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To Soar Into the Sunset: Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Night Fury
(aka "How to Train Your Dragon with a Robert Heinlein Plot Twist")
Author´s Notes: (More Like Author's Encylopedia Britanica Volume I Nerd Edition Version 2.5, but just for this chapter) When I saw "How to Train Your Dragon" I could not get it out of my head how much Hiccup's nararation sounded like what you would read from a character in a Robert Heinlein novel- funny, sarcastic but also very thought provoking, too. I then thought it could be fun to write the movie novelization as though Robert Heinlein had written it (since he did write a lot
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Chapter 2: Life is Short But the Years are Long
(Growing up Night Fury)
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." - "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
Disclaimer: The usual. Dreamworks and Cressida Cowell came up with the basic characters. But the mother and the sisters are original characters (and they made me feed them lots of fish to be in this)
Also, no dragons were harmed in the writing of this chapter. Some were irritated by it, though.
Chapter quote is from Robert Heinlein
Fainting is highly overrated.
I came to, lying on the forbidden ground and realizing I was going to be here for a very long time. Like the
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Chapter 3: Between Continents
Disclaimer: I do not own Toothless, but some of the other characters in here are mine. They will not admit it, though. At least not when I am around. Unless I give them lots of chocolate.
The chapter quote is from Robert Heinlein
"How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?"- (Life-lines)
I'm still amazed when I consider how far I traveled. At the time I was so full of impressions from all the new things I saw that I did not realize how long the journey was. My father knew it would take a long time to reach our Signal Stone, at least most of a year. Part of
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Chapter 4: Stranger in a Strange Canyon
Disclaimers: noun: 1. a disclaiming; denial or renunciation, as of a claim, title, etc.. 2. a refusal to accept responsibility; disavowal (Origin: Anglo-Fr desclamer, inf. used as n. Webster's New World Dictionary)
Translation- All the characters in here came from Dreamworks and Cressida Cowell and their genius. Except, maybe, for the mosquitoes, wolves, birds, rain, lightning and general canyon wildlife. I created that, and it is now taking up a lot of space in my living room.
Chapter Quote is from Robert Heinlein
"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and
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Chapter 5: The Viking Who Walks Through Walls
And here's the next installment! This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie, so I hope I did it justice.
Disclaimer: I don't own dragons or Vikings, but I am owned by two cats.
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." - (R.A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones)
Morning again and I was still alive. The storm had brought in cooler weather along with mist; autumn would be on its way soon. Tiredness caught up with me, and I found myself slipping into sleep.
When I woke up again, it was just after noon. The sleep had done me a lot of good. I no longer hurt in
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Chapter 6: Have Tail Fin-- Will Travel
Disclaimer: Dis- A word meaning "not". Claimer- from the Latin 'Clamare': to cry out or shout. Put them together and it means that I don't own the characters here.
"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do." (R.A. Heinlein- Waldo & Magic, Inc)
Tonight, I kept myself busy. The confidence I had seen in the Firemaker when he left the canyon was infecting me, too. And that gives you the special "Wheehaa!" to accomplish something you could not have one hour ago.
So, I was able to snatch up a medium fish from the pond and make my way to the patterned drawings I a
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Chapter 7: The Pathway into the Sky
Disclaimer: Nope- I don't own any of the characters here. In the end, no one owns anyone and we are all doomed to be free- at least according to existential theories.
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it." - (R.A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)
The next weeks were some pretty amazing ones for me. Strange to think I was trapped in a canyon, and yet I wound up discovering facts about life and myself I would never have realized otherwise.
I had discovered by now that my Firemaker was enrolled in a clas
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Chapter 8: Mavericks of the Sky
"People don't really want change, any change at all-- and xenophobia is very deep-rooted. But we progress, as we must; if we are to go out to the stars." - (R.A. Heinlein- Double Star)
This is probably going to be one of the more Heinlein of my chapters with the idea of transmitting messages through mind implants and communicating in the dream state. Hope that's okay... Oh- and the joke about getting married at 12 years old is actually originally one of Heinlein's.
I like the Jónsi song "Sticks and Stones,' Some of it influenced this chapter, I think.
Disclaimers: Don't know m