tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966859.post7868961661860629535..comments2024-03-26T13:51:25.577-05:00Comments on <a href="http://jvanstry.blogspot.com">The Zen of Lion Taming</a>: Dead AuthorsJ Van Stryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18214235153399109479noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966859.post-28851317168602236202019-02-19T13:52:27.048-06:002019-02-19T13:52:27.048-06:00Your proposed ending is soooo Moorcock.Your proposed ending is soooo Moorcock.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10980985527997333383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966859.post-6796078057821018182019-02-19T13:51:31.879-06:002019-02-19T13:51:31.879-06:00Witch's of Karres is also my most memorable Sc...Witch's of Karres is also my most memorable Sci-fi/ Fantasy fiction story. I read a short story version in an anthology a friend loaned me in 9th grade, and it launched my down the path of being a sci-fi fan. I too read the squeal, and it just did not feel at all like a true extension of the original authors writing. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10980985527997333383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966859.post-217013194450821772019-01-28T19:06:39.922-06:002019-01-28T19:06:39.922-06:00Brian Herbert... 'nuff said.Brian Herbert... 'nuff said.Al-Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04077084238219962743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966859.post-31200684293198367662019-01-27T16:19:04.062-06:002019-01-27T16:19:04.062-06:00Variable Star? It's not Heinlein, it's not...Variable Star? It's not Heinlein, it's not Spider Robinson. There again Heinlein abandoned that manuscript 30 years before he died, probably for a reason. Robinson did not do his best work because he was trying to write "Heinlein". Disappointing.<br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11345150147057482281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966859.post-79433471909085921852019-01-24T13:40:46.756-06:002019-01-24T13:40:46.756-06:00I have had similar experiences 1) "Casca: The...I have had similar experiences 1) "Casca: The Eternal Mercenary" writing by Barry Sadler, he wrote 23 books in the series before he mysteriously died in Guatemala while doing research on #24 for those who don't know who Barry Sadler is he also wrote and sang "The Ballad of The Green Beret" anyway his family and/or publisher got Tony Roberts to continue the series a few years ago and sadly it sucked the whole flavor of the books where wrong <br />Glen Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17513180072763069624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966859.post-64548245833644273242019-01-20T12:15:16.375-06:002019-01-20T12:15:16.375-06:00Hear hear.
There is a collection of stories out t...Hear hear. <br />There is a collection of stories out there where Moorcock licenses it out for people to write Elric short stories, called Elric: Tales Of The White Wolf. They are all abysmal, except for two.<br /><br />In the best, which is written by Gary Gygax of all people, the main character is Moonglum, on a solo mission. Because we know so little of Moonglum, Gygax can take that and run with it.<br /><br />In the second best, the main character is the author's character, a down on his luck knight with no lands, selling off bits of his armor, and the final good thing in his life is his loyal big black warhorse who's his ticket to maybe getting a paid knight gig and being employed again. Very sympathetically drawn.<br /><br />Then Elric blows into town, and says almost nothing, except that he's looking for a mysterious red blade - and our knight has an inkling of where it might be. So they team up to find it.<br /><br />And as the story goes on, you as the reader have a creeping dread. You know that if this is an Elric story, the final scene goes like this: they reach the red blade and whoever/whatever guards it. Elric rears his blade back, and it twists in his hand to kill the hero, sucking out his soul while he writes in agony. The denoument will be Elric mounting the big black horse and riding off to his next adventure, knowing almost nothing of the person he's destroyed - but we know.<br /><br />It doesn't end that way but it should have been.<br /><br />The other authors all make the error of trying to have Elric talk. But only Moorcock can write Elric's dialogue, and it comes out like broken glass if he speaks.Ingot9455https://www.blogger.com/profile/05402794569866621725noreply@blogger.com