http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/09/obrian_10.php Comments on O'Brian, Patrick: (10) The Far Side of the World (audio) en Copyright 2008 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:07:46 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Kate wrote on September 26, 2006 at 9:30 AM: <p>I can't believe I forgot: this is also the book where O'Brian confesses, in an introductory note, that if he knew he was going to write a series he would have started further back in time, and failing that, he may resort "to hypothetical years" such as 1812a or even 1812b.</p> <p>Though, according to <a href="http://www.hmssurprise.org/Resources/timeline.html">this timeline</a>, the repeating year is actually 1813. (And I probably shouldn't have looked at that, as it has implicit spoilers for the next books. Yikes!)</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/09/obrian_10.php#c24540