Unofficial Tex Murphy

Hmm.. the Donnelly connection. Yep it's a puzzle.

Personally, There were times I let the PI die just so I could hear James Earl Jones telling him to watch his ass better. There is almot nothing to compare that man's voice to and it's downright chilling to hear him quoting Poe.

Not to mention, "This....... is CNN"

Hahahaaa!!!!! Nice one!

Honestly, I haven't watch television in about 10 years now. My favorite tv shows used to be Married with Children and X-files back when Dichovny (Awful spelling I know) was HOT! Ok, at least I thought he was. Now, I have no inerest in tv and It gets on my nerves when I visit family and the darn thing is on 24-7 a "background" noise.

We have a nice video collection to watch. One of my all time favorites is I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, a Wayans family show.

I recently listened to all the Radio Theater episodes again, and wow, it's amazing how well it fits with Tesla Effect. Tex wakes up naked in a house, and was being held there while some people were presumably doing something to him. Why did they keep him? What did they do? Then dreams are there, complete with some words that Donnelly actually says in TE. It was happening even then.

Actually, the radio episodes make more sense after playing TE. If any of you haven't heard them recently, try it again:
http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/case ... /index.php

silvermitt wrote: I've played them all, with the exception of Tesla Effect, and Sonny isn't ringing my bell. Which one was he in again?

Sonny is another PI Tex meets in Overseer. In a way, he's a living warning to Tex about what he will become as he goes deeper into the PI life.

Thank you. I'll be getting to Overseer soon, I imagine.

Between the kids' 3 library summer reading programs, YMCA activities (yoga for the butt...oh how I pray it helps!), huge gardens to weed & feed.... well, I have to play the games late in the evening right before bedtime with the kids. So it goes slowly.

But I am happy to report, I am raising two for a future generation of Tex fans and lovers of fedora hats.

LOL, that's it, get 'em early, indoctrinate them young

Excuse the slight bump, but this discussion is EXTREMELY reminiscent of UBIK, the other Phil K Dick masterpiece (and I'd say, superior in every way to his Electric Sheep, known as Blade Runner).

It's impossible to summarize UBIK, or how both situations are very akin to one another, but I'm thinking Aaron was going for this ambiguity on purpose, seeing as his latest work poses the same kind of metaphysical questions Dick was obsessed with.

And, much like UBIK, there is also a third possibility to contemplate in this fun discussion. Donnelly may still be in his coldpac as we speak, and everything else is the resulting fantasy of cryogenic coma designed to keep the brain functioning and to allow the man to keep his sanity. (another trope of Phil K Dick).

Following UBIK's trail, there is also a fourth path. Donnelly is still in his coldpac, but instead of a cryo-induced dream, there is direct connection between the "Half-Life" and the "real life", and whatever Donnelly is coming up with in his cryogenic coma has a tangible but fuzzy influence on the world.

If you have the time to sprint through this small novel, I think you gang would gain much from reading UBIK, before returning to this topic

I understand where you're coming from, Frank. In fact, I grok.

-Fred

Perhaps, but we all know Dick was a bit of a kook.