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There's an interview with Richard Morgan on io9.com. He talks about his books, politics and differences between Americans and Europeans.
I can understand his stand on movie rights. He is right - you sell it, you give it away. But he is also wrong, because it's still connected to you as your creation and even though you don't have any say in what it looks like you'll still be caught in the backlash when something goes wrong. I saw it happen with Wtcher (Hexer) movie/ tv series. Andrzej Sapkowski though the same but when the adaptation became complete mess he was blamed too. It was so bad the game people had to spent years begging him to let use his works. Luckily they did much better job.
He is also another person who liked Strange Days. I really liked that movie. It had the villain who made me sick and still he was evil in that malazan way were it comes from self-indulgence rather then just being evil. It had faulty heroes who just tried to get by but are forced to react when the bad becomes hard to ignore. I still hope it will some day become Blade Runner-ized.
I can understand Morgan's irritation at being compared to others but I think that's how reviewing and recommendations work.
He is just like x. If you like x then you'll like y. Or I liked it as much as x works and it's fantasy too.
Even if it's not true it is unavoidable. You get compared with the populars of the genre you write in. If your lucky. If not then you can get compared to the ones who are on the opposite end of spectrum. Better Martin and Erikson then Goodkind and Paolini. At least as far as general fandom respect goes.
The Erickson/ Erikson misspelling is both funny and irritating. They linked Steven Erikson's wiki page so you know for sure who it was meant to be. It's funny that a mistake that's so prevalent (I've seen it before several times) really makes a difference in this case. The one letter extra wouldn't be so important if not for the fact there is Steve Erickson writing speculative fiction.
I can understand his stand on movie rights. He is right - you sell it, you give it away. But he is also wrong, because it's still connected to you as your creation and even though you don't have any say in what it looks like you'll still be caught in the backlash when something goes wrong. I saw it happen with Wtcher (Hexer) movie/ tv series. Andrzej Sapkowski though the same but when the adaptation became complete mess he was blamed too. It was so bad the game people had to spent years begging him to let use his works. Luckily they did much better job.
He is also another person who liked Strange Days. I really liked that movie. It had the villain who made me sick and still he was evil in that malazan way were it comes from self-indulgence rather then just being evil. It had faulty heroes who just tried to get by but are forced to react when the bad becomes hard to ignore. I still hope it will some day become Blade Runner-ized.
I can understand Morgan's irritation at being compared to others but I think that's how reviewing and recommendations work.
He is just like x. If you like x then you'll like y. Or I liked it as much as x works and it's fantasy too.
Even if it's not true it is unavoidable. You get compared with the populars of the genre you write in. If your lucky. If not then you can get compared to the ones who are on the opposite end of spectrum. Better Martin and Erikson then Goodkind and Paolini. At least as far as general fandom respect goes.
The Erickson/ Erikson misspelling is both funny and irritating. They linked Steven Erikson's wiki page so you know for sure who it was meant to be. It's funny that a mistake that's so prevalent (I've seen it before several times) really makes a difference in this case. The one letter extra wouldn't be so important if not for the fact there is Steve Erickson writing speculative fiction.