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It's the new millennium, and strange things are afoot on the long-deserted and distant island of Skerra, located at the point where the borders between Britain and Iceland become vague. A survey team has disappeared, but not before sending back an unsettling discovery -- a bloody jacket, 1970s style, covered in the blood of two men; [[Retired Badass|long-retired psychic detective]] Richard Jeperson, and Sewell Head, a humble sweet-shop employee and pub quiz champion. Problem is, there's only one jacket like that in the world, Jeperson owns it, and he's certainly never fought Sewell Head to the death while wearing it. Convinced that the appearance of the second jacket means that bad things are afoot on Skerra, he is convinced to come out of retirement and joins Head and others -- including Detective Sergeant Stacy Cotterill, sent by her boss (and Richard's old friend) to keep an eye on him, and pompous government scientist Adam Onions -- on a reconnaissance mission to find out exactly what's going on. Realities are beginning to weaken and merge together, however, and a dastardly evil -- Swellhead -- is rearing it's head to finish a battle that may never have began... |
It's the new millennium, and strange things are afoot on the long-deserted and distant island of Skerra, located at the point where the borders between Britain and Iceland become vague. A survey team has disappeared, but not before sending back an unsettling discovery -- a bloody jacket, 1970s style, covered in the blood of two men; [[Retired Badass|long-retired psychic detective]] Richard Jeperson, and Sewell Head, a humble sweet-shop employee and pub quiz champion. Problem is, there's only one jacket like that in the world, Jeperson owns it, and he's certainly never fought Sewell Head to the death while wearing it. Convinced that the appearance of the second jacket means that bad things are afoot on Skerra, he is convinced to come out of retirement and joins Head and others -- including Detective Sergeant Stacy Cotterill, sent by her boss (and Richard's old friend) to keep an eye on him, and pompous government scientist Adam Onions -- on a reconnaissance mission to find out exactly what's going on. Realities are beginning to weaken and merge together, however, and a dastardly evil -- Swellhead -- is rearing it's head to finish a battle that may never have began... |
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=== "Swellhead" provides examples of: === |
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* [[Alternate History]] / [[Alternate Universe]]: The story is about what happens when one of these begins to encroach on our reality. Hint -- bad things. |
* [[Alternate History]] / [[Alternate Universe]]: The story is about what happens when one of these begins to encroach on our reality. Hint -- bad things. |
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** In a meta-sense, as well as the alternate universe that forms the crux of the plot, the story also references and hints at several other [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]] and [[Alternate History|Alternate Histories]] Kim Newman has written or co-written, including ''[[Anno Dracula]]'', the ''Back In The USSA'' stories and an as-yet unpublished sequence in a Nazi-occupied Britain. Not to mention the ''[[Temps]]'' [[Shared World]]; a very different Sewell Head first appeared in "Pitbull Brittan", Newman's contribution to the first ''Temps'' anthology. |
** In a meta-sense, as well as the alternate universe that forms the crux of the plot, the story also references and hints at several other [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]] and [[Alternate History|Alternate Histories]] Kim Newman has written or co-written, including ''[[Anno Dracula]]'', the ''Back In The USSA'' stories and an as-yet unpublished sequence in a Nazi-occupied Britain. Not to mention the ''[[Temps]]'' [[Shared World]]; a very different Sewell Head first appeared in "Pitbull Brittan", Newman's contribution to the first ''Temps'' anthology. |
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