The Tommyknockers

[Atlana]

Okay I just finished reading The Tommyknockers.
In the end how did the army move the Alien/human/Tommyknockers. Or what ever else you may call the humans that were "becoming" in Haven.
I just don't see how the army could have moved them when they could only breath the air that was polluted by the spacecraft.
Anyone have some ideas? Or maybe you know the real way it happened and I just missed something while reading.

Also. Does anyone else here think it was sad the way Gardener died? He was all alone in a spacecraft miles and miles away from everything he had know and loved. I don't know I guess it's a good thing though. Now he can be with the hopefully sane Bobbi, and not the Bobbi that was forcing him to OD on sleeping pills.

[wally wonder]

hi atlana. great story, hey? don't recall the exact logistics of the problem you observed, but seems like the dallas police have a way of doing things. that, or whatever they had to make the air they breathed was/is still functional by the time the dallas police got involved and they used that to make the transfer. wasn't it an old furnace that was making t-k air?

guess if you want a page number, look on 745, my usa/pb copy has p 745, loaded me up in a c-140 starlifter, controlled-environment cargo-bay, firestarter link there, same page last survivor, alice kimball, last survivor.

[Bob Ross]

It was always my understanding that the surviving infected Haven residents did eventually die when the Shop took them outside of the town limits. It's something that would have happened eventually anyway since the ship was no longer there. I don't think the authorities were all that interested in the infected surviving as much as they wanted to dissect them. I haven't read the book in about fifteen years however so maybe I'm remembering it wrong (although I'm currently about fifty pages into my re-read at the moment).

[michal]

The military - so said the book -took the device that the Haven people built that produced some of the same conditions needed to survive and so managed to "Keep them alive" for a bit longer. But they did eventually all die - one at a time, not being able to survive outside of their own atmosphere.

[fredo]

Who's to say Gard is dead? I like to think he turned the crew into peace loving beings and is cruising the galaxy stopping wars and bringing a better way of life to those they meet. With the old, unimproved Bobbi at his side.
I love happy endings.

[Reactor]

In the condition the book left him, it's highly doubtful that he is still cruising around the galaxy. The spaceship sucked his energy down to zero, thus he died. And when he died, there was nothing to fuel the ship, so it became stranded somewhere at outer space. A few thousand years later, someone might find it hovering at the middle of nowhere, but until than, the previous adventure is over.