Quote from: tomswift2002 on October 15, 2024, 05:42:19 PMYes. So the book was outdated very quickly. That's why "Strategic Moves" and "Castle Fear" are products of that 2 year period and can only take place then (I don't recall a mention of East Germany specifically, just the wall coming down). They are like the original 1929 "The Mystery of Cabin Island".It's a good books, but hard to follow due to the timeframe, and my total lack of understanding of the USSR.
Quote from: MysteryFan89 on October 15, 2024, 04:36:24 PMSo the book had come out at the end of when it being called the USSR?
Quote from: tomswift2002 on October 15, 2024, 04:10:06 PMThe wall fell on November 9, 1989, however the official German reunification did not occur until October 3, 1990, (at which time reunified Berlin became the German capital once again) and then the USSR dissolved on December 31, 1991.So the book had come out at the end of when it being called the USSR?
Quote from: MysteryFan89 on October 14, 2024, 04:22:22 PMOkay, whoever wrote this book didn't know that Kiev, USSR is now Kiev, Ukraine. I'm pretty sure the wall came down in 1990. Maybe I'm messed up on dates, but no one uses that term anymore. KGB, I think is the FSB now.
Quote from: MysteryFan89 on October 15, 2024, 03:29:57 PMIf they can find a copy.Of course by 2034, Simon & Schuster might have scanned it in a released a digital copy.
Quote from: tomswift2002 on July 25, 2024, 07:07:23 AMOver the next 10 years this book might become more collectible (At All Costs), since I just heard that Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics, 32 years after they hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics.If they can find a copy.
At All Costs is dated to the preparations for the 2002 Olympics, but it's still set in Salt Lake City, so people might want to read it in the lead up to the 2034 Olympics.
Quote from: SkyWarp on October 14, 2024, 11:32:14 PMThe Soviet Union didn't dissolve until 1991, so the book is accurate at the time it came out. But only just barely.September, 1990 is when the book came out.
QuoteStrategic Moves is heavily dated by Pyotr and Petra Zigonev and Aleksandr and Katrina Dancek being referred to as citizens of the USSR, and the Dancek's being KGB agents. Also, the Glasnost movement and the further opening of communication between the Soviet Union and Western powers (such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America) that took place in the late-1980's and early-1990's, is a major plot event in the book. Also the Berlin Wall is mentioned as having come down recently, dating Strategic Moves as occurring sometime between the 9 of November 1989 and the 31st of December 1991.
Castle Fear takes place within days of Strategic Moves. Therefore the story takes place sometime between the 9 of November, 1989 and the 31 of December, 1991.
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Quote from: CalvinKnox on September 28, 2024, 06:54:32 PMSkyfire Puzzle is quite different from the casefiles in the way that Chet takes a very active role (I don't remember this ever being the situation in the casefiles, even in the chop shop one where he's a central character (can't remember name)), and it kinda seems like all three boys (young men) are active partners in Fenton's practice.Are you thinking of Highway Robbery or was there another chop shop one?