About Neil and Terry vs. Crowley and Aziraphale :)
Q: People often wonder if Aziraphale and Crowley are based on you, Neil, and Terry. Neil, is there any truth to that? And, Rob, if so, who's Aziraphale and who's Crowley?
Rob: There is no doubt in my mind: Neil Gaiman is Crowley, look at the glint in his eye.
Neil: I think it's perfectly fair to say that in the creation of Crowley, Terry took the things that I did, that he thought were hilarious, like wearing sunglasses indoors when I didn't need to - I was younger then, and he thought they were just hilarious, so he put a lot of me into Crowley, but then we both put a lot of ourselves into both of them. You know, there's... really what was most important for Terry was just that people would think he was the good one. So if any bricks came through any windows, they were gonna to come through mine. Which is why in all photos, I am the one in black. Terry, who never wore white, would always go and borrow white clothes from people to be [in white] in all the photos.
Rob [wearing a white jacket]: This wasn't worn... there's no accident that I'm wearing this today, Neil.
In 1930, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 10) and his companion Martha arrived in New York City, America where they discovered the Cult of Skaro was attempting to make a Dalek/human hybrid. ("Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks", Doctor Who vlm 3, TV)
In 1951 Oxford University Press published American marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson‘s critically-acclaimed book, The Sea Around Us. It became one of the most successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over a million copies, was translated into 28 languages, inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary, and won both the 1952 National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal.
In 1958, Simon and Schuster published this special edition for young readers, adapted by Russian Empire-born American writer Anne Terry White, with illustrations by Rene Martin and maps by Emil Lowenstein. It also includes an additional chapter by Jeffrey Levinton, a leading expert in marine ecology, who incorporates the most recent thinking on continental drift, coral reefs, the spread of the ocean floor, the deterioration of the oceans, mass extinction of sea life, and many other topics. In addition, noted nature writer Ann Zwinger contributed a brief foreword. The last photographic image shown here is by American science photographer Fritz Goro.
View our 2021 Earth Day post on Rachel Carson’s most influential book, Silent Spring.