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Youmay remember the report from a fan, deep in the American West, whobought a springer spaniel pup, or it might have been a fox terrier, andchristened it 'Moggy', as a way of preserving the memory of that othermaverick creature, Flying Officer Moggy Cattermole in Piece of Cake.(His girlfriend renamed the pooch to something she could shout in thepark without feeling embarrassed. Trapper, I think. Ormaybe Fang. Now I hear from Jane, onAmerica's East Coast. She may qualify for my Double-Digit Club,having read Goshawk Squadronmany times, and she adapts Woolley'sline: "Ah, bloody (insert name). I hate the bastard" whenshe encounters bad drivers in up-State New York - and sheimmediately feels better. Which just goes to show that fiction can bepowerful therapy. More evidence of this froman old friend, John Walsh (who actually lives in up-State New York).He's teaching inner-city kids the basics of aviation by helping thembuild model airplanes. As a way of developing a group allegiance, hesuggested they adopt a name, and so a dozen kids in Yonkers "callthemselves (very loud and very proud, by the way) HornetSquadron!". John is currently deep into my yarn of HornetSquadron, A Good Clean Fight,for the third time. The book went withhim all through the second Iraq war and back, so it's no surprise thatthe cover has fallen off. Meanwhile, Tony in Nuneatonput another of mine through its paces. He writes: "My copy of KentuckyBlues has now been read by the whole family, including my84-year-oldmother-in-law, who loved it as much as I did!" He bought copiesof Damned Good Show and Hullo Russia, Goodbye England. Hebuilds andflies radio-controlled models and - perhaps inspired byGoshawk Squadron - decided to build an SE5a. Hendon airmuseum let him take a close look at their RFC replicas. Hisreaction: "Apart from the craftsmanship of it and all the otheraircraft, my overriding impression was of their frailty. Littlewonder the numbers shot down were far outweighed by accidents,equipment failure and training." Too true. An excellent book on theRFC, The First of the Few by Denis Winter (Allen Lane 1982) quotes theofficial total of casualties at the end of the war: of 14,166 deadpilots, 8,000 had died while training in the UK. No dual controlin those days. You were on your own, the first time you tookoff. All too often it was your last.They were young (18or 19 was not uncommon) and the young laugh easily. So there washumour to be found in every squadron - or, as Alan in NewZealand sums up my war novels, "hilarious and brutal". Alan writes forthe Journal of the Wellington Science Fiction Society, but he casts hisnet widely and it takes in non-sci-fi books as well. He's readeverything I've published and his review in the Journal of HulloRussia, Goodbye England - too long to print here infull - is on (go to 'wot i red' and thengo to February 2011). It's the first novel of mine to be set in atime that he remembers. He was only a boy, but "I was neverthelessstrongly affected by the almost palpable sense of fear engendered bythe Cuban Missile Crisis. It seemed likely that the world I knew wouldnot be there when I woke up in the morning. If I woke up in themorning." And adds: "The thing that makes a DerekRobinson novel stand out from all the others that surround it is hisimpeccable understanding of history, his extraordinary ability tore-live it in context through the eyes and minds of the people to whomit is a contemporary happening, and the sharp, crackling and sometimesbreathtakingly cynical wit of his dialogue and of his observations; awit that is often laugh-out-loud funny but which makes you weep insideeven while you are laughing so very hard at the piercing truth ofit. Hullo Russia, GoodbyeEngland is a genuine tour de force." Mailarrives from elsewhere. Martin in SW6 has gone through all my books. Heread Hornet's Sting in theoffice, "surreptitiously, almost under thetable" - even the most tolerant of offices might haveraised an eyebrow if he'd read it while completely under thetable. The image of the two Russian flyers in France, "playingboth the piano and poker fast and loose, demanding duels, hasremained with me for 10+ years." Now he's suffering what anotherreader called 'withdrawal pains' and he asks urgently for "more neededfor the summer please!!" Well, I'm working on it, and I hopesomething will appear in the summer, but - just asWoolley predicted the war would be over by Christmas but whichChristmas he didn't know - I don't know which summer thenew book will be ready. I had a financial adviser called Lewis,very good at his job, who used to ask me what I would earn nextyear. I always said I hadn't the faintest idea, which caused hisbrow to furrow. There are writerly types who crank out a novel ayear, fair weather or foul. If only. Goshawk Squadron took meabout nine months to write. (I was young and didn't know any better.)Piece of Cake took fouryears, and got derailed twice on the way.Kentucky Blues was an ideathat refused to go away, but it took 25years to germinate. How long will the new yarn take? Aslong as it likes. Paul in Deal discovered Piece of Cake"when the children were young and to read half a chapter a night was anachievement". Now they're off to University and he orderedHornet's Sting. Erwin inHolland is one of my repeat offenders, havingread Cake for the 6th time.He found a secondhand copy in the UK withhis girlfriend - now his wife - 20 yearsago. He's read all the rest ("wonderful books") and nowasked for Hullo Russia. So did Joe,three thousand miles to the west in Ramsey, New Jersey. He sendsthanks for my writing: "It puts me directly in a place in history Inever knew (I'm 30 years old), and is so rich and alive that I canpractically smell aircraft exhaust and fresh cut grass." Go back nearlyfour thousand miles to the east, where Stian in Rogoland, Norway. wrotehis master's thesis on WW1 aviation and got "much enjoyment"from Goshawk Squadron, so heasked for the prequels, War Story andHornet's Sting. He served with the Norwegian Army, and says: "Youdescribe service culture quite well." Well, the military is themilitary wherever you go. Streaking south by ten thousand milestakes me to Steve in Te Anau, New Zealand. He found the samesatisfaction as Stian: "I'm ex-RAAF, so I could relate to the militaryBS between squadron and upper echelon - it still goes on."Of Goshawk Squadron he says:"I couldn't put it down, really enjoyedthe banter between pilots and the black humour, interlaced with vividdogfight scenes." Zooming up to the USA and Michael in centralIndiana ("currently reading AGood Clean Fight for the 10thtime") works in community theatre and would like to adapt my RFCtrilogy for the stage. I'm happy to give the project myblessing. 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