Moderators: Omphalos, Freakzilla, ᴶᵛᵀᴬ
•Kevin: "If you look at Dune, it's about as complex and broad as you can imagine. When you study it, and when you've written so many books in that universe, as we have, some of it's bound to rub off." I think this might be the first time Kev has actually hinted that he has become a writer comparable to FH by writing in Dune. Brian cut him off pretty quickly, but that might just have been editing.
D Pope wrote:•Kevin: "If you look at Dune, it's about as complex and broad as you can imagine. When you study it, and when you've written so many books in that universe, as we have, some of it's bound to rub off." I think this might be the first time Kev has actually hinted that he has become a writer comparable to FH by writing in Dune. Brian cut him off pretty quickly, but that might just have been editing.
In his own warped way, do you think he's trying to appeal to us?
D Pope wrote:I've been kicking around Chigs evil mastermind theory and after listening to this interview, i'm beginning to come around. Brian no longer seems to be the helpless buffoon under the spell of a persuasive and energetic kevie, nope, Brian handles KJ with the talent of a master.
Hunchback Jack wrote:I think, though, that Kevin dominates when it actually comes to writing the thing. KJA churns out five chapters to each of Brian's one, and has time left over to rewrite Brian's chapters.
TheDukester wrote:Clearly, Keith is writing at at least a 5-to-1 pace when compared to Bobo. I'd say it's extremely likely that:
1. Keith eventually "volunteers" to do a lot of Bobo's chapters;
2. When they are finally finished with their first go-around, Keith completely dominates the "editing" process. To the point where a new McDune is methodically turned into just another Anderhack Star Wars script ... perhaps without Bobo even realizing what's going on. Or maybe just accepting it. Or convincing himself that he's somehow contributed.
Hunchback Jack wrote:Read a chapter of McDune - *any* chapter - and a chapter of KJA's own work, and they are the same writer's voice.
Responding to a question shouted from somewhere in the check-out queues as to whether Dickens collaborator Wilkie Collins would appear in his new horror novel, Anderson confirmed that Collins would indeed play a major role and that he would be basing much of his interpretation of the relationship between the two writers on his own partnership with Dune heir Brian Herbert, who was in fact a major inspiration in his choice of title...
Speaking of his art, the stories collected in Dogged Persistence are (with one exception) dull and bland -- utterly forgettable, save for the bitter aftertaste from having read an author who uses his fiction to "teach" his readers trite lessons. Invariably (again, with one exception), by story's end, the protagonist has learned a "valuable lesson," on the order of "hard work is good for you" or "hard work is good for you, but remember to be nice to your girlfriend." Even H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens -- fictionalized, respectively, in "Scientific Romance" and "The Ghost of Christmas Always" -- are shown to have been inspired to greatness by having learned from Anderson's pat little morals. Again, one is tempted to speculate on what drives this "driven" author to reduce renowned writers to such triteness.
) 
merkin muffley wrote::shock:
Alpha Carinae wrote:Didn't you know he's a time-travelling literary genius who regularly goes to the 19th century to inspire ordinary people to become great authors like him so that he can come back to the present and be inspired by his own genius?
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
