XBook Chapter 24 - William Schemes (Or Mixed Messages + New contexts)

Daniel's Nemesis Podcast

WARNING: Some graphic and violent content in this episode.

XBook is the surreal story of a fighter pilot stopping an alien invasion in December 1918, just as the war has finished.

Looked at from another point of view, XBook is the story of the leader of an entire alien race wondering how best to get his citizens onto Earth.

It’s kind of two books rolled into one as the same events get scrutinised from different angles.

One is very inward looking, the other is just bat-shit surreal.

After reading the chapter, and I’m very happy to be reintroducing this element, I analyse the chapter trying to work out what was going on in my mind a couple of decades ago when this got written.

So, what’s happened so far?

Attempting a small invasion (having first given notice), the Trascons lost out in a counterattack from the humans.

Commandeering one of those alien fighter craft, our human protagonist, Ginger, is now on his way into space to take on the aliens single-handedly.

As the Trascon Leader, William, launches a massive invasion, Ginger is unable to do anything as his stolen ship is caught in a tractor-beam and is being pulled towards the alien fleet.

Just remember:

This is fiction, always fiction. Logic is as logic does.

02:50 - Chapter 24 - William Schemes

28:51 - General Notes

34:40 - The Psychologist’s Chair

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