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Where does the inspiration come from?
Sully:
You could definitely make a story out of that.
Neurovore, I'm going to take a guess that you're, at the very least, occasionally exasperated by David Weber. ;D
--- Quote from: Marie on August 09, 2013, 12:42:38 AM ---Yeah, good idea for plots. But I never liked his work. Not a single space ship, actively employed wizard or other believable supernatural or other worldly character in sight! ::)
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Midsummer Night's Dream?
Ulfgeir:
--- Quote from: Marie on August 09, 2013, 12:42:38 AM ---Yeah, good idea for plots. But I never liked his work. Not a single space ship, actively employed wizard or other believable supernatural or other worldly character in sight! ::)
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Well you have a wizard and a spirit in The Tempest.
In Macbeth you have 3 witches
In Hamlet, there's a ghost
And finally in Midsummer Night's Dream there is a ton of the Fair folk..
/Ulfgeir
CenturionsofRome:
I suggest playing around with two distinct and separate concepts, like mutants and aliens, spaceships and romans, familiars and steampunk, pokemon and the lost roman legion (*cough* Alera *cough*), and see how they could potentially fit together in different ways.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Sully on August 09, 2013, 11:28:10 PM ---Neurovore, I'm going to take a guess that you're, at the very least, occasionally exasperated by David Weber. ;D
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I regard him as the proof that there is no setting, no universe, and no genre that a sufficiently determined author can't fold, spindle, and mutilate enough to force it to have Napoleonic-type sea battles or their exact equvalent in.
Why anyone who really wants to write Napoleonic sea battles would not just straightforwardly write Napoleonic naval novels is completely beyond me (well, except for the fact that the standard for comparison for those is Patrick O'Brian, and that would be terrifying because Patrick O'Brian was a genius.)
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on August 12, 2013, 02:36:02 AM ---I regard him as the proof that there is no setting, no universe, and no genre that a sufficiently determined author can't fold, spindle, and mutilate enough to force it to have Napoleonic-type sea battles or their exact equvalent in.
Why anyone who really wants to write Napoleonic sea battles would not just straightforwardly write Napoleonic naval novels is completely beyond me (well, except for the fact that the standard for comparison for those is Patrick O'Brian, and that would be terrifying because Patrick O'Brian was a genius.)
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Perhaps its the desire to both continue advancing and at the same time return to some of the best or at least more exciting 'perceived' times of yester-years gone past?
The Deposed King
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