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Calder
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Copies of most of the stories in this forum.

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I have copies of most of the stories that were in this forum. Would it be helpful for me to repost them? My only big issue is I don't know which ones are published and shouldn't be reposted and which ones I am free to do so.
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Re: Copies of most of the stories in this forum.

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Calder wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:24 pm I have copies of most of the stories that were in this forum. Would it be helpful for me to repost them? My only big issue is I don't know which ones are published and shouldn't be reposted and which ones I am free to do so.
I'm specifically replying to what ones are or aren't published? I would say post all of the stories, and if any then needed to be removed, to then do so.
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Re: Copies of most of the stories in this forum.

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Calder wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:24 pm I have copies of most of the stories that were in this forum. Would it be helpful for me to repost them? My only big issue is I don't know which ones are published and shouldn't be reposted and which ones I am free to do so.
Easiest way would be to post a list of stories you have, and we can then post which ones are published vs which ones are not.

Were you able to save any of the comments? That’s the real gold.
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Re: Copies of most of the stories in this forum.

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Johnnie Lyle wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:19 pm
Calder wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:24 pm I have copies of most of the stories that were in this forum. Would it be helpful for me to repost them? My only big issue is I don't know which ones are published and shouldn't be reposted and which ones I am free to do so.
Easiest way would be to post a list of stories you have, and we can then post which ones are published vs which ones are not.

Were you able to save any of the comments? That’s the real gold.
No, that would have been far too much work at the time. It would have made the stories almost unreadable. I will see what I can do about getting a list of the stories.
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Here is the list that I have. I lost winter warriors and a few of the older stories in a move. I have fixed a bunch of spelling and grammar errors in the stories and changed the formatting some so there might be minor differences with the originals.

Directory of C:\Intel\stories\Big_One\Armageddon

07/07/2022 02:12 PM 848,322 Armageddon.docx
07/27/2022 09:56 AM 47,860 Lords of War.docx
07/27/2022 08:08 AM 768,040 Pentheocide.docx
3 File(s) 1,664,222 bytes

Directory of C:\Intel\stories\Big_One\Long Stories

06/27/2022 03:14 PM 508,384 #330 BC - Decimating the Diodoch.docx
12/19/2013 02:47 PM 19,427 #330 BC - Diodoch Cast list.docx
05/26/2022 08:15 AM 84,929 0892 - Royal Court.docx
08/31/2017 08:12 AM 217,993 1746 Drummossie Moor.docx
07/29/2022 08:35 AM 445,956 1941 - Conflict of Interest.docx
05/25/2022 08:40 AM 511,181 1943 - Kazan Thunderbolts.docx
05/24/2022 08:53 AM 462,905 1944 - Spiral of Destruction.docx
12/13/2013 01:14 PM 78,723 1969 - Home of the Brave.docx
05/13/2022 12:42 PM 292,106 2545 - Intersteller Highway.docx
05/13/2022 03:14 PM 54,814 2550 - Unto The Tenth Generation.docx

10 File(s) 2,676,418 bytes

Directory of C:\Intel\stories\Big_One\Long Stories\Detective

09/06/2016 08:25 AM 84,069 1944 - Eye of the Marauder.docx
01/30/2017 09:39 AM 126,207 1944A - Eye of the Confessor.docx
12/20/2013 04:13 PM 241,412 1970 - Division by Zero -Characters.docx
03/09/2016 09:22 AM 181,485 1970 - Division by Zero.docx
11/30/2015 09:44 AM 108,084 1994 - Eye of the Abductor.docx
10/08/2014 08:04 AM 237,585 1996 - Division by Class.docx
01/05/2016 02:15 PM 111,878 1996 - Eye of the Smuggler.docx
02/24/2016 09:18 AM 91,119 1997 - Eye of the Forger.docx
04/04/2016 08:39 AM 114,923 1998 - Eye of the Buccaneer.docx
06/27/2016 01:02 PM 140,079 1998 - Eye of the Poisoner.docx
10/10/2016 08:47 AM 176,221 2000 - Eye of the Gangster.docx
05/24/2022 10:00 AM 113,281 2003 - The Melancholia of Percy the Pig.docx
05/23/2018 08:35 AM 175,486 2005 - Destroying Angle.docx
01/02/2019 11:37 AM 168,912 2006 - Eye of the Banker.docx
04/10/2019 08:06 AM 83,050 2007 - Eye of the Cruiser.docx
05/24/2019 09:18 AM 109,599 2008 - Eye of the Nighthawker.docx
08/26/2019 10:27 AM 78,699 2009 - Eye of the Survivor.docx
03/10/2020 08:35 AM 97,916 2010 - Eye of the Negotiator.docx
18 File(s) 2,440,005 bytes

Directory of C:\Intel\stories\Big_One\Short Stories

12/12/2013 02:55 PM 27,562 #1200 - Four Jugs of Wine.docx
12/12/2013 02:57 PM 36,986 #1200 - Two Beggars.docx
12/12/2013 02:54 PM 39,616 #1202 - One Ring.docx
12/12/2013 02:57 PM 36,986 #1210 - Two Beggars.docx
12/12/2013 02:54 PM 39,616 #1220 - One Ring.docx
12/12/2013 03:37 PM 20,196 @330 - A Cup for Parmenio.docx
12/12/2013 03:26 PM 24,579 0009 - Three Eagles.docx
12/12/2013 04:18 PM 23,813 0060 - The Wooden Sword.docx
12/12/2013 03:30 PM 34,021 1669 - The Green Grass of Home.docx
05/12/2022 08:41 AM 23,452 1807 - Damn the Democrats.docx
12/12/2013 03:33 PM 25,502 1862 - A Beautiful Lady.docx
12/12/2013 04:19 PM 22,692 1922 - Ambush.docx
12/12/2013 04:39 PM 23,722 1927 - A White Knight.docx
12/13/2013 10:44 AM 37,958 1939 - Rocky Times.docx
05/11/2022 03:45 PM 22,152 1940 - The Eye of Odin.docx
12/13/2013 11:01 AM 21,623 1941 - Burning Bridges.docx
12/13/2013 11:19 AM 25,715 1942 - Changing the Guard.docx
12/13/2013 11:21 AM 23,512 1942 - Resistance.docx
12/20/2013 04:30 PM 26,934 1945 - Angle in the Mist.docx
05/14/2020 02:39 PM 85,226 1945 - Tilting The Balance.docx
12/13/2013 11:35 AM 18,238 1947 - A Bomber Called Curt.docx
12/13/2013 11:30 AM 43,576 1947 - A Phoenix needs its ashes.docx
12/13/2013 11:31 AM 24,226 1947 - The Guiding Light.docx
12/13/2013 12:05 PM 26,943 1948 - Blocking Action.docx
12/13/2013 12:07 PM 34,271 1949 - Patron of the Arts.docx
12/13/2013 12:08 PM 26,459 1950 - Cosmetic Factors.docx
12/13/2013 12:09 PM 21,232 1955 - Civis Americanus Sum.docx
12/13/2013 12:11 PM 22,307 1957 - Unorgnaized Militia.docx
12/13/2013 12:12 PM 17,482 1960 - Cloud Wars.docx
12/13/2013 12:17 PM 17,196 1965 - Surfing the Sand.docx
12/13/2013 01:06 PM 40,049 1966 - The Dish.docx
12/13/2013 01:07 PM 23,275 1967 - Revival Meeting.docx
12/13/2013 01:08 PM 25,130 1968 - A Matter of Returns.docx
01/28/2014 02:12 PM 82,034 1969 - Home of the Brave.docx
05/11/2022 03:23 PM 22,027 1970 - A Cherry Blossom Falls.docx
12/31/2013 03:23 PM 22,787 1971 - A Pirates Life for Me.docx
05/11/2017 01:48 PM 17,648 1980 - A Palpable Hit.docx
12/19/2013 01:07 PM 23,664 1986 - Demonic Possession.docx
12/19/2013 01:08 PM 27,660 1990 - Templar Night.docx
12/19/2013 01:13 PM 22,313 1990 - Ten Plagues.docx
12/19/2013 01:14 PM 17,860 1993 - Star of Wonder.docx
12/19/2013 01:15 PM 19,961 1995 - The Air Show.docx
12/19/2013 01:17 PM 18,951 2001 - At Dawn they Fiddled.docx
12/19/2013 01:26 PM 18,468 2002 - Mission Statement.docx
12/19/2013 01:29 PM 30,287 2003 - Dreams.docx
12/19/2013 01:27 PM 30,355 2003 - Shadows from the Past.docx
04/24/2017 09:16 AM 99,407 2004 - The Blue Lamp.docx
12/19/2013 01:34 PM 22,729 2006 - Nightmares.docx
03/14/2017 08:59 AM 15,144 2008 - A Job Well Done Is Its Own Reward.docx
12/19/2013 01:36 PM 19,584 2008 - Even Demons have their Demons.docx
12/19/2013 01:37 PM 18,279 2009 - Burns Night.docx
06/27/2017 08:43 AM 19,418 2018 - Ascension.docx
05/11/2022 03:02 PM 21,416 2044 - Exodus.docx
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Decimating the Diodoch was published as "Alexander's Generals". In fact, I can see it from where I'm sitting, so I would VERY strongly recommend we don't repost that one!

I think we are in the clear with reposting the Lords of War series, as per Stuart, the Ukrainian bastard who stuck it up on Bittorrent ruined the copyright for Stuart and muddied the waters sufficiently that there was no possibility of publishing in any normal context.

Kazan Thunderbolts is another one that was published. I did the spellchecking and such on that one. Same thing. Reposting would be.... bad.

Was there another story set in the far future besides Intersteller Highway and Unto the Tenth Generation? I seem to recall that Chewbacca wrote one of those, but I don't remember if it was one of those two or if it was another one. I also seem to recall that Chewbacca ran out of time and muse and never finished his story. Isn't he still occasionally active on one of the other AH sites? Might be worth it to reach out to him to see if he would object to a reposting.

Royal Court was the one Stuart was working on when he died, wasn't it? Same with Spiral of Destruction? Or had he run into serious plot problems, and had abandoned it?

I believe that Drummossie Moor and Home of the Brave were planned to go into dead tree form, and we probably shouldn't repost until we can confirm one way or the other if something is planned for it.

A large number of the detective stories were published in dead tree form, but not all of them. Conrad's Eye, and Conrad's Other Eye were the titles, I think. Something like 6 in each book? Maybe?

I don't think any of the short stories were published, but I could be wrong.

Anyway, this is my understanding of the situation. I'm not a lawyer, so I may not be correct. Don't take what I say here as gospel.

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Re: Copies of most of the stories in this forum.

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Belushi TD wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 6:21 pm Decimating the Diodoch was published as "Alexander's Generals". In fact, I can see it from where I'm sitting, so I would VERY strongly recommend we don't repost that one!

I think we are in the clear with reposting the Lords of War series, as per Stuart, the Ukrainian bastard who stuck it up on Bittorrent ruined the copyright for Stuart and muddied the waters sufficiently that there was no possibility of publishing in any normal context.

Kazan Thunderbolts is another one that was published. I did the spellchecking and such on that one. Same thing. Reposting would be.... bad.

Was there another story set in the far future besides Intersteller Highway and Unto the Tenth Generation? I seem to recall that Chewbacca wrote one of those, but I don't remember if it was one of those two or if it was another one. I also seem to recall that Chewbacca ran out of time and muse and never finished his story. Isn't he still occasionally active on one of the other AH sites? Might be worth it to reach out to him to see if he would object to a reposting.

Royal Court was the one Stuart was working on when he died, wasn't it? Same with Spiral of Destruction? Or had he run into serious plot problems, and had abandoned it?

I believe that Drummossie Moor and Home of the Brave were planned to go into dead tree form, and we probably shouldn't repost until we can confirm one way or the other if something is planned for it.

A large number of the detective stories were published in dead tree form, but not all of them. Conrad's Eye, and Conrad's Other Eye were the titles, I think. Something like 6 in each book? Maybe?

I don't think any of the short stories were published, but I could be wrong.

Anyway, this is my understanding of the situation. I'm not a lawyer, so I may not be correct. Don't take what I say here as gospel.

Belushi TD
I would suggest if we post these, we post it for members only, just in case.
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Re: Copies of most of the stories in this forum.

Post by Calder »

Assuming there isn't an edit window I guess I can edit the above post and remove them. After a couple of weeks or so I could start posting them. Can the admin bulk post stories? The long stories would take a LOT of work to breakup into individual posts to repost on this site.
Belushi TD wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 6:21 pm Decimating the Diodoch was published as "Alexander's Generals". In fact, I can see it from where I'm sitting, so I would VERY strongly recommend we don't repost that one!
Removed from post above.

Kazan Thunderbolts is another one that was published. I did the spellchecking and such on that one. Same thing. Reposting would be.... bad.
Removed from post above.

Was there another story set in the far future besides Intersteller Highway and Unto the Tenth Generation? I seem to recall that Chewbacca wrote one of those, but I don't remember if it was one of those two or if it was another one. I also seem to recall that Chewbacca ran out of time and muse and never finished his story. Isn't he still occasionally active on one of the other AH sites? Might be worth it to reach out to him to see if he would object to a reposting.
Interseller Highway is Stuart's. I think I recall a 2nd story but I don't have it.
Unto the Tenth Generation is Chewbacca. It isn't finished but it is one of my favorites and I hope Chewbacca will come back to it someday and finish it.


Royal Court was the one Stuart was working on when he died, wasn't it? Same with Spiral of Destruction? Or had he run into serious plot problems, and had abandoned it?

Royal court isn't finished. Spiral of Destruction is finished. Did Spiral get published?

I believe that Drummossie Moor and Home of the Brave were planned to go into dead tree form, and we probably shouldn't repost until we can confirm one way or the other if something is planned for it.
Will not do anything with these until hear more.

A large number of the detective stories were published in dead tree form, but not all of them. Conrad's Eye, and Conrad's Other Eye were the titles, I think. Something like 6 in each book? Maybe?
I suspect it will be easier to list the detective stories that aren't published than to list the ones that are but I don't have any information on those. I THINK none of the Achillea stories were published. I also think some of the "Eye of".
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Spiral of Destruction was finished.

What was only partly done (8 or so chapters only) was Tilting the Balance, set sometime after Kazan Thunderbolts. Monty now commands the 356th and they are flying P-80Cs.

Not listed are the two "Division" novellas, Division by Zero and Division by Class, which feature 'Lea mostly.

Craig, if you bought the site as is, including content as alluded to in another thread, then you may have sufficient rights to decide what comes of the rest, though I cannot be certain with US IP law.

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Re: Copies of most of the stories in this forum.

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Firstly, I remember that Theodore posted both the Decimating the Diodoch and Drummossie Moor on the "Old Board", but they were also registered users only, which Craiglxviii has confirmed can be done, here, as well (limiting access to registered users). I'm not really arguing one way or the other, just pointing out they've been previously posted, in the Forums, even after one, at least, got published.

Secondly, as refers to the "Eye of... Series", I've opened the books on Kindle, and the following are in the books:

overarching book: Conrad's Eye
Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Deceiver
Eye of the Imposter
Eye of the Pretender

overarching book: Conrad's Other Eye
Eye of the Gambler
Eye of the Marauder
Eye of the Confessor
Eye of the Despoiler
Eye of the Hunter

Then you get into the introduction of Angel, and the following stories in Conrad's Angel
Eye of the Abductor
Eye of the Smuggler
Eye of the Forger
Eye of the Buccaneer
Eye of the Poisoner

As for the other published stories, in the TBO-verse, firstly, I think most of us have bought them, at least on Kindle, like I did. Secondly, since we have the ability to restrict access to registered users, I think those stories, could be reposted, but should be restricted as mentioned above.
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Just my two cents here. I have no idea how much money Stuart may have been making from the published works, but doesn't reposting any of Stuart's published stories amount to taking money from his widow?
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Spiral of Destruction was in the copy editing phase when the pandemic hit, and so it never advanced to publication.
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James1978 wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:30 pm Just my two cents here. I have no idea how much money Stuart may have been making from the published works, but doesn't reposting any of Stuart's published stories amount to taking money from his widow?
Stuart pulled the text down when a novel was published, leaving a blank novel post but preserving the commentary.

If we’re able to restore the comment threads, that would be my suggestion - no novel, just our reactions and discussion - for any published works.
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JBG wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:43 pm Spiral of Destruction was finished.

What was only partly done (8 or so chapters only) was Tilting the Balance, set sometime after Kazan Thunderbolts. Monty now commands the 356th and they are flying P-80Cs.
Hmmm, I'm surprised I don't have that one.

Not listed are the two "Division" novellas, Division by Zero and Division by Class, which feature 'Lea mostly.
They are both up there. They are listed under the detective directory.

Craig, if you bought the site as is, including content as alluded to in another thread, then you may have sufficient rights to decide what comes of the rest, though I cannot be certain with US IP law.
Is it possible to just restore the old stuff without having to post it all? Posting it will take a LOT of work.

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James1978 wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:30 pm Just my two cents here. I have no idea how much money Stuart may have been making from the published works, but doesn't reposting any of Stuart's published stories amount to taking money from his widow?
Pretty much yes, which is why I am trying to figure out what has been published first.
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Johnnie Lyle wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:44 pm
James1978 wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:30 pm Just my two cents here. I have no idea how much money Stuart may have been making from the published works, but doesn't reposting any of Stuart's published stories amount to taking money from his widow?
Stuart pulled the text down when a novel was published, leaving a blank novel post but preserving the commentary.

If we’re able to restore the comment threads, that would be my suggestion - no novel, just our reactions and discussion - for any published works.
If we can just bring back the original threads that would save me a LOT of work. Reposting all of this would take a LONG time. Does the admin have the ability to do that?
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The stories in red I don’t have either because they are too old or possibly their name were changed for publication.

overarching book: Conrad's Eye
Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Deceiver
Eye of the Imposter
Eye of the Pretender

I think these are all older stories I lost in a move. (I lost everything done between Great Game and Winter Warriors.)

overarching book: Conrad's Other Eye
Eye of the Gambler
Eye of the Marauder
Eye of the Confessor
Eye of the Despoiler
Eye of the Hunter

Anyone know if the ones in Red above had a different name before publication?

Then you get into the introduction of Angel, and the following stories in Conrad's Angel
All of these have a strikethrough now.
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Calder wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:41 pm If we can just bring back the original threads that would save me a LOT of work. Reposting all of this would take a LONG time. Does the admin have the ability to do that?
Of the ones that will be posted, would it perhaps be easier to just post them as attachments (stored locally on the server)? The file sizes don't appear to be burdensome. And they could be zipped up into one or a few files as well. Not sure if the hosting provider supports local uploads, though...
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Lukexcom wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:21 pm
Calder wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:41 pm If we can just bring back the original threads that would save me a LOT of work. Reposting all of this would take a LONG time. Does the admin have the ability to do that?
Of the ones that will be posted, would it perhaps be easier to just post them as attachments (stored locally on the server)? The file sizes don't appear to be burdensome. And they could be zipped up into one or a few files as well. Not sure if the hosting provider supports local uploads, though...
Unfortunately it doesn’t support local uploads, we would have to run this through IT support. Not impossible though, just will take a bit of planning.
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Sadly, I think I lost Sceptered Isle when my old PC died. :cry:
It did need a bit of a re-write anyway.
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