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Andrew Lane

@andylaneauthor.bsky.social
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Author of over 40 books and many audio scripts. Ex-military scientific advisor. Father to one, informal foster-father to another nine. Bipolar Type II, acromegaly, asthma and gallstones sufferer. All-round decent bloke.

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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you for that clarification, which is both interesting and very useful. However, my experience of Mr Straczynski is that he will rewrite history to suit his own narrative. Unfair of me? Possibly. It's all a long time ago now. And the truth is a three-edged sword.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And Krakatoa is actually West of Java, not East, despite the 1968 movie... (And yes, I know, if you travel East from Java you will eventually get to Java, but that's not the point. No, *I'm* not a pedant, *you're* a pedant).
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As I recall, it doesn't creep or crawl at all. It's built like Frankenstein's Monster.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The "There is a hole in your mind" line is in the pilot, and sets up the whole mystery of Sinclair and his link to the Minbari. And the phrase "I reckon" in your post kinda undermines your whole argument (if I can distinguish it with that description).
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I believe it was. I've mentioned you in another post. 🙂
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Equally, anyone with a disease induced by alcohol or smoking should get the minimal amount of care. They did it to themselves. And footballers and rugby players with brain injuries - let them rot. I'm being sarcastic. As, I hope, was the original post.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yah think?
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I kept waiting for Dawn to turn up as the ultimate zombie, but she never did.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
YOU'RE DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE... No, wait. My bad.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In other news, Billie Joe McAllister was pushed. Oh, and I did shoot the Deputy.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Should have had a caption saying "Fin" at the end...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He never recovered from the lead actor leaving, and the subsequent derailment of the whole "So he was ***** all along!" denouement, which allegedly was meant to be in the final episode. Also there was the whole "Telepath War" thing, which was allegedly being reserved for a movie and then... wasn't.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm impressed by the new Trump Memorial Toilet Bowl...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Posh Northern people can insert an optional 't between the preposition and the location.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And NOBODY refutes unless they are presenting actual evidence. They can only reject.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My company - Slow Decay Ltd - is similarly named after my own book (which was itself named as a reference to lyrics in Pink Floyd and Leonard Cohen songs...)
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One day we will actually work together. One day.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am looking forward to seeing those storyboards and asking you how close they were to the final eps. I was at an event with one of the Exec Producers recently where he described how Guy Ritchie would take a look at the script the night before and say "Right, I want the cameras *there* and *there*."
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We heard voices coming from the TARDIS set. Sounded like David Tennant. We also saw a blue screen area where several menacing figures in space armour and big, bulbous helmets were walking towards the camera. "Sontarans!" I cried. "Judoon," @twilightstreets.bsky.social corrected me.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I seem to remember that Ianto was originally Ydris, but @anghelides.bsky.social might remember better than my old, tired mind does.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For those of you out there who enjoy fine banter and would like to see a moderately successful author matching himself up against a comics legend, Mike Collins and I are the main guests at ArmadaCon in Plymouth on 7th and 8th November.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Happy to help... They still know. Just saying.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Escape into Night. Still scares me.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I would enter a raffle where I might win a romance, but I am married so it wouldn't be much use...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We had the first two scripts, and while we were writing we were allowed to visit the set. I remember we had to change a couple of the main characters' names because they were altered between script and filming.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ta.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wrote that! I can talk about it!
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Couldn't get the passcode on 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' to work. Worked on everything else. Is this some kind of secret Morgue Within a Morgue that only special people can access?
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, we don't do it for the fame and the fortune. We do it because that's what we do...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Helen and I were in there a month or so ago. Not the kind of thing you expect annexed to a Funko Pop emporium. A Funko Pop emporium that also happens to have, nestled in a corner, a replica Paradigm Dalek deliberately scaled down to classic Dalek size...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In my case, yes. I developed a bad lactose intolerance at the age of 60.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here Dominic doth test his eyesight during Lockdown by driving to the Castle of Barnard...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here Boris doth become ambushed by a cake...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hopefully the plan is that he will give them a detailed report and they will do the exact opposite.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And the weekend should start around 3PM on Friday.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder if Terry-Thomas based his voice on Basil Brush...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Out of interest, how does the tortoise feel about having an apex predator rubbing itself against their shell?
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Which gets put in the same rancid basket as the 1970s British "comedy" series "Curry and Chips", in which comedy legend Spike Milligan went into blackface as a Pakistani worker in a British factory. The laughs never started.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trying to find out why my DPD parcel is stuck at their delivery hub. The buttons on the website contact form don't work. The 'talk to someone' option on their phone line doesn't work. The 'contact us' option on their website takes me to DPD Croatia. I will never, ever use DPD for deliveries.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tom Baker is the one on the right.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank heavens we live in a world where someone is offering stilton insurance.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mine seems to be okay. They just hate you.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"He's developing Alzheimer's..."
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's your What Three Words location right now.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You make a fair point.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's not forget the 1983 reboot...
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm not gloating, but I would like to point out that I called it correctly.
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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stupid question - can you still taste food? If you partially or completely lose your sense of taste then the sensation of chewing can be quite unpleasant.
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