Who would you most like to see write a Star Wars book?
Posted: 2002-09-29 10:28pm
No poll, just give some names.
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Re: Who would you most like to see write a Star Wars book?
Posted: 2002-09-29 10:45pm
Posted: 2002-09-29 10:48pm
Another Aaron Allston novel!!!!
With Wraith Squadron! Or at least about any squadron!
With Wraith Squadron! Or at least about any squadron!
Posted: 2002-09-29 10:51pm
Isaac Asimov, if he was still alive.
A crime novel based on Coruscant with a untrained-force-able detective during post DSI times?
Chuck Palaniuk (aka Fight Club).
He would make a sick SW novel.
A crime novel based on Coruscant with a untrained-force-able detective during post DSI times?
Chuck Palaniuk (aka Fight Club).
He would make a sick SW novel.
Posted: 2002-09-29 10:51pm
After Traitor, Matthew Stover can go ahead and just write the rest of the NJO by himself.
Posted: 2002-09-30 12:23am
Offhand I'd be intersted in seeing if Orson Scott Card could do anything interesting with the series but other than him I'd really like to see David Feintuch do a duology or trilogy. He mgiht be slightly repetitive in his own series but his characters are so plainfully THERE you just can't help but be swept along with them even when you KNOW some one is gonna die.
Posted: 2002-09-30 12:41am
Harry Turtledove
Posted: 2002-09-30 01:06am
Turtledove. Especially if it was an Infinities type story.
Hell, I wouldn't mind a Stephen King story- he liked AOTC, and who knows what kinmd of twisted shit he could do with an entire galaxy at his disposal. Personally, I'd like to see Randall Flagg in the SW univerrse.
Hell, I wouldn't mind a Stephen King story- he liked AOTC, and who knows what kinmd of twisted shit he could do with an entire galaxy at his disposal. Personally, I'd like to see Randall Flagg in the SW univerrse.
Posted: 2002-09-30 01:06am
Steven King?
Posted: 2002-09-30 06:48am
If Orson Prick Card touches SW, I will be forced to kill him and amputate whatever he touched. The man works very well in his own universes, but he is NOT getting SW.
Asimov, if he was alive.
Asimov, if he was alive.
Posted: 2002-09-30 08:57am
Wow, have you actually met the man? Sure sounds like it.Cyril wrote:If Orson Prick Card touches SW, I will be forced to kill him and amputate whatever he touched. The man works very well in his own universes, but he is NOT getting SW.
Asimov, if he was alive.
Card would never be asked to work in the SW universe. Mainly because he has vehemently spoken out against Lucas and the whole series. Like Cyril says, Orson is a PRICK.
Hm, I 'd like to see Peter David give it a chance. I think he could do wonders with it..
Posted: 2002-09-30 09:24am
I still like Card's books.Kelly Antilles wrote:Wow, have you actually met the man? Sure sounds like it.Cyril wrote:If Orson Prick Card touches SW, I will be forced to kill him and amputate whatever he touched. The man works very well in his own universes, but he is NOT getting SW.
Asimov, if he was alive.
Card would never be asked to work in the SW universe. Mainly because he has vehemently spoken out against Lucas and the whole series. Like Cyril says, Orson is a PRICK.
Hm, I 'd like to see Peter David give it a chance. I think he could do wonders with it..
A few other good authors, suitable to play in SW:
* Stephen Brust (kinda like a Super Stackpole - can do everything Stackpole does, but better, and without the crap coming along)
* Greg Egan (a bit too much science here maybe, but otherwise brilliant)
* David Eddings (for no other reason than that I want to see how that would turn out
)* Philip Pullman (ok, he'd rewrite the entire fucking cosmology, but still, it'd be worth it...)
* David Weber (yeah, that's right, I'm a copycat. So sue me. Honor rules!)
Posted: 2002-09-30 10:10am
There's nothing wrong with recognizing quality work when you see it.Eleas wrote: * David Weber (yeah, that's right, I'm a copycat. So sue me. Honor rules!)
Posted: 2002-09-30 10:38am
A partisan statement, to be sure. And an accurate one.Stormbringer wrote:There's nothing wrong with recognizing quality work when you see it.Eleas wrote: * David Weber (yeah, that's right, I'm a copycat. So sue me. Honor rules!)
Posted: 2002-09-30 10:41am
Indeed. It is the unadultered truth.Eleas wrote:A partisan statement, to be sure. And an accurate one.Stormbringer wrote:There's nothing wrong with recognizing quality work when you see it.Eleas wrote: * David Weber (yeah, that's right, I'm a copycat. So sue me. Honor rules!)
Re: Who would you most like to see write a Star Wars book?
Posted: 2002-09-30 12:19pm
STRAVO!!!!!!
Posted: 2002-09-30 03:19pm
Oh, yes, Brust. Definetly Brust.
Re: Who would you most like to see write a Star Wars book?
Posted: 2002-09-30 03:34pm
I'd give my left nut to do a SW novel, especially after seeing some of the crap that gets put out in the EU.Ted wrote:STRAVO!!!!!!
I'm interested to know just what Card has said about SW, I've read his Ender books and I've LOVED every single one...I'd just like to know what he has against GL.
Posted: 2002-09-30 07:26pm
A David Weber/Steve White collaboration in the style of In Death Ground. Which then gets made into a movie where we get to see tons of capital ship combat and planets getting BDZ'd. 
Re: Who would you most like to see write a Star Wars book?
Posted: 2002-09-30 07:51pm
Probably religious differences. He is a very devout Moromon and seems to be getting more and more so. I'd wager it's a difference about the moral messages.Stravo wrote: I'm interested to know just what Card has said about SW, I've read his Ender books and I've LOVED every single one...I'd just like to know what he has against GL.
Re: Who would you most like to see write a Star Wars book?
Posted: 2002-09-30 09:04pm
Um, George has made ten times as much money on his movies than Orson has ever thought of? Let me see if I can find his review of Episode 2...Stravo wrote:I'd give my left nut to do a SW novel, especially after seeing some of the crap that gets put out in the EU.Ted wrote:STRAVO!!!!!!
I'm interested to know just what Card has said about SW, I've read his Ender books and I've LOVED every single one...I'd just like to know what he has against GL.
Posted: 2002-09-30 09:09pm
Ah here it is, from *Orson's* own page (http://www.hatrack.com God, what a stupid ass url!)
See what I mean?Orson Scott Card wrote:
(Written May 20, 2002 for the Rhinocerous Times)
How bad is Attack of the Clones?
Well, I have friends whose little kids actually liked the movie, and my eight-year-old didn't hate it, so it's not a total loss.
But the special effects are surprisingly blurry and ineffective, especially after having just seen "Spiderman." Apparently shooting a movie in high-definition digital video only works if you also project it onto the screen as HD video.
I have to give the actors credit -- there were moments when they actually made me overlook the excruciating badness of the dialogue and enjoy their performances.
But nothing could overcome the mind-numbing boredom of watching meeting after meeting, in which people sit around and discuss trivial and obscure points that we never understand or care about.
Even when something "emotional" happens, it's almost an afterthought. Suddenly, quite late in the movie, Anakin has a dream about his mother and then takes off to save her, only to arrive too late, whereupon he ... embraces the dark side of the force.
Ludicrously enough, Natalie Portman's character, after Anakin tells her the atrocities he committed, marries him anyway without even a hint of soul-searching on her part.
Both the science and the magic have no meaningful rules. Sometimes the technology can detect minute intrusions; sometimes whole spacecraft can enter a planet's atmosphere undetected.
Sometimes Jedis can jump from tall buildings without harm and sense the presence of worms in another room, but other times a big hulking warrior can sneak right up behind them.
And even though it's cool watching Yoda in a swordfight at the end, it's just infuriating that Anakin and Obiwan are so injured that they can't move and Yoda has to go to silly lengths to protect them -- until the moment the fight ends, whereupon they jump right up.
I don't know of a science fiction writer so bad that he or she couldn't have done a better job on coming up with a plausible story than this one. Science fiction doesn't have to be bad. That's George Lucas's own achievement.
Filmmakers really ought to be prevented from sticking closely to stories they thought up before they turned ten.
Posted: 2002-09-30 09:11pm
Interesting enough, Ender's Game is just such a story.
Posted: 2002-09-30 09:20pm
Interesting enough, but you have to admit, he does raise some valid points about general inconsistencies within the story, particulalry how forced the Anakin Padme marraige and love seems, he slaughtered an entire village, women and children and she is this sentaor with PACIFISTIC ideals, so much so that she is willing to vote against the Grand Army of the Republic and face the disollution of that which she believes in rather than use force to hold it together. So WHY would she marry this guy WITHOUT some soul searching as Card notes. I'm not in total agreement with his views, but you have to admit that some of the things he mentions are valid critiques.
I guess you can answer some of them by stating that the medium of film simply does not allow the kind of exloration of character and consequences that books would allow.
I guess you can answer some of them by stating that the medium of film simply does not allow the kind of exloration of character and consequences that books would allow.
Posted: 2002-09-30 09:22pm
So, is he going to let Ender get butchered for his own movie? Probably.