From: Michael Pederson <mike at nthzine.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The return of that Victorian cad, bounder, coward . . .
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:04:37 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Very cool! Something to look forward to.

I had someone come up to me after I did a Harry Potter panel at some
con and ask me if I has considered that some day in the future we may
get a series of books told from Malfoy's point of view done up like the
Flashman Papers. That would be kinda neat.

Michael D. Pederson
Publisher/Editor
Nth Degree

On Oct 25, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:

> Flashman on the March
> March 2005
> UK only, so far.
>
> What, you haven't read Flashman?  Gadzooks!
>
> Amazon.co.uk's description of the first book in the "series" Flashman:
>
> "The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting
> rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a
> reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan. Expelled from Rugby for
> drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's
> mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord
> Cardigan's Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills
> as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97
> ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before
> being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan
> adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic
> disaster,
> the Retreat from Kabul."
>
> mjw
>