Do tell what this OSC rant is. At first I thought it was the O Society Something, but is it Orson Scott Card? Did he write another controversial column? Could I be any more further out of the loop?
make me want to grab Ender's Game and hug it and say, "Don't touch my book!" Which is of course a little silly
Actually, I understand that perfectly -- you've read the book, so it's sort of almost your intellectual property, too, especially since it's v intimate -- you've let it into your mind, so in a way, it's part of you. Especially wrt books we love.
it still makes me growly when he tries to revise it via the Bean series.
I think -- personally -- one dread symptom of Author Burnout is when they start writing long, long, elaborate series books (although obviously there are some authors who are perfectly happy doing that) which are then stitched together with other series books to form a kind of Uber-Series which, when you look at it all from a distance, doesn't really make sense. SF writers in general seem particularly vulnerable to this -- I d'know how much it has to do with marketing deals for series -- and I noticed it first when Isaac Asimov began painfully stitching his Robots and Foundation universes together. I wanted to say don't do that, you of all people should know....
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Fri, Sep. 24th, 2004 01:04 am (UTC)make me want to grab Ender's Game and hug it and say, "Don't touch my book!" Which is of course a little silly
Actually, I understand that perfectly -- you've read the book, so it's sort of almost your intellectual property, too, especially since it's v intimate -- you've let it into your mind, so in a way, it's part of you. Especially wrt books we love.
it still makes me growly when he tries to revise it via the Bean series.
I think -- personally -- one dread symptom of Author Burnout is when they start writing long, long, elaborate series books (although obviously there are some authors who are perfectly happy doing that) which are then stitched together with other series books to form a kind of Uber-Series which, when you look at it all from a distance, doesn't really make sense. SF writers in general seem particularly vulnerable to this -- I d'know how much it has to do with marketing deals for series -- and I noticed it first when Isaac Asimov began painfully stitching his Robots and Foundation universes together. I wanted to say don't do that, you of all people should know....