AlvinFox Wrote:As I read some of this I can't help but think of anyone doing a prequel about anything. George Lucas didn't have to do the Star Wars prequels but... The thing that I've noticed is that the people who really enjoy the new trilogy were the ones who've never seen the original trilogy before.Will-do. Promise.
I don't know where I'm going with this anymore. I'm tired. Make of it what you will.
Wapitikev Wrote:Will-do. Promise.
Heh.
-Wapitikev
AlvinFox Wrote:As I read some of this I can't help but think of anyone doing a prequel about anything. George Lucas didn't have to do the Star Wars prequels but... The thing that I've noticed is that the people who really enjoy the new trilogy were the ones who've never seen the original trilogy before.
I don't know where I'm going with this anymore. I'm tired. Make of it what you will.
Bacardi Jim Wrote:Dr. Wilson:
I'm a fan. I'm a huge fan. I discovered you back in 1979 when I read The Keep on a Greyhound Bus on my way to a college interview, and I never let go. I've read two of your medical thrillers (meh), the entire LaNague cycle and, most importantly, both the Adversary Cycle and the Repairman Jack series.
And, after reading Black Wind and By the Sword back to back over the last week..... WTF are you doing?????????
You already wrote what is probably the best horror/adventure/sci-fi combo series there has ever been. The Adversary Cycle is a true work of art, spanning 50+ years and at least four different literary genres to tell an amazing story... a story that is neatly wrapped up and actually contained within the six books.
As much as I love Jack, you've lost all focus.
And I DO love Jack. The Tomb rests solidly amongst my Top Ten books of all time, and I do my best to sing your praises and win converts on other book/Kindle forums.
But... WTF????
By my last count, you now have at least seven different players involved in the Nightworld-Endgame. There's this unborn baby--that means everything... even though we know it doesn't. (Cuz we've all read Nightworld and we know it comes down to a showdown between Glaeken and another Rasalom-rebirth/empowerment.) Septimus. Kickers. Kaze. Dormentalists. Kakureta Kao. The Katana that means nothing because we already know the source-metal for the Sword... The Lady... you have, over the last few years, made them all important in the final scenario... when you already had a perfectly crafted final scenario!
I admire you greatly as an author. But do you truly believe that you can somehow wrap all this together and write a better version of Nightworld when the time comes with all these disparate, random (though fascinating) threads out there?
I just don't get it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
thelionwaits Wrote:I haven't been keeping up with the books (shame, SHAME on me) so I'm a little confused as to what is going on. I've been through this whole thread and things appear to be a bit amorphous to me.The Dreck comment wasn't aimed at you, specifically TLW. It's just that most other novels let me down compared to FPWs...that doesn't mean that I don't buy them or read them, just that I do not enjoy them as much.
What is the esteemed Mr. Wilson doing, exactly? Is he expanding the whole series to include another thread being tied in from another line of thinking? Is it a reworking? Is he just throwing everyone for a loop and coming in from left field? I'm very curious to know.
As for someone else in this thread speaking about other fiction books being "dreck?" Those of us not as well-known as FPW are just doing what we can to tell our own stories.