Making progress

Okay, serial numbers filed off. There's still similarity, but it's of a "These use the same theme" rather than "the author must have read _____". And it's neither a particularly uncommon theme, nor one of Heinlein's better known works, so I had no proof that anyone else would have made the connection anyway. I just had the idea, went "hey that works," followed by "wait, that seems more like a memory than an idea," followed by "oh wait, I know where I read this before..."

Now I just need to know why [2nd named character] gets killed/disappears at the end of the section, so that I can lay ground work to make it not unexpected. If I could do without this, I could just start writing and hope I find out along the way, but this is part of the differentiation from the other work in question...

Okay, this meme was too fun to pass up

I encountered the WikiFlickrQuote meme by way of zastrazzi and had to give it a try.

Instructions:

1. The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.

2. The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations page is the title of your album.

3. The third picture in Flickr's Interesting Photos From The Last 7 Days will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics programme of choice to throw them together, and post the result.

( My results behind the cut )