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10/25/09
The spinning of authors' corpses in their graves is what keeps the magnetic poles of the Earth from suddenly reversing. Without posthumous "collaborations," we'd all have to buy new windshield compasses to hang our fuzzy dice from. #books
10/24/09
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10/24/09
It's 23 years now since you published "Architect", SteveBoy - and it was far better than "Ariel," which you are publishing a sequel to.
I know, I know, you have bad memories about the Architect sequels - I've read your usenet posting, "The Archetype of Slop," dozens of times. And I'm sure you were right when you looked back over what you'd written, and found it was wordy and gassy, and you tossed it in the bin.
But you know, if you could ever finish up what you started in "Archetype", with the same quality, you'd be up there with Phil Dick and Ursula LeGuin as one of the greats who transcend the genre, and people will be reading it a hundred years from now. #books
10/24/09
CAN I HAZ MOAR RACCOONZ? #books
10/24/09
Just a stunningly 'bad move', in my opinion, and I wouldn't be surprised if he never finishes the series at this rate. #books
10/26/09
10/24/09
Great books, but we'd love to see some closure, somewhere... #books
10/24/09
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10/24/09
He may never have finished the actual writing; in that case, it wouldn't be like he was withholding the material, just that he wasn't going to produce it for free. Which he was totally honest about from the outset, so I don't think that's bitchy. (Wikipedia does say he's said he'll finish it someday.) #books
10/24/09
10/26/09
Likewise, the method and his attitude does seem stuck somewhere between the contribution model and the pay-per-play one. #books
10/26/09
10/24/09
JOEL ROSENBERG, PLEASE WRITE THE DAMN BOOK. Anyone else ever read the first two? #books
10/24/09
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10/24/09
I hope that his ghostwriter does them (now the last book is split in 3 parts) justice. #books
10/24/09
10/24/09
Turns out I was wrong -- the end of the story never came.
I much prefer self-contained fantasy novels like Elantris or The Iron Dragon's Daughter (which eventually DID get a sequel after fifteen or so years, but that I can deal with.)
10/24/09
But hey, since zombies are the new hot thing, perhaps a Robert Jordan zombie could be created. Imagine the signing tour. #books
10/24/09
10/24/09
I did the same thing -- nowhere in my copy of _Eye of the World_ did it say it was the first book in a series. So I was happily reading along thinking it was a stand-alone novel, and I literally got about 20 pages from the end and thought "I don't think he can wrap this all up that fast."
Sadly, all too true. #books
10/26/09
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