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How to Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, and Win (short story)

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Key crew

Writer:

Lawrence Conquest

Release details

Part of:

Iris: Abroad

Iris Wildthyme
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How to Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, and Win was the fifth story in the anthology Iris: Abroad. It was written by Lawrence Conquest.

Contents

1 Summary
2 Characters
3 References
4 Notes
5 Continuity
6 External links

Summary[]

to be added

Characters[]

Iris Wildthyme
Panda
Xi Yunshan
Sui Sui

References[]

Panda's voice is compared to that of Noël Coward's.
Sui Sui was raised in London Zoo.
There is a research facility in the Qinling Mountains in China.
Sichuan is the last hold out of the giant panda in the wild.
Panda mentions Christopher Biggins.
Panda has a palace in Peking.

Notes[]

This story was released as a free ebook sample by Obverse Books to promote the sales of Iris: Abroad.

Continuity[]

Iris mentions MIAOW. (AUDIO: The Land of Wonder)

External links[]

http://www.obversebooks.co.uk/catalogue/ia.html

Iris Wildthyme series

Big Finish Productions

Audio

Prose

Wildthyme on Top

Most Horrid • The Sleuth Slayers • Minions of the Moon • Beguine • Blame Iris • Came to Believe • Rough Magic • The Mancunian Candidate • Iris and Irregularity • The Evil Little Mother and the Tragic Old Bat

Novels

Enter Wildthyme • Wildthyme Beyond! • From Wildthyme with Love

Short stories

Resurrection Engines

Talented Witches

Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus	A Gamble with Wildthyme • Sovereign • The Unhappy Medium • Future Legend • Battleship Anathema • The Dreadful Flap • And Not a Drop to Drink • Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta • Why? Because We Like You • The Scarlet Shadow • Only Living Girls

The Panda Book of Horror	Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost • Framed • Just the Ticket • The Party in Room Four • Party Kill Accelerator! • Apocalypse Slough • The Delightful Bag • Iris Wildthyme's Rainy Day Adventure • The Colour Scheme • Shadow of the Times Before • The Fag Hag from Hell • The Niceness • Channel 666 • Brenda's B&B • The Panda Book of Horror • Untitled

Ms Wildthyme & Friends Investigate	The Found World • The Irredeemable Love • Elementary, My Dear Sheila • The Shape of Things

Iris: Abroad	Annabel Regina • Chicken Fried Banana Republic • The Midnight Washerwomen • The Little Bighorn Casino • How to Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, and Win • Panda on Ice • Couch Potatoes • Riviera Shakedown • Iris Wildthyme and the Colonic in Space • First Meetings • The Best Holiday Ever • The Story Eater • Hospitality

Wildthyme in Purple	The Big Crunch • Frank Reade, Jr.'s Electric Time Canoe • Dance of the Voodoo Valkyries • Iris in Dead Man's Gulch • Her and Allan • Running with Caesars • Amser Gwyllt • The Bronze Door • Flash Rogers Conquers the Universe! • The Web of Terror • The Many Lives of Zorro • Fantômville • The Devil Wears Panda

Lady Stardust	Modern Love • Hang onto Yourself • Slip Away • Low/Profile • Up the Hill Backwards • Cracked Actor

Iris: Fifteen	The Ninnies on Putney Common • Gimme Shelter • Time to Exist • Party Fears Two • God Engine Rhapsody • Project: Wildthyme • Our Tune • The Wildthyme Effect • Ouroboros • In Passing • Iris at the V&A • The Golden Hendecahedron • Samsāra • Iris and the Caliphate • Mix Her Own Adventure • Scream in Blue • Dog Days of Summer

Iris Wildthyme of Mars	Wandering Stars • Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Bad Weekend • Iris: Chess-Mistress of Mars • Death on the Euphrates • And a Dog to Walk • Talking with Spores • Doomed • The Last Martian • Lilac Mars • City of Dust • The Calamari-Men of Mare Cimmerium • Green Mars Blues

The Perennial Miss Wildthyme	Death of the Author • Right vs Left vs Wrong • Wildthyme and the Wolf • Dolores Smith and the Birthday Bear • The Girl Who Went up in Smoke • Onesies • The Opera of Samhain • A Grove Invisible • Michael Drake • The Midnight Empire • Self Possessed • Closure

A Clockwork Iris	Flasket Brinner and the Clockwork Heart • The Woman Who Sold the Moon • The Story Sorters • Being • Iris and the Dame • Petite Fours, Petite Mort • Panda and the Airship • Rattus Erectus • Tik, Tak. Snick, Snack • Timepeace • Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Wildthyme • Another Clockwork Iris

Wild Thymes on the 22	The Heart Pendulums • Rain and Regency • Iris Wildthyme & the Bush Offensive • Drowned in Moonlight • The Most Faithful Panda in the World • Hillbilly Heavens • The Haberdasher's Tale • The Exploding Somewhat Inevitable • The Brightest Stars in the Demimonde • Starstation to Starstation • The Magrs Conundrum! • Untitled No. 22

Obverse Sextet	The Mystic Menagerie of Iris Wildthyme

The New Adventures of Iris Wildthyme	Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror • Mother, Maiden, Crone

Others

Doctor Who Magazine

Bafflement and Devotion

Salt Publishing

Twelve Stories

In the Sixties

Arcbeatle Press

Down the Middle

Flickering Flame • The Aftermath

Independently published

Christmassy Tales

A Tingle of Happiness

The Verb

Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!

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