In the Future Tense
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| Title: | In the Future Tense |
| Publisher: | Nut Hatch |
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| Author(s): | Wally |
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| Illustrator(s): | JJ |
| Date(s): | June 1992 |
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| Fandom: | Professionals |
| Language: | English |
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In the Present Tense is a slash AU Professionals 160-page novel by Wally. It has art by JJ.
This zine originated with a circuit story "Detect in the Future Tense, which was circulated several years ago."
About
From The Hatstand:
The original version of this alternate universe, science fiction novel was a shorter story called "Detect in the Future Tense". The novel expanded on that story and "Detect in the Future Tense" was absorbed into it. A sequel to this novel is "In the Future Tense, Part 3" by Wally in the anthology Fantazine 5, with the "Part 3" perhaps being a reference to the original short story as part of the sequence despite the novel having absorbed it. [1]
From the Publisher
"Order from our Australian distributor, JJ, or via your circuit: ask your circuit librarian about group ordering! Remember, SAL mailing of big packages saves a group a lot of $$$!."
A Flyer
It all began with Detect In The Future Tense, which was circulated many years ago...
You may have had the feeling that there was more to come and you would have been right! Now, fresh from the pen of Wally, here at last is the whole story you've been hoping for!
Detect is reproduced in these pages as the launchpad from which the whole tale builds. This piece surely needs no introduction! What follows on from Detect is a science fiction story that will keep you guessing and remain in your mind for a long time to come. This is Wally's very best tale to date: a big, meaty, well researched and thoughtful novel which comes highly recommended for lovers of B/D or SF — or both.
In the author's own words:
Dellan is our world as if can me. Not perfect but pretty close to it. I tried, in my first drafts, to make Dellan perfect, but I had to change my plans. Firstly because if it was perfect there would be no need for law enforcement officers. And secondly because you can't be perfect and free. We can try both either but not both. Plato, in his `Republic,' designed a perfect society but there was no freedom ... so Dellan is imperfect, but free.' Enter Bodie and Doyle, law enforcement officers — another time, another place, where the exotic and the ordinary mingle ... and romance blossoms.
A whole zine-sized novel in compacted type. 150pp, coil bound, illustrated. [2]
From the Editorial
In the meantime, let me close this ramble and let you begin Wally's novel. This is a thoughtful, and thought-provoking piece which may haunt you, possibly because its realism is such, you can genuinely believe in the characters and situations. Easily the best thing Wally has done yet. Comments are actively solicited: remember, if you nudge the writer hard enough, you may well get another chapter! (Hint. hint), if you would like your actual letters passed on to Wally, please include a separate sheet, and we'll forward those LoCs directly.
The Author's Afterword
I hope you have enjoyed reading this story as much as I have enjoyed writing it. I would like to thank (again) Pegasus, for her help and support. And Julia, for putting up with us while we thrashed out plot and character.
I suppose what a writer writes reflects what he or she believes. We can't help putting part of ourselves into the words we have our characters say or the things they believe in.
The Earth that Bodie comes from is out Earth as it will be if we don't come to our senses. And soon. We will lose not only all the beauty but our freedom, too. A world packed full of people cannot be free -- there are just too many people. We will give up -- voluntarily or not - our freedoms for our safety.
Dellan is our world as if can be. Not perfect, but pretty close to it. I tried, in my first drafts, to make Dellan perfect, but I had to change my plans. Firstly, because if it was perfect there would be no need for law enforcement officers. And secondly, because you can't be perfect and free. We can try for either but not both. Plato, in his Republic, designed a perfect society, but there was no freedom; it had to be based on a lie. So Dellan is imperfect but free.
I hope I have kept the basic characters of Doyle and Bodie as they were given to us in the series. I try to do so, changing only what I really have to for the story to work. But you, as readers, are the ones who will decide whether I did it well or not.
This story is many things, some of them intentional, some of them unconscious. But most of all, it is intended to entertain. If it has not succeeded in doing that, then it has failed. I do hope that it has not.
Sample Interior Gallery
art by JJ, photocopy
art by JJ, photocopy
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