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Revision as of 04:06, 2 February 2023
All Mimsy Were the Borogroves was the first story in the Bernice Summerfield anthology Nobody's Children. It was written by Kate Orman.
Summary
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Characters
- Lwpha
- Bernice Summerfield
- Jason Kane
- Isaac Summerfield
- Peter Summerfield
- Jekhet
- Jarith Kothar
- Lady-Captain-Savant Cheset
- Spong
References
- Lwpha initially disguised themself as a Kapteynian madder-lily ornamental plant in Bernice Summerfield's hotel room.
- The Mim have such a thing as a sinking theatre.
- Lwpha hails from the Mim colony world Proxima Longissima. The Mim name for it translates as "Holiday Home". Another Mim colony was on Teegarden's star.
- Bernice is holidaying on the planet Phaaag Zenbrou which is home to the native Zenbrouli.
- Bernice noted that Lwpha was whistling I Am the Walrus, and later sang I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas.
- President Fiona was in charge of the Earth embassy.
- A Lacaillian prospecting vessel passed through Proxima Longissima's Oort cloud.
- One of the Draconian bases was on Ushumgallu.
- Bernice thought that the Mim got their name from the word "mimic", however, Lwpha informed her that they actually got their name from the ancient human word "coy".
- Xebec were native marine life on Proxima Longissima.
- Bernice and Lwpha took on the identities of Frymer and Kherue respectively.
- City Fourteen was a location on Proxima Longissima.
- The Joyce-Gate theory suggested that the Mim were not sentient and rather sock puppets to entities from another dimension.
Notes
- The story's title is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky, albeit misspelling "Borogove" as "Borogrove".
Continuity
- Every living thing on the Mimsphere was destroyed. (AUDIO: Freedom of Information)
- Bernice refers to her and Jason's hypothetical future child as "Keith" or "Keithette". (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)
