As part of our policy of listening to our readers (see comments for the Kapow! report) Leo noticed that quite a few people said they bought Mirabilis for the cabbages from Yuggoth - so here they are. In season one they just get three panels and then they're cooked, but I'm sure we haven't seen the last of them. They just need to lick the refrigeration problem. (If it's not too big of a spoiler, I have a feeling aphids will see them off in the end.) 
Moonwind by Louise Lawrence
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Louise Lawrence’s 1986 YA Moonwind is something of a thematic sibling to
her earlier novels Star Lord and Earth Witch, and though it’s ostensibly
SF, it’s ...
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Is this in any way inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft?
ReplyDeleteNo, Hamza, really not in any way at all! I have in fact read everything Lovecraft ever wrote, which I think deserves some kind of a medal, but Mirabilis's inspirations lie elsewhere: Dunsany, Sime, Machen, Hitchcock, Gaiman, Moore, The Bonzos, Collier, Milligan, many others...
ReplyDeleteI admit to voraciously reading Lovecraft's stories in my younger days as well (I think I had read them all by the age of 14 or 15). :D
ReplyDeleteIt's just that Yuggoth is a very Lovecraftian-sounding name.
I read them when I was 14 or 15 too. It's a good impressionable age for getting steeped in the Cthulhu mythos :)
ReplyDeleteOh, I see the confusion. Yes, Yuggoth is the Lovecraftian word for Pluto, so I used it in the post for fun. But I don't refer to Pluto as Yuggoth in Mirabilis - it's 1901, H P Lovecraft is only 11 years old so hasn't invented the word yet!
Strictly speaking, I shouldn't refer to it as Pluto either, as it wasn't discovered till 1930, but the cabbage-brains themselves have travelled through time and space so I guess they already knew what humans would call their planet. Whew :)
It would've been to amusing to see Venetia Burney (the girl who coined Pluto's name)to get the idea for the dwarf planet's name from the cabbage-heads, but Mirabilis takes place ten years before her birth, so that's an impossibility!
ReplyDeleteDarn, that would have been nice - but you're right, she couldn't know that because after the green comet leaves, the world reverts to normal (ie it's our world today) and the Year of Wonders is effectively a deleted file in history. And yet... Hmm, I'll have to ponder this one!
ReplyDeleteGlad to have given you a potential idea. And I just noticed a typo/grammatical error in my previous comment.
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