad_P._from_NJ

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 09, 2007 @ 5:33PM

Siggie leaked (?) that it's possible that the rocktopi under Mt. Fitzroy may have avoided the disease that screwed up the rocktopi we saw in Earthcore. Maybe there's another population in Nocturnal? It's also possible that it may be a stand-alone in the Universe... or even a new species we've not seen yet, but may see in some future novel. So, there may be a tie-in we just don't know about yet. ------- Whole Lot of Nonsense PodCast - http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org UUCSH Sunday Services - http://uucsh.libsyn.com Follow Me - http://www.twitter.com/bpende Pownce on Me - http://www.pownce.com/bpende

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Qeldroma

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 10, 2007 @ 3:20PM

"I'm waiting for a big ol' wall chart timeline in the future showing us all how the pieces that are in the puzzle fit together." That would be cool as hell.

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 11, 2007 @ 2:36AM

http://escapepod.org/2006/01/05/ep035-hero/ I think that the "Hero" has someone watching the GFL, Krakens vs Survivors if I remember correctly.

Brad_P._from_NJ

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 11, 2007 @ 7:24AM

It definitely falls in the universe, though. One more for the wall chart... Am I gonna have to make the chart myself, or did someone else volunteer? Who knows how to edit the wiki, 'cause I'd probably break the frakkin' thing. ------- Whole Lot of Nonsense PodCast - http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org UUCSH Sunday Services - http://uucsh.libsyn.com Follow Me - http://www.twitter.com/bpende Pownce on Me - http://www.pownce.com/bpende

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Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 12, 2007 @ 2:07AM

Isn't the idea with the wiki to do stuff together? Anyway, I started with a very, very short timeline at: http://www.scottsigler.com/wiki/index.php/Timeline Let's all come together, fill the timetable with good stuff, hold hands and sing "Cumbaya" around the camp-fire. Well, maybe not that last bit...

Scott

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 12, 2007 @ 7:33AM

Hello all. This is a very exciting thread! What a thrill to see you all putting the pieces together. It all leads to something really, really big - that I might not get to in this lifetime (or I might be bullshitting you all and I haven't figured out what the "big thing" is yet).

Anyway, NOCTURNAL is present-day, happening right now. I'm even going to address real-time news issues in the podcast. That might change for the print version. Therefore, there's not going to be a lot of links to the ROOKIE Universe, although it's all one big universe -- ROOKIE is our universe, just way out in that there future.

Brad_P._from_NJ

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 12, 2007 @ 12:41PM

Oh Lord... You are totally right. It's all about sharing the effort. I'm just afraid to start some of the things, because I don't want to get picked on for doing it wrong... I should get over that (note to self... tell therapist I have starting project issues...) To the WIKI! ------- Whole Lot of Nonsense PodCast - http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org UUCSH Sunday Services - http://uucsh.libsyn.com Follow Me - http://www.twitter.com/bpende Pownce on Me - http://www.pownce.com/bpende

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cianmm

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 12, 2007 @ 12:54PM

Anytime i notice something like this, i just sit up, listen to the bit again, then giggle for a while.

Brad_P._from_NJ

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Posted: Oct 15, 2007 @ 11:22AM

It's like I finally get the joke... I grew up a freak and a geek, and nobody else got my Star Trek references, or thought Buckaroo Banzai was funny. Now, we all know better. Of course, as a VBA programmer, I'm still doing the homework of the popular kids. ------- Whole Lot of Nonsense PodCast - http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org UUCSH Sunday Services - http://uucsh.libsyn.com Follow Me - http://www.twitter.com/bpende Pownce on Me - http://www.pownce.com/bpende

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Kevinesque

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 15, 2007 @ 8:29PM

I'm all about the inside joke and the reference that only 1 in 159 people will understand, and I think that the type of 'cross-pollination' that happens in the Sig-verse is what gives the thousands of displaced MST3K fans (MSTies) something new to happily obsess over. The bonus is, it's not just in the Sig-verse, but in the pod-novel writers' uber-clique as a whole... I'm not ashamed to say that I almost soiled myself with glee when I listened to 'Hell'. (spoiler successfully avoided)

Qeldroma

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 16, 2007 @ 6:26AM

Nice responses here guys. I may have to go in and edit the Wiki a bit. But Im too damn lazy right now.

Kevinesque

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 16, 2007 @ 11:08AM

editing wikis is what many people do when they're being lazy. :-)

corwin

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:08PM

You just gotta pick something fun and dive right in. Otherwise we'll never get the damn thing populated. I'm reading the print version of EarthCore now and adding tidbits here and there as I go. -- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.

-- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.

Brad_P._from_NJ

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 19, 2007 @ 7:15AM

Like Hero's Dad's license plate in Heroes. If you pay attention, you get the reward. I enjoyed the cross-over contest with Infection for just this reason. I had to pay attention to the genre, not just Siggie's works. ------- Whole Lot of Nonsense PodCast - http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org UUCSH Sunday Services - http://uucsh.libsyn.com Follow Me - http://www.twitter.com/bpende Pownce on Me - http://www.pownce.com/bpende

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Lily

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 19, 2007 @ 7:11PM

I've noticed a few links as well. My problem, though, is that I get myself so caught up in the story that I can't or don't pay infinitesimal anal retentive attention to the physical description of the creatures in the stories. so I have a WHOLE lot of those "dude.. wait, was that a... dammit I can't remember what that one looked like for sure!!" sort of moments. I'm a recent junkie, I'm finishing up Earthcore now, and then I'll be caught up. Now I'll have to listen all over again to make sure i have the connections right. good GOD I just reread my first few lines. It looks like I barfed a damn dictionary.

corwin

Re: The Link.

Posted: Oct 21, 2007 @ 8:18PM

It's so much easier to find all these connections with the print versions, I bet. I just finished the print version of Earthcore, and have it open by my side while I go through and add anal retentive details on minor characters to the Siglerpedia :) -- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.

-- The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.