Was Glaeken Jesus?

A lot of series never seem to end, they go on, sometimes even after the author is dead.
But RJ has been set up as a finite thing ... which means that there is a beginning and an end. (Okay, let's exclude YoungJack and the coming HowJackGotToBeRepairmanJack for now)

Wouldn't it be awesome to have the ENTIRE series, RJ+AC, in one Uber-Book?

In leather ... maybe signed ... to put on a shrine of sorts ...

What do you think?

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32023

I almost did a little dance, then I read the article.

Of all the FPW short stories, novellas, which do you think could be expanded to a great feature script?

I always thought Soft had the possibility of becoming something special. Fringe evidently thought the same thing.

Is this the song you were looking for?

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...now they're remaking classic novels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14900340

Weirdly, I was thinking about this very subject on my way in to work this morning, why doesn't anyone re-write classic novels in a contemporary setting? You could say Bridget Jones was a contemporary Pride and Prejudice, but it didn't bill itself as a 'remake'.

Old novels have been riffed on many times over, re-using/re-interpretting characters (see Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein etc...) , or lately novels are re-written with an added element, ie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

But has this 'remake' idea been so blatant before?

Any other modern 're-tellings' that you can think of in the written form?

Any classic novels you'd like to see re-written in a modern setting?

Or does this idea make your skin crawl?

[B]Yikes! Win every freakin' Repairman Jack novel plus 3 from the Adversary Cycle!!! If you already have 'em, give 'em to a friend.[/B]

http://us.macmillan.com/tor/promo/repair...WT.mc_id=0

... sounds like an Ellen Datlow anthology, or maybe an Arkham collection, but it's not. It's something that happens in the night when you're three-quarters finished with the first book of a trilogy and your thoughts stumble across A Great Idea... a Great What-If about the work in progress. And that tips out a cascade of other ideas that you soon realize will tie the books of the trilogy into a deliriously cohesive whole, so much better than what you already had planned.

Dreadful because you can't refuse, even though you know this will mean a major rewrite, adding new characters and scenes and subplots, pushing passages you've already written into books two and three, or maybe into the trash folder. No, you can't refuse because now that you've seen this, what you had planned before looks like crap.

Just letting you know, because this means you won't be hearing much from me for the next couple of months.

I recently went on vacation and bought a few books to take with me and read at the airport/beach/pool as required.

I picked up three from Preston and Child, Penderghast novels. Wheel of Darkness was an odd book. The characters came across as a modern Holmes and Watson, and the writing was methodical but fellt a little by the numbers. The plotting was exciting, but blatantly ridiculous. I struggled to get through it at first, it just didn't connect, but when the story pieces fell into place then the last third was quite gripping (but still preposterous).

Dance of Death was next, Penderghast again, and I found the plotting more intriguing, and more realistic, but still with a heightened sense of weird, which as most of us as fans of Paul should relate to. But again, I found myself putting it down and not being bothered about picking it up again. The writing was methodical, nothing wrong with it, but a bit by the numbers. I haven't finished it, and haven't started the third.

One other I picked up, but have only now got to, was Neil Gaimen's American Gods. The contrast couldn't be more obvious. I immediately found the character interesting, immediately wanted to read the next page, immediately wanted to know what was going to happen to our hero. And then kick in the gut twists started happening before 25 pages had gone by. I'm hooked.

So, long story short, clearly the writing of Gaimen connects with me in a way Preston and Child doesn't. That is not to take anything away from Preston and Child, they've clearly created characters people love (I've heard Penderghast mentioned on this board several times over), and their story telling is exciting enough to spawn plenty of books.

Do some writers have a way with words that can't be taught, that connect with the audience? And other writers create a world of wonder and it is the creation/plotting, not the words, that some people connect to?

How do you connect?

How sad. I thought he was great at Spartacus and was hoping he'd get better.

From IMDB:

Andy Whitfield, the star of the cable TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died in Australia after a battle with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma; he was only 39. Rest in peace.

I've been a huge fan of F Paul Wilson for some time and while watching Hellsing through a second time I found a neat little Easter egg in episode nine about nine minutes in. I was watching the show and they started talking about a book which takes place around WW2. It sounded a lot like The Keep. At this point I texted my friends to let them know what i thought was a really neat reference. A couple of minutes later they introduce a new character named "Paul Wilson". I was super stoked to find a reference to my favorite author in one of my favorite anime's