If the General Interview was still open....

ozrics · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 1:15 pm Post subject:

Absolutely, the Land is rich enough. For example, there's a whole book to be written on the ramen / ranyhyn relationship and I'd love a book on the ur-viles / waynhim wurd, weird. Vain's my hero and vitrim rocks
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iQuestor · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 1:16 pm Post subject:

I do too. but SRD wont do it. FanFic it is.
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peter · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 2:56 pm Post subject:

Exellent HC! I'm glad I'm not alone in feeling this way.
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Horrim Carabal · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject:

I think, in the future, someone will return to the Land. One of SRD's adult children, someone empowered by his estate, someone who buys the rights.

It's too rich of a world to just lay fallow forever.

Savor Dam · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:34 pm Post subject:

Two cautionary words: Brian Herbert.

That is all.
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Blasius · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:20 am Post subject:

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peter · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:30 am Post subject:

Bad follow up novels are written for the same reason bad sequels to films are made - cash in on the original by making a cheap 3rd [or whatever] sequel - it won't make as much, but it will be cheap to make. It's the same principle as mopping up the gravy on your plate with a piece of bread after a fine dinner.
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DrPaul · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:31 am Post subject:

DrPaul · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:39 am Post subject:

As far as we know SRD hasn't done a Tolkien and created an unfinished oeuvre comparable to the Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales and The Lost Tales and...

An important question, of course, is whether we want all the blank spaces on the canvas authoritatively filled in, either by the Master or by his heirs and successors, or whether we want these spaces to remain free for our imaginations to roam. Would we really be better off, for example, knowing whether or not there was a port city in the vicinity of Seareach in Berek's time rather than being able to have pleasant arguments about this possibility amongst ourselves?[/b]

peter · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:40 pm Post subject:

Fair comment.
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cvquesty · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:09 pm Post subject:

I'm a little unhappy that I cannot buy the book for Kindle. Why would you (or your publisher) choose to not release this at the same time as the print like you did for AATE?

starkllr · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:37 pm Post subject:

cvquesty, where do you live? In the US, it was out on Kindle the same day as the print release.

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SleeplessOne · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:19 am Post subject:

so many questions, I'll reel off 10 :

1. what was the story you hoped to tell ?

2. why the decision to have all 'real world' characters who entered the Land die in the prologue ?

3. how did time-travel help to tell the story ?

4. was it a conscious decision to make the Land feel so empty of inhabitants, and if so is it tied in with your seemingly deliberate decision to minimize the Lands once-inherent beauty ?

5. I enjoyed the character Esmer, can you explain why death was the only good answer for someone as conflicted as he ? It reminded me somewhat of Triock's simple explanation of Elena's madness, "she was flawed from birth."

6. why do the Insequent as a race opt to aid Linden and company via their proxy, the Ardent, but withhold from offering any further assistance in the final fight for the Land's fate ?

7. did you have a special affinity for the character of Stave, who seemed to get a lot of the juicy, philosophical monologues .. ?

8. What do you speculate as to the implications of Covenant 'absorbing' Foul ?

9. The culmination of the Ur-Vile/Waynhim weird struck me as pretty odd, how was this plot resolution decided upon, how do you feel about it, and beyond the metaphor of the idea, how in practice would the combined souls of once-devoured women and 'made' creatures work in the one corporeal vessel ??

10. what's next ?

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lurch · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 2:36 pm Post subject:

I would ask if he ever regretted not having an additional middle name that started with R.
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peter · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:07 pm Post subject:

I'd ask if it was fear of the critical response of TLD and being asked many, many difficult questions that prompted him to close the GI.
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