Coventry (i/ˈkɒvəntri/) is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although Stoke-on-Trent, Leicester and Nottingham have larger urban areas. The population of Coventry had risen to 315,800 as of 2010, according to the Office of National Statistics.
Historically within Warwickshire, Coventry is situated 95 miles (153 km) northwest of central London and 19 miles (31 km) east-southeast of Birmingham, and is further from the coast than any other city in Britain. Although harbouring a population of almost a third of a million inhabitants, Coventry is not amongst the English Core Cities Group due to its proximity to Birmingham.
Coventry was the world's first twin city when it formed a twinning relationship with the Russian city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) during World War II. The relationship developed through ordinary people in Coventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The city is now also twinned with Dresden, Lidice and 23 other cities around the world.
Plot
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
Keywords: aerial-combat, air-crash-investigation, airplane, airplane-accident, altering-history, alternate-history, based-on-short-story, cigarette-smoking, crash, decade-hopping
We've been expecting you.
The people aboard flight 35 are about to land 1,000 years from where they planned to.
Beyond the boundaries of time... they are waiting for you!
[Louise is driving like a maniac; Bill is marveling that she has not killed them both in a wreck]::Bill Smith: How long have you had this thing?::Louise: A few months.::Bill Smith: You must be the luckiest woman in the world.
Louise: You're the best thing in a thousand years, Bill.
Coventry: You're talking about changing the past, and I know damn well we can't change the past! It catches up to us, and changes us!::Louise: Well, we haven't changed much. We're all still dying, this place still stinks, and you are still as ugly as ever!
Louise: Your mother was a cash register!::Sherman: And she turned a tidy profit.
[last lines]::Sherman the Robot: It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning.
Bill Smith: [Louise and Bill have gotten into Louise's sports car; Louise rockets out of the parking space] Tower clear you for that take-off?
Bill Smith: What happens when the timequake occurs?::Sherman: Like a nuclear bomb!
Louise: Sherman, come with us!::Sherman: There is no place for me where you are going. Go now.::[Solemly stays behind to close up the time portal and is vaporized in the timequake]
Louise: Watch that first step... it's a killer!
Dr. Arnold Mayer: [last words] I knew I was right.
Plot
Globe-trotter Barry Wilding ('Leslie Fenton' (qv)) intercedes when a man annoys Julie Kenmore ('Muriel Evans' (qv)) on a ship crossing the English Channel, but she refuses to tell him her name or address. Barry determines to find her in London, but he is summoned to a lawyer's office and informed that he has inherited "The Hawk's Nest", a large estate outside London. He has to sign a declaration that he will never sell the property. He arrives there and is roughly put off his own property be trespassers who have taken up residence. Despite offers to buy the estate and warnings to get out of England, Barry refuses to do either. Julie appears and tells Barry she is living at "The Hawk's Nest" and he must allow her and her father, Dr. Kenmore ('Morgan Wallace' (qv)), to continue to live there for at least six months, and he can not visit her there. But Barry continues to try to solve the mystery that surrounds his inheritance even after being attacked by three American gangsters. Barry tries to enlist the aid of Scotland Yard, but, for some unfathomable reason, they refuse to help him. Mystery piles on mystery before the amazing and unusual conclusion.
Keywords: 1930s, adventurer, american, b-movie, barrister, based-on-novel, based-on-play, cellar, court, crook
A guest at the "The House of Secrets"...an adventurer finds plenty of excitement when Death plays host.
Mysteries and thrills from cellar to garret...from start to finish it's the fastest, most furious, most gripping chiller you've ever seen! (original poster)
Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary: I think, sir, you have said entirely too much.::Tom Starr: You're right. From now on I intend doing something.
Julie Kenmore: You don't understand!
Dan Wharton: That dick can see with his ears and with the back of his head.
Barry Wilding: Listen, tough guy, it just happens I own this place!
a switchblade flashes on a coventry night
a kid lies there, he didn't want to fight
I didn't do it as he throws up his hands
but everyone knows where the blame is to land
we're always on the wrong side of whatever side there is
we're always on the wrong side of whatever side there is
the lights go down in coventry
meanwhile on the east side of town
we didn't know what was going down
the cops pulled us to the side of the road
Hanayo lives in Berlin cos she says the rent is cheap
Couldn't afford that lifestyle, Tokyo´s too fast and steep
Juergen lives in Munich, that cozy comfy town
Got a nice BM that he drives all over town
Mimi lives in Hamburg, that fishy harbour breeze
She says it's the best place in the world
And then she starts to sneeze
dean lives in London, does the music business thing
He likes to take girls to the park
And do that sweet, sweet thing
People and places, people in different towns
erkki lives in tampere, now where the hell is that?
works the web like no other, gotta put him on the map
Weasel she's in New York, she got it all set up
she drinks her frappuccio from a glass and not a cup
Jeremy moved to Rome, Italiano style
Gave up all that fashion jazz and says that with a smile
Russell lives in Cov, that a really brutal place
It's in the middle of England, right into your face
People and places and places and people