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| 683.1 | you have made my day! | FRSBEE::STOLOS | | Thu Sep 01 1988 22:36 | 12 |
| YES! YES! OH MY GOD THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE MENTIONS A BOOK
WHILE I'M READING IT...I'M THRILLED!!!!
what i've read so far isn't bad, basically i've enjoyed the idea
of larry and jerry's CoDominium. and yes i enjoyed the kzin wars
also (those hotheaded little pussies are one of my favorite aliens).
but then again you are talking to someone who read communion and
considers "true stories" of ufo abduction "really high camp science
fiction". in fact i'm still spreading around the rumour that we
learned about surface mount technology from a ufo crash in the
new mexico desert in 1948, go to any surface mount tech conference
and you'll bump into the "men in black". ;')
pete_who's_just_a_bubble_left_of_plum.
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| 683.2 | | AKOV11::BOYAJIAN | Copyright � 1953 | Fri Sep 02 1988 06:33 | 16 |
| �This appears to be a new concept in science fiction future
histories. Some publisher picks a well known future history
and gets authors to write about it. I have seen this also
used for Fred Saberhagen's Beserker history and Larry Niven's
Kzin Wars.�
Well, I suppose it depends on how narrow you want to set
your parameters. Do you want to include or exclude fantasy?
Do you want to include or exclude universes specifically
created to be shared-world universes, rather than already
existing ones?
The grand-daddy of them all is still Lovecraft's Cthulhu
Mythos.
--- jerry
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| 683.3 | good deal | FRSBEE::STOLOS | | Sun Sep 04 1988 12:32 | 13 |
| i've finished 2 more of the war world stories and am finding this
concept in writing very exciting. each author will bring his/her
own style to the story and the themes. i really enjoyed poul
anderson "deserter" how he made the polish city come alive on
haven and its ambigous ending. plus its really great that the time
between the first and second empire is being filled in with these
stories. i would remember all the references made to the first
empire "in the mote in god's eye" and really wanted to find out more
of what went on. looking forward to when author's start filling
out frank herbert's universe that produced "dune". alot could be
written on the jihad against the machines and the history of
the planet ix. "there are many new machines being built on ix."
pete
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| 683.4 | not quite new | ERASER::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason | Tue Sep 06 1988 15:17 | 17 |
| Re .0 (Tony):
>This appears to be a new concept in science fiction future histories.
>Some publisher picks a well known future history and gets authors to
>write about it.
In a way, it's "new"; in another, it's not. Many years ago, there
was a book, _Petrified Planet_, where a planetwhere the life was
silocon-based, was developed by a biochemist, and then three separate
authors (I haven't looked at it for years, but I think Judith Merrill
and H. Beam Piper were two of the authors) wrote stories against
that background.
The various "uncanonical" _Star Trek_ and _Star Wars_ novels are
another variant of the theme.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 683.5 | Very good! | SNDCSL::SMITH | IEEE-696 | Wed Sep 07 1988 15:16 | 6 |
| I just finished War World, and while I've been generally disappointed
by shared-world anthologies (esp Thieves World), I really liked
it and am looking forward to more! It may (as do they all) suffer
from sequelitis, but I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.
Willie
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| 683.6 | Kentucky Fried SF | ESSB::DEARLY | Give up religion. Become a Diagnostic | Wed Jun 26 1991 12:57 | 4 |
| In the prologue to Man/Kzin Wars II Niven refers to this concept of a
multi-author series as a "Franchised Universe".
Dave Early 8*)
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| 683.7 | | FASDER::ASCOLARO | Tardis Del., When it has to be there Yestdy. | Wed Aug 14 1991 17:52 | 4 |
| Well, I have now seen war world II and war world III. If anything, I
think they get better.
Tony
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