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Arthur, King of Time and Space

Paul Gadzikowski
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King Arthur in Time and Space

Last updated 01/21/05
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The common premise of these comic strips and stories, fanfiction-based or "original", is that the King Arthur legends are translated into space opera. King Arthur prefers taking the Round Table flagship Excalibur out for exploration to ruling the planets of British space. Sir Lancelot is his science officer and Queen Guenevere is ship's doctor. Merlin is a wandering time traveler in a time machine called a CAVE, which at his death is inherited by his apprentice and lover Nimue. Recurring villains include the Saxons who constantly try to invade British space, the Gaelic kings of Britain who are technically Arthur's vassals (three of whom are his brothers-in-law), the alien Dragons, and the sorceress Morgan le Fey who is Arthur's half-sister and Merlin's onetime apprentice.

While the stories below are, perhaps obviously, fanfiction with the names changed to protect the archetypes, they are also the basis for projects intended to lead to saleable works, which in turn influence the comic strips here.

Daily Comic Strips

First, there are thumbnail portraits of King Arthur in Time and Space characters as a visual aid. There are several lineups from different times in Arthur's twenty-five year reign, intended to help the reader identify by sight approximately when in the characters' history(ies) each cartoon below is set. Then there's a lineup of thumbnails showing much the same crosssection of portraits in my triangle caricature style.

There's a calendar index chronological archive of all active Dailies.

Stories

These stories are listed in chronological order here, and in a timeline of the imaginary King Arthur in Time and Space screen canon: notes on those events you'd reasonably be expected to be familiar with if King Arthur in Time and Space were a real screen series of which you were a fan and of which these stories were fanfiction. For a much briefer summary, which however includes spoilers for the stories here, see Previously.

Prime Contact
Merlin's time machine, the Cyberpathic Anachronomatic Vehicular Extension, first lands on the starcruiser Excalibur in the days of King Uther Pendragon, during a fateful first contact mission.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

Son of Olympus
Merlin's interaction with Hercules in my stories is complicated by such elements as time anomalies and alternate universes. Here are a few cartoon strips in a series under construction portraying events of significance in their relationship.
Part 1 of one

Toy Story With illustration
Arthur, now high king of the Britons and captain of the Excalibur, meets several new people whose futures are entangled with his, in this story of Merlin's ultimate conflict with the Round Table's autonomy policy and with collectors' mania.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3

Half A Worm
Arthur and Lancelot explore the Round Table autonomy policy's true meaning in this sequel to the Excalibur crew's adventure with the computer-god Vaalhaallaa.
Part 1 of one

Knights Band [unDaily]
This is a sequel to the unwritten King Arthur in Time and Space story Too Many Cooks.
Part 1 of one

Under Siege
When Merlin and Nimue are sent by the sorcerors of Avalon in Merlin's CAVE to the starcruiser Excalibur, King Arthur and the crew have already captured the renegade sorceress Morgan le Fey ... or have they? Before it's over, Arthur will get disturbing family news.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5

C*A*V*E
A cross-section of events during the CAVE's visits to a combined Greek-Trojan army hospital throughout the course of the Greek seige of the eponymous capital city of the planet Troy.
Part 1 of one

Reach Out and Kill Someone
King Arthur and Merlin must avert war between two British planets. Well, not between the planets' governments ...
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

Eternal Truth [unDaily]
Dame Tristram asserts that some things are true in all eras of history.
Part 1 of one

The Yellow Age
The crews of the starcruiser Excalibur and the CAVE come up against their most insidious foe yet - tabloid journalism!
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2

Things to Come [unDaily]
Merlin cues Arthur in on the wave of the future.
Part 1 of one

Transformations
Sir Lancelot is dead on the Grail planet, King Arthur is trying to come to terms with the existence of his bastard son Sir Mordred, and Queen Guenevere is acting funny, when the CAVE visits the Excalibur and Sir Galahad suffers a fatal accident - and lives.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

Historical Revision
King Arthur and the crew of a brand-new Excalibur are back out in space after the resurrection of Lancelot and the destruction of the original Excalibur at the Grail planet, when the Gaelic kings launch an attack on the peacekeeping planet Glastonbury. But when Nimue - the late time-traveling sorceror Merlin's former apprentice, and inheritor of his CAVE - appears on the Excalibur, things are only made more complicated.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

Back To Back To... [unDaily]
Sir Pelleas is back aboard the CAVE as Nimue's traveling companion when an emergency leads it to ... but that would be telling.
Part 1 of one

Potpourri
Isolated incidents of importance or just interest.
Part 1 of one

Quondam Futurusque With illustration
The Latin means "once and future". Robin of Locksley, commander of Sherwood Station on the border of Nottingham space and supposed Prophet of the Angels of the Sherwood wormhole to Palestinian space, must face an entirely new threat to the United Kingdoms, when Nimue uncovers the plotting of an old nemesis - and brings help from an unexpected quarter ...
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7

One Child Born
Alcides of the city of Thebes on the pre-space-age planet Greece (secretly the lion-skin-wearing hero known only as Hercules) and his wife Deianira, after discovering that Greeks and Olympians aren't genetically compatible, have a baby left in their home anonymously. The mystery persists until the time-traveling sorceror Merlin drops in - just in time for all of history to be threatened by the nemeses of both heroes.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

Everything in Threes
Merlin and Nimue first meet Saint Pudentiana the last Fairy Bane when the High Council of the sorcerors of Avalon transport her five hundred years into her future ... onto the starcruiser Excalibur-E, Sir Lohengrin son of Sir Percival commanding.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3

Posterity
The last pieces of the puzzle of Merlin's origins fall together for him on a visit to Saint Pudentiana the Fairy Bane.
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3

The Night Visitors
Inspired by the annual round of holiday stories on alt.*.creative in 1997, but didn't gel to appear on this index till 2002.
Part 1 of one

More potpourri
Isolated incidents of importance or just interest.
Part 1 of one

By Her Loose Laces
Ordinarily the normal course of the timestream keeps an Avalonian time-traveler from meeting more timebound acquaintences anachronistically. But normality goes wanting when Nimue and her new traveling companion, young Queen Isis of the planet Nile, land the CAVE on a new starcruiser on its first mission, commanded by a familiar young king ...
Eight segments

For to Carry Me Home
As if the temporal cold war wasn't enough, Nimue discovers another anomaly aboard the Excalibur. But this time she isn't the person best informed how dangerous the anomaly is...
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2

Once Is Not Enough
Alone in the CAVE, Nimue finds her thoughts wandering to happier times long gone ... and accidentally sets the CAVE wandering to those times.
Part 1 of one

The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds, part one
In the battle against the Avalonians' opposition in the temporal cold war, Morgan is obliged not only, as Lady of the Lake, to general the Avalonian sorcerors' efforts but, as one of the major players in Arthur's history, to impersonate the person she would have been in the alternate history ...
Part 1 of one

Something So Right
The romance in Once Is Not Enough comes together with the necessity of timeline repair in The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds, and Nimue gets back what she wanted back. But not quite the way she wanted it. Part 1 contains the word you thought you'd never see in my stories.
Part 1 - Part 2

Mixed Blessing
The night after the imaginary 2003 EXCALIBUR season premiere, halfway through English 150 Rhetoric & Composition, the professor said, "Write a conversation."
This is what came out.

The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds, part two
Portions of The Witch in the Wood Between the Worlds set after Mixed Blessings.
Part 1 of one

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