While the stories below are, perhaps obviously,
fanfiction
with the names changed to protect the archetypes, they are also the basis for
projects
intended to lead to saleable works, which in turn influence the comic
strips here.
Daily Comic Strips
First, there are
thumbnail portraits
of King Arthur in Time and Space characters as a visual aid. There
are several lineups from different times in Arthur's twenty-five year reign,
intended to help the reader identify by sight approximately when in the
characters' history(ies) each cartoon below is set. Then there's a lineup of
thumbnails showing much the same crosssection of portraits in my triangle
caricature style.
There's a calendar index chronological archive of
all active Dailies.
Stories
These stories are listed in chronological order here, and in a
timeline
of the imaginary King Arthur in Time and Space screen canon: notes
on those events you'd reasonably be expected to be familiar with if King
Arthur in Time and Space were a real screen series of which you were a
fan and of which these stories were fanfiction. For a much briefer summary,
which however includes spoilers for the stories here, see
Previously.
Prime Contact
Merlin's time machine, the Cyberpathic Anachronomatic Vehicular Extension,
first lands on the starcruiser Excalibur in the days of King Uther Pendragon,
during a fateful first contact mission.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4
Son of Olympus
Merlin's interaction with Hercules in my stories is complicated by
such elements as time anomalies and alternate universes. Here are a few
cartoon strips in a series under construction portraying events of
significance in their relationship.
Part 1 of one
Toy Story With illustration
Arthur, now high king of the Britons and captain of the Excalibur, meets
several new people whose futures are entangled with his, in this story of
Merlin's ultimate conflict with the Round Table's autonomy policy and with
collectors' mania.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3
Half A Worm
Arthur and Lancelot explore the Round Table autonomy policy's true meaning
in this sequel to the Excalibur crew's adventure with the computer-god
Vaalhaallaa.
Part 1 of one
Knights Band [unDaily]
This is a sequel to the unwritten King Arthur in Time and Space story
Too Many Cooks.
Part 1 of one
Under Siege
When Merlin and Nimue are sent by the sorcerors of Avalon in Merlin's CAVE
to the starcruiser Excalibur, King Arthur and the crew have already captured
the renegade sorceress Morgan le Fey ... or have they? Before it's over,
Arthur will get disturbing family news.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4 -
Chapter 5
C*A*V*E
A cross-section of events during the CAVE's visits to a combined Greek-Trojan
army hospital throughout the course of the Greek seige of the eponymous
capital city of the planet Troy.
Part 1 of one
Reach Out and Kill Someone
King Arthur and Merlin must avert war between two British planets. Well, not
between the planets' governments ...
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4
Eternal Truth [unDaily]
Dame Tristram asserts that some things are true in all eras of history.
Part 1 of one
The Yellow Age
The crews of the starcruiser Excalibur and the CAVE come up against their
most insidious foe yet - tabloid journalism!
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2
Things to Come [unDaily]
Merlin cues Arthur in on the wave of the future.
Part 1 of one
Transformations
Sir Lancelot is dead on the Grail planet, King Arthur is trying to come to
terms with the existence of his bastard son Sir Mordred, and Queen Guenevere
is acting funny, when the CAVE visits the Excalibur and Sir Galahad suffers a
fatal accident - and lives.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4
Historical Revision
King Arthur and the crew of a brand-new Excalibur are back out in space after
the resurrection of Lancelot and the destruction of the original Excalibur at
the Grail planet, when the Gaelic kings launch an attack on the peacekeeping
planet Glastonbury. But when Nimue - the late time-traveling sorceror
Merlin's former apprentice, and inheritor of his CAVE - appears on the
Excalibur, things are only made more complicated.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4
Back To Back To... [unDaily]
Sir Pelleas is back aboard the CAVE as Nimue's traveling companion when an
emergency leads it to ... but that would be telling.
Part 1 of one
Potpourri
Isolated incidents of importance or just interest.
Part 1 of one
Quondam Futurusque With illustration
The Latin means "once and future". Robin of Locksley, commander of Sherwood
Station on the border of Nottingham space and supposed Prophet of the Angels
of the Sherwood wormhole to Palestinian space, must face an entirely new
threat to the United Kingdoms, when Nimue uncovers the plotting of an old
nemesis - and brings help from an unexpected quarter ...
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4 -
Chapter 5 -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 7
One Child Born
Alcides of the city of Thebes on the pre-space-age planet Greece (secretly
the lion-skin-wearing hero known only as Hercules) and his wife Deianira,
after discovering that Greeks and Olympians aren't genetically compatible,
have a baby left in their home anonymously. The mystery persists until the
time-traveling sorceror Merlin drops in - just in time for all of history to
be threatened by the nemeses of both heroes.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4
Everything in Threes
Merlin and Nimue first meet Saint Pudentiana the last Fairy Bane when the
High Council of the sorcerors of Avalon transport her five hundred years into
her future ... onto the starcruiser Excalibur-E, Sir Lohengrin son of Sir
Percival commanding.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3
Posterity
The last pieces of the puzzle of Merlin's origins fall together for him on a
visit to Saint Pudentiana the Fairy Bane.
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2 -
Chapter 3
The Night Visitors
Inspired by the annual round of holiday stories on alt.*.creative in 1997,
but didn't gel to appear on this index till 2002.
Part 1 of one
More potpourri
Isolated incidents of importance or just interest.
Part 1 of one
By Her Loose Laces
Ordinarily the normal course of the timestream keeps an Avalonian
time-traveler from meeting more timebound acquaintences anachronistically.
But normality goes wanting when Nimue and her new traveling companion, young
Queen Isis of the planet Nile, land the CAVE on a new starcruiser on its
first mission, commanded by a familiar young king ...
Eight segments
For to Carry Me Home
As if the temporal cold war wasn't enough, Nimue discovers another anomaly
aboard the Excalibur. But this time she isn't the person best informed how
dangerous the anomaly is...
Chapter 1 -
Chapter 2
Once Is Not Enough
Alone in the CAVE, Nimue finds her thoughts wandering to happier times long
gone ... and accidentally sets the CAVE wandering to those times.
Part 1 of one
The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds, part one
In the battle against the Avalonians' opposition in the temporal cold war,
Morgan is obliged not only, as Lady of the Lake, to general the Avalonian
sorcerors' efforts but, as one of the major players in Arthur's history, to
impersonate the person she would have been in the alternate history ...
Part 1 of one
Something So Right
The romance in Once Is Not Enough comes together with the necessity
of timeline repair in The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds,
and Nimue gets back what she wanted back. But not quite the way she wanted
it. Part 1 contains the word you thought you'd never see in my stories.
Part 1 -
Part 2
Mixed Blessing
The night after the imaginary 2003 EXCALIBUR season premiere, halfway through
English 150 Rhetoric & Composition, the professor said, "Write a
conversation."
This is what came out.
The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds, part two
Portions of The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds set after
Mixed Blessings.
Part 1 of one