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If Jim handed off the series to someone else...
groinkick:
This I doubt will ever happen, but just for fun.... Who would you like to see take over based on their writing style? Brandon Sanderson? He's the first that comes to my mind.
This is also a good exercise because it might turn some of us on to authors to read that we'd never thought of.
Lost Merlin:
George RR Martin, So it could be turned in to a successful HBO franchise that finishes the book story before the books get written if the books ever get written. /snark #maybeiambitter
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: groinkick on March 05, 2018, 07:30:06 PM ---This I doubt will ever happen, but just for fun.... Who would you like to see take over based on their writing style? Brandon Sanderson? He's the first that comes to my mind.
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Nobody. If JB abandons it or has to stop for some reason, I'd prefer to see it allowed to die with dignity than be mutated into something different.
If there's one lesson I've learned from my enjoyment of SF and fantasy all my life, it's that authors are not fungible. This is most visible in things like comic books and soap operas, where a (supposedly) single ongoing story goes through writer after writer. In practice, when the writing team changes, the characters become different people and the story changes into something else.
This even happens with the same author, if he pauses from the story and then returns to it after too long a time. The author changes too much over the long time gap to pick up the story without changes, even if only in tone. Ten years is about my thumb rule on that. If there's been more than a decade since the previous installment of a series, or the earlier book, or whatever, I usually don't let myself invest much excitement or interest, because I can be pretty sure the sequel won't 'work' well.
Only JB can write Harry Dresden. If someone else wrote Harry, no matter how skilled or well-informed and 'up on the story so far' the writer might be, Harry wouldn't be Harry Dresden anymore, and the story would no longer be The Dresden Files.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on March 06, 2018, 04:57:37 AM ---Nobody. If JB abandons it or has to stop for some reason, I'd prefer to see it allowed to die with dignity than me mutated into something different.
If there's one lesson I've learned from my enjoyment of SF and fantasy all my life, it's that authors are not fungible. This is most visible in things like comic books and soap operas, where a (supposedly) single ongoing story goes through writer after writer. In practice, when the writing team changes, the characters become different people and the story changes into something else.
This even happens with the same author, if he pauses from the story and then returns to it after too long a time. The author changes too much over the long time gap to pick up the story without changes, even if only in tone. Ten years is about my thumb rule on that. If there's been more than a decade since the previous installment of a series, or the earlier book, or whatever, I usually don't let myself invest much excitement or interest, because I can be pretty sure the sequel won't 'work' well.
Only JB can write Harry Dresden. If someone else wrote Harry, no matter how skilled or well-informed and 'up on the story so far' the writer might be, Harry wouldn't be Harry Dresden anymore, and the story would no longer be The Dresden Files.
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Maybe and maybe not. I know people who are fans of the Wheel of time series, and they actually preferred the books that Brandon Sanderson did when he took over the book series.
wardenferry419:
I concur with the creative team change, especially how it applies to comics. What I would give to have a return to Claremont days of X-men.
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