| From: | Jak Koke <jkoke@****.edu> |
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| Subject: | intellectual property, immortal elves and horrors, oh my! |
| Date: | Sun, 10 Mar 1996 18:15:23 -0800 |
message disappeared into the void. I didn't end up on the list and it didn't
bounce back. Here's try number two...
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As another SR freelancer who is also subscribed to the list, I agree with
everything Steve Kenson wrote in his defense. I, too, will volunteer to
unsubscribe if it will put people at ease. I use the list primarily to
monitor feedback on the products which have already been released, like
Awakenings, VR2.0 and lately Calfree (since it contains some of my ideas).
It doesn't seem to be the consensus that list members feel that FASA writers
have "stolen" ideas from the list, however, and therefore I would like to
continue my participation here. I regret that I don't often post because of
time constraints, but I do glance at interesting threads. Both Steve and I
communicate with Mike Mulvihill at FASA on a semi-regular basis, and keep
him aware of the overall reaction of the list to the direction SR seems to
be taking.
I don't think that Steve's comment about novel lead times can be
overstressed. When BLACK MADONNA was being written, FASA had just decided
to reveal the connection between Earthdawn and Shadowrun. It has taken this
long to publish. I am currently writing a trilogy of SR novels the first of
which won't be published until July of '97. It is very difficult to keep
track of public sentiment towards plotlines which impact the SR universe and
are set that far ahead.
As a fiction writer, I believe the novels can do a lot to embellish and
advance the SR universe; it just takes more coordination than has been shown
previously in Shadowrun. Battletech has worked this way for years, and I
believe that Mike Mulvihill is doing a great job of weaving the plot threads
so far in the future. There is some exciting stuff coming up, including
SUPER TUESDAY and the election of 2057, plus events in my novel which is set
in 2058.
As Steve wrote, the immortals won't completely disappear after BLACK
MADONNA, but neither will official products continue to suggest that every
major figure in world history was an immortal or was influenced by one. :)
DEAD AIR (my novel) is about a professional combat biker in LA who comes
across some very important stolen data and how he has to figure out what it
is and get rid of it before he gets killed. Lots more to it of course, but
that's the one sentence synposis. The novel details combat biker, simsense
and professional sports, shadowrunning in LA and more.
Next comes PREYING FOR KEEPS by Mel Odom, (novelwise) then THE LUCIFER DECK
by Lisa Smedman, followed by BLACK RAIN (a non-Striper novel) by Nyx Smith.
I think the first book of my trilogy, tentatively titled STRANGER SOULS,
comes after Smith's novel. Anyway, lots of cool, non-immortals related
fiction. Hope you all enjoy it.
--Jak
My vote goes to Kenneth Brackhaven <just kidding>. Slimeball that one.
Guess I'll vote for the wyrm too.
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