I finally got around to making this. YAY.
When I first heard of it, I thought the book was going to be interesting only for its Lost-related content. I was pleasantly surprised to fijd that I was wrong. Bad Twin is a great piece of literature that I couldn't put down!
Secondly, the book really doesn't have that much information on The Hanso Foundation, or anything that would be too insulting to them.
A Note From The Editors:
It is with a mix of pride and sorrow that Hyperion presents Bad Twin, the last novel by a wonderful author who was taken from us in the very prime of his writing life. As many readers are already aware, Gary Troup has been missing since September 2004, when the jetliner that was carrying him from Sydney to Los Angeles crashed somewhere over the South Pacific. While nothing is more human than to hope for miracles, reason tells us that the author and his fellow travelers cannot have survived this disaster.
As his books so vividly attest, Gary Troup was a master of quiet irony; perhaps he would have savored the but undeniable irony of his own demise en route to Sydney. In recent years, Australia had become an increasingly important part in his life; he loved the land Down Under, and the land Down Under seemed to love him back. A new relationship was discovering him in the Antipodes; he seemed reenergized by the acceptance he found there, as evidenced by the letters that follow-correspondence that Troup shared with us when submitting his manuscript, just days before departing on his fateful journey.
But it wasn't business alone that accounted for the author's increasingly frequent trans-Pacific travels. Somewhere in the skies above the ocean, he seemed to have found a great romance-and this, to those of us that knew him well, came as a delightful surprise. Gary Troup was a confirmed bachelor. Long on charm, but short on commitment, he's keep his affections in check-until he met Cindy Chandler, a flight attendant on Oceanic Airlines. All indications are that he was completely smitten with her: It is to Cindy that he dedicated this book; with characteristic slyness, he even gave her a cameo role to play... If death can ever be kind, perhaps it was a kindness that the new lovers were lost in the same catastrophe, neither having to mourn the other.
This passage illustrates that Gary Troup was on Oceanic Flight 815. Wether or not he is alive or dead is questionable.
Secondly, Cindy Chandler was one of the people on the tail of the plane. When the group was walking to meet the other survivors, she disapeared. She is presumably captured by the others or dead. *tear, tear*
When I first heard of it, I thought the book was going to be interesting only for its Lost-related content. I was pleasantly surprised to fijd that I was wrong. Bad Twin is a great piece of literature that I couldn't put down!
Secondly, the book really doesn't have that much information on The Hanso Foundation, or anything that would be too insulting to them.
The Editors
A Note From The Editors:
It is with a mix of pride and sorrow that Hyperion presents Bad Twin, the last novel by a wonderful author who was taken from us in the very prime of his writing life. As many readers are already aware, Gary Troup has been missing since September 2004, when the jetliner that was carrying him from Sydney to Los Angeles crashed somewhere over the South Pacific. While nothing is more human than to hope for miracles, reason tells us that the author and his fellow travelers cannot have survived this disaster.
As his books so vividly attest, Gary Troup was a master of quiet irony; perhaps he would have savored the but undeniable irony of his own demise en route to Sydney. In recent years, Australia had become an increasingly important part in his life; he loved the land Down Under, and the land Down Under seemed to love him back. A new relationship was discovering him in the Antipodes; he seemed reenergized by the acceptance he found there, as evidenced by the letters that follow-correspondence that Troup shared with us when submitting his manuscript, just days before departing on his fateful journey.
But it wasn't business alone that accounted for the author's increasingly frequent trans-Pacific travels. Somewhere in the skies above the ocean, he seemed to have found a great romance-and this, to those of us that knew him well, came as a delightful surprise. Gary Troup was a confirmed bachelor. Long on charm, but short on commitment, he's keep his affections in check-until he met Cindy Chandler, a flight attendant on Oceanic Airlines. All indications are that he was completely smitten with her: It is to Cindy that he dedicated this book; with characteristic slyness, he even gave her a cameo role to play... If death can ever be kind, perhaps it was a kindness that the new lovers were lost in the same catastrophe, neither having to mourn the other.
This passage illustrates that Gary Troup was on Oceanic Flight 815. Wether or not he is alive or dead is questionable.
Secondly, Cindy Chandler was one of the people on the tail of the plane. When the group was walking to meet the other survivors, she disapeared. She is presumably captured by the others or dead. *tear, tear*
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