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Vivien - The Vintage Fire Engine.

While at work today, I drove past Wisbech Town Hall and saw the famous vintage fire engine called 'Vivien.' This vehicle was in service around Wisbech from 1932 to 1963. It was named after the Mayoress in 1932 and was one of the most up to date fire engines of the time. Fenlanders were very proud of her and even though she has long been out of service, Vivien is kept in fabulous condition. She often suddenly appears before an event. We are wondering if she'll be going to Sandringham on Sunday 11th because there is an event if vintage cars, falconry etc.

She was attracting a lot of attention and as I parked my van to about my work, I could not help taking a quick snap on my mobile. She still has her starting handle at the front.  

Growing Interest for Science Fiction Adaptation - The Last Days of Thunder Child

The science fiction adaptation story of the grand ironclad – HMS Thunder Child will be on sale in the UK from 2017. It is available in the USA now. 

This adaptation is set in the original time of 1898 in Queen Victoria's Britain. A nation of steam and iron where the notion of something or someone greater was unthinkable.

That was until the Martians came with their gigantic fighting machines that spewed heat rays and poisonous smoke upon the little creatures that tried to scatter before the inhuman onslaught.

Read the new adaptation on sale in the UK from 2017. It has already generated rapid interest in the USA.


    

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The story sells well in the USA, but I've always wanted to see how it would do in the UK. 

Under EU law the pastiche can't be published until September of 2016. 

This pastiche SciFi story was inspired by H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds set in Victorian Britain in the year of 1898. I suppose it crosses a number of genres in this day and age. Obviously Science Fiction, but also Alternative Reality and even Steampunk. 

I went on a journey of discovery trying to imagine what H.M.S. Thunder Child might have looked like and fell fancifully in love with the first revolving turret ship without sails. It was H.M.S. Devastation - blogs of which are featured here. She also had a sister ship called HMS Thunderer.

At first, these revolving ship's had muzzle-loading guns with short stumpy barrels that barely protruded from the gun ports. I wanted to keep these on the ship of 1898. Even though they were obsolete by such times. I used poetic license to do such a thing and used a credible excuse.

The whole endeavour of this written work was done during an evening school writing class and it sort of developed from there. It was a wonderful project that I found most absorbing. I got it edited properly and a front cover picture from an artist living in Cambridgeshire.

It cannot be published in the UK or the EU until September 2016, but the USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND are selling the novel now.

Read H.M.S. Thunder Child's adventure against the Martian tripods. Victorian Britain is now a dystopian land. The world has gone mad and the British Empire is exposed for all the weakness it has against an alien technology it cannot compete against. One small outdated ironclad steps up to the mark with a brave crew. In the River Blackwater, Thunder Child makes a defiant stand. Follow the crew and her last voyage.

My Pastiche novel about H.G. Wells' fictional battleship H.M.S. Thunder Child (The Last Days of Thunder Child) was based on H.M.S. Devastation. In my imagination, I could see this design for Thunder Child going into battle against three Martian tripods on the River Blackwater in the county of Essex, England, the UK in 1898.

Muzzleloading guns went obsolete around 1889. All Royal Navy ships, including Devastation, were converted to Breech loading. However, I invented a political excuse to keep Thunder Child antiquated and still retaining the short stubby muzzleloading guns inside revolving turrets. 

This was to give Thunder Child a feeling of being behind the times, but still plucky when the occasion demanded. The diagram above was found in a library book and then I was fortunate enough to find it online. This gives a great internal view of the working of H.M.S. Devastation and I used this plan for my vision of H.M.S. Thunder Child in The Last Days of Thunder Child by C.A. Powell. 

The book is only on sale in the USA at the moment but will be able to be sold in the EU and other places in 2017. On USA kindle, the novel is available for download and it can be bought in print too. Check out the advert below.

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The "Last Days of Thunder Child" by C.A. Powell, is a pastiche story from H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds; It shows us the original story from the fresh perspective of the ship's crew.

Here's an interview with author C.A. Powell: 

Fantascize.com: What's the novel about? 

Powell: The story takes place on board a small Victorian battleship cruising around the coast. They get semaphore reports but can't believe the communications they are getting. The only hear stories can see the huge and unusual amount of shipping. Being aboard a boat allows the reader to stay detached from the situation for a long time and cling to normality. However, all the time there is the knowledge of the realization of an approaching doom. 

Fantascize.com: How did you come up with this idea? 

Powell: It started from an idea at a writing class --an exercise, and I developed it from there. I live close to Maldon in Essex, UK, and like early Victorian ironclads. Plus H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds is one of my all-time favourite sci-fi novels. 

Fantascize.com: What did you like about War of the Worlds in particular?

Powell: The mayhem and uprooting of everyday life. It is suddenly vanquished for an apocalyptic world overnight. The social normality of things vanish and survivors have to adapt or perish. 

Fantascize.com: What's the most challenging part of writing a sci-fi novel?

Powell: Trying to view a world completely different from the one we live in yet moving through the story with your own values and conditioned social beliefs. 

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