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Sapphire & Steel
"Stargazing"
Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981
World International Publishing
Written by: Brenda Apsley (?)
Art by: Paul Crompton and Genn Rix (?) |
An observatory in England receives some strange signals from
space.
Read the story summary at Animus Web
Didja Know?
"Stargazing" is a 9-page text story that appeared in
Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 published by
World International Publishing.
According to Steve Holland at the
Bear Alley Books website, this story was probably written by
Brenda Apsley, with art by Paul Crompton and Genn Rix.
Twin Peaks
note: In this story, an observatory receives strange signals
from space. In
Twin Peaks,
Major Briggs worked for Listening Post Alpha on Blue Pine
Mountain, scanning for signals from space or from the ground
beneath the town of Twin Peaks.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Dr. Ernest Smalley
Professor Bateman
Simpson
Sapphire
Steel
Didja Notice?
On page 2 of the story, the security guard, Simpson, punches
Steel. The blow has no effect on Steel and Simpson feels
like his hand hit a wall of cast iron. Is Steel made of
steel?
Simpson thinks to himself he's going to need knuckle dusters
if he's to confront "that Hercules" (Steel) again.
Hercules was the Roman name for the Greek hero/demigod
Heracles,
who had prodigious strength.
Dr. Smalley tells Sapphire and
Steel that the observatory he works at is in Northumberland
and is the finest in the country with the exception of
Jodrell
Bank.
Northumberland is a county is northeast England. There
are a number of observatories in Northumberland, but I don't
know that any of them are said to be second only to Jodrell.
Dr. Smalley's observatory receives coded
mathematic messages from the star Zinon-4 in the galaxy of
Elysia. This galaxy and star appear to be fictitious. It's
not clear whether Dr. Smalley was aware of a galaxy called
Elysia; he doesn't remark on the names given to him by
Sapphire and Steel. It's also not clear whether Sapphire and
Steel were aware of the star and galaxy before this.
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