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Heretic:
Good books - I recommend 'em.    Dunno if I should spoiler-tag this, but just in case:

(click to show/hide)In his second Quincy Morris book, Evil Ways, turns out Quincy has a friend in Chicago who is a techno-phobic Wizard named Harry and who passes along some information.  Harry never actually appears in person, but one scene does take place in a pub called McAnally's, and features a bartender named Mac.

DragonFire:

--- Quote from: Heretic on September 07, 2009, 12:23:20 AM ---Good books - I recommend 'em.    Dunno if I should spoiler-tag this, but just in case:

(click to show/hide)In his second Quincy Morris book, Evil Ways, turns out Quincy has a friend in Chicago who is a techno-phobic Wizard named Harry and who passes along some information.  Harry never actually appears in person, but one scene does take place in a pub called McAnally's, and features a bartender named Mac.
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See, to me, that treads dangerously close to stealing Jim's IP.

belial.1980:
Hmmm. Well I know that H.P. Lovecraft and other writers worked in a "shared universe." I imagine that Gustainis did that as a purposeful homage; a sign of respect and admiration of Jim and his work. But unless a writer has professional or personal ties to another writer I'd steer far clear of that just because of copyright issues.

DragonFire:

--- Quote from: belial.1980 on September 07, 2009, 12:55:45 AM ---Hmmm. Well I know that H.P. Lovecraft and other writers worked in a "shared universe." I imagine that Gustainis did that as a purposeful homage; a sign of respect and admiration of Jim and his work. But unless a writer has professional or personal ties to another writer I'd steer far clear of that just because of copyright issues.



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Yeah..but I'm fairly sure Jim is NOT in a shared universe...and while I can see he maybe did it as an include to Jim...it's stil using stuff Jim came up with without (I assume) Jim's ok.

But...I think I'm walking over the line into speaking for Jim, so I'll shut up now!! :)

Sebastian:
http://www.sfbok.se/asp/artikel.asp?VolumeID=68142
I've only read Gustainis first novel, but as you can (almost) see from the picture Jim has read the story. I don't remember exactly but I think he also thanks Jim for input to a fledgeling writer in the foreword or afterword with the implication they are friendly acquaintances(sp) at least.

Since my personal Epic Fantasy a) is set in an imaginary world and b) stalled after 2 pages, a guest-appearance would be... awkward. No thanks.

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