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Date Posted: 12:37:00 03/25/04 Thu
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: Re: Heroic Fantasy
In reply to: Thormagni 's message, "Re: Heroic Fantasy" on 02:40:09 03/25/04 Thu

>Once the mega-corporation gets its hooks into a
>creative idea, it kind of puts us in a limbo as
>readers of many popular fictional characters. We know
>that Superman or Spider-man are never really going to
>croak and that there will be an infinite number of
>Star Wars books, filling every nook and cranny of a
>character's life. Because, were the story to END,
>there wouldn't be a new product to sell. And these are
>marketed as must-have products.

That is an interesting idea. Robert E. Howard wrote long serieses (sp) of characters, as did Burroughs and others - yet he managed to maintain the atmosphere - once corporations got a hold of Conan and gave him to other authors, the first thing to go was the doomed atmosphere I mentioned in the start of this thread.

>
>I wonder what is going to happen to Harry after
>Rowling writes her last book. Sure, SHE is done, but I
>wonder if Scholastic and Time-Warner are going to let
>the series die. Or will we see a series of poor
>quality "Young Harry" novels set around his first
>years at Hogwarts and a "Teen Harry" series and an
>infinite succession of spin-off products.

Oh, I hope not! But that may well happen.
>
>I love to read Orson Scott Card's novels. And Ender's
>Game was practically the perfect sci-fi novel.

I have to agree with you there. Wonderful, wonderful book.

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