Is there no end to the Hackery?

[GamePlayer]

That is irony of the highest order. I always felt KJA would fit right in with the disposable pulp science fiction writers of the 20s-50s, both in terms of quality and creativity. All KJA need do is write a "Galaxy of Terror" script and he'll have done it all

[TheDukester]

This is sort of a two-part question, really:

1. No, he has never written an original line in his life. Everything he hikes out is essentially Star Wars, with maybe some Terminator, Galactica, and other pop-culture elements tossed in. But it's basically just Star Wars.

2. KJA is, though, the perfect writer of novelizations. All joking aside, I'm surprised he hasn't done more of them. The essential ingredient for novelizations is speed: working from just a shooting script, the writer is expected to produce a usable effort in a matter of just a few weeks.

My theory: the only reason KJA isn't just a specialist in this field that he's perfect for is that he feels it wouldn't afford him his self-proclaimed place in literary history. He's clearly obsessed with being "one of the greats." And the great ones don't do novelizations, yo.

[Sole Man]

I agree with The dukester.

That's one of the things with SOLE MAN: It had the bad ripoffs, but it made fun of that fact. It was a parody of itself.

I wonder what Mr. Anderson would think o fthat. Maybe he'd call it garbage and unorginal.

In an unrelated note, I'm sad.

[Nekhrun]

That is irony of the highest order. I always felt KJA would fit right in with the disposable pulp science fiction writers of the 20s-50s, both in terms of quality and creativity. All KJA need do is write a "Galaxy of Terror" script and he'll have done it all

Yes, but back then whom would he have been able to copy?

[Schu]

I heard someone say that they thought the saga of seven sons was pretty good. I was glad that I'd already lost all respect for him before that, but now I'm losing all respect for his rather cute and seemingly smart girlfriend too

[SandChigger]

...now I'm losing all respect for his rather cute and seemingly smart girlfriend too

Does the boyfriend have money? Or is he hung like a horse? Those are the two main reasons smart gals end up with dumb guys.

Or does he slap her around? 75% of women seek out and remain with abusive partners due to some no-longer-relevant neural circuitry that releases endorphins in such emotional stress situations. (At least, that's the only reason I can figure for the phenomenon.)



I've only read bits of one of the The Suns volumes, but it was the same shit as all his other books I've looked at (tell-no-show, shallow characters, insipid writing, BAD BAD BAD [Sing it, Mallory!] "science").

Didn't someone point out long ago that Kevin also did the novelization of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ... which was originally a graphic novel to begin with? HOW FUCKING STUPID is that? (I've seen the movie—Feh!—but not read the original. Supposedly the movie story is significantly different, so I suppose you could milk some sort of weak justification out of that?)

This just occurred to me: which came first, his novelization of TLoEG or his Nemo and Martian War novels? Because the essential conceit is the same: that certain fictional characters and their adventures were real and simply set down by the authors known for them. (Kevin's Wells takes part in the trips to the Moon and Mars, but his Verne is just a hack who scribbles down the tales told to him by his dashing friend Nemo ... or so the reviews say; caveat: I've read neither.)

According to the dates on WP, the TLoEG novel (2003) came out between the Nemo (2002) and Martian War (2005) ones, but of course the original Moore stories predate all of them, so he doesn't get to claim originality here, either.