Comments on: Coming this fall on TV https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/28/coming-this-fall-on-tv/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/28/coming-this-fall-on-tv/#comment-16791 FrankC Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:22:01 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19029#comment-16791 I like apocalypse stuff, The Revolution series looks promising. I think the Elementary series will be great. I like apocalypse stuff, The Revolution series looks promising.

I think the Elementary series will be great.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/28/coming-this-fall-on-tv/#comment-16790 ER Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:03:08 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19029#comment-16790 The first time I clicked on your link I found a Wired article on the spy fiction of William Le Queux, and I responded with the post below. I now see the TV previews you obviously expected me to link to. ?????? At any rate, the Childers article I posted may be of some interest to you, so I'll leave it up. The first time I clicked on your link I found a Wired article on the spy fiction of William Le Queux, and I responded with the post below. I now see the TV previews you obviously expected me to link to. ??????

At any rate, the Childers article I posted may be of some interest to you, so I’ll leave it up.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/28/coming-this-fall-on-tv/#comment-16789 ER Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:36:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19029#comment-16789 to William Le Queuex being described as "the first espionage novelist". That honor is usually assingned to Erskine Childers (1874-1922) , whose "Riddle of the Sands" (1903) is not only considered the first spy novel, but a rip-roaring good sea story of considerable literary merit as well. It was written as a polemic to alert the British Admiralty that a definite threat of a cross-channel invasion of Britain by Germany acoss the North Sea existed, and the book is said to have had a great influence on English Naval policy prior to WWI. The book is available for reading online (for free!) http://robroy.dyndns.info/books/rec/rs.html and I strongly suggest you take advantage of the opportunity and do so right now! A first-rate film adaptataion of the novel starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter is also available on video. Childers was a pretty colorful character himself, and crammed quite a bit of action into his short life. Besides being a decorated war hero himself, he also worked against his own country when he adopted the cause of Irish Independence. He married a swashbuckling Irish-American heiress and used his yacht (Childers was a fine seaman) to smuggle arms to Irish rebels. He was eventually executed by the British for his revolutionary activities in 1922. <img src="http://robroy.dyndns.info/books/rec/rec2b.jpg" alt="." /> http://robroy.dyndns.info/books/rec/childers.html to William Le Queuex being described as “the first espionage novelist”. That honor is usually assingned to Erskine Childers (1874-1922) , whose “Riddle of the Sands” (1903) is not only considered the first spy novel, but a rip-roaring good sea story of considerable literary merit as well. It was written as a polemic to alert the British Admiralty that a definite threat of a cross-channel invasion of Britain by Germany acoss the North Sea existed, and the book is said to have had a great influence on English Naval policy prior to WWI.

The book is available for reading online (for free!)

http://robroy.dyndns.info/books/rec/rs.html

and I strongly suggest you take advantage of the opportunity and do so right now! A first-rate film adaptataion of the novel starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter is also available on video.

Childers was a pretty colorful character himself, and crammed quite a bit of action into his short life. Besides being a decorated war hero himself, he also worked against his own country when he adopted the cause of Irish Independence. He married a swashbuckling Irish-American heiress and used his yacht (Childers was a fine seaman) to smuggle arms to Irish rebels. He was eventually executed by the British for his revolutionary activities in 1922.

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http://robroy.dyndns.info/books/rec/childers.html

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