There was, the British SF writer E.C. Tubb published 'Pawn of the Omphalos' in 1980.
My username is a shortened version of Severance, and that's been a movie. On another forum I was Severance23, so when 23 became a movie as well I changed it to Severed - and that became a movie as well
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- Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:41 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Omphalos Preps for Filming
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6213
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:31 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Favorite short stories
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24180
Re: Favorite short stories
Are we talking strictly SF here? If not, then mine would include: "Beyond the Black River" by Robert E. Howard "The Dark Eidolon" by Clark Ashton Smith "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore "A Sound of Thunder" by Ra...
- Tue May 17, 2011 3:11 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: SF Authors & Their Favorite Books
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15051
Re: SF Authors & Their Favorite Books
As Roberts mentioned, nowadays he only ever sees the negatives - but he still voted for it as his favourite SF novel ever, so why is everyone slagging him off :roll: I posted some derogatory things he said about KJA over at Jacurutu a few weeks back, so he's okay in my book, even if I haven't partic...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:24 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323557
Re: What are you listening to?
I've loved Dead Can Dance since early 1984, and was lucky enough to see them in London in 2005 - 'Rakim' and 'Desert Song' are two more that are heavily Middle-Eastern in influence. Also from 1984, a German band called Dissidenten collaborated with several Moroccan musicians to make the album 'Sahar...
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:30 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323557
Re: What are you listening to?
Thanks for that, Imhuien, I heard a couple of months ago, a sad loss. Great bass player, and though Japan were tagged with the New Romantic genre, they made some good stuff back in the day. 'Sons of Pioneers' still is a great favourite of mine, and here's an odd version that Mick played with Japanes...
- Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:29 am
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
- Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
- Replies: 167
- Views: 505594
Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Thanks for transcribing that whole thread AToH, it's from way before my time in Dune fandom, looks like I missed out on huge amounts of Byron stupidity. Favorite bit was when he stated his belief that a combination of 'pushing, pulling, and skipping' would get the desired effect without realising th...
- Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:30 am
- Forum: Brian Herbert
- Topic: 1992 interview with Brian Herbert and Marie Landis-Edwards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9331
1992 interview with Brian Herbert and Marie Landis-Edwards
From Paperback Parade #31 October 1992. The following short interview was conducted March 25th 1992 and features a look at two fine newer talents on the writing horizon. I'm proud to present: An interview with Brian Herbert and Marie Landis-Edwards conducted by Gregory L. Norris. The name Herbert is...
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: Fantasy Book Critic Interview with KJA 13Feb2008
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6621
Re: Fantasy Book Critic Interview with KJA 13Feb2008
This one seems familiar to me as well...
Love how Keith answers the question about authors passing away in the last year to plug one of his own shitty products - classy!!
Love how Keith answers the question about authors passing away in the last year to plug one of his own shitty products - classy!!
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:32 am
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 2006 SF Site interview by Killian Melloy
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16594
Re: 2006 SF Site interview by Killian Melloy
In my early 20s, I had a brief and unhappy marriage to a complete Mundane, who had no aspirations beyond working a day job, living in a tract home, and bowling on Thursdays; I could have decided to give up my dreams and stay in that dull life. I'm glad I made the right decisions, for the most part....
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:29 am
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 2006 SF Site interview by Killian Melloy
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16594
Re: 2006 SF Site interview by Killian Melloy
Page 2 KM: If it were up to me to mix and match you with a writing project for a pre-existing franchise, given the fun you had with Wells' oeuvre, I'd love to see you write a Doc Savage story. What do you think? A good pairing? KJA: I used to love Doc Savage, and it certainly would be a project rig...
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:14 am
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 2006 SF Site interview by Killian Melloy
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16594
2006 SF Site interview by Killian Melloy
http://www.sfsite.com/04b/ka222.htm This is a long one - that I bloody hope isn't already here (I did check, but...) - so long that I'll put it up in two posts. According to Kevin J. Anderson's biography section - a wittily assembled page with a scattering of hilarious author photos - at his web sit...
- Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:12 pm
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 2001 By Scott Nicholson, The Writer Who Had No Future:
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5638
Re: 2001 By Scott Nicholson, The Writer Who Had No Future:
It's not entirely because I'm successful and famous... Gosh darn it all, why are we wasting our time and energy ripping on Keith all the time, jealousy run rampant of his success and good fortune. The guy is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING FAMOUS :angry-screaming: :angry-screaming: I suggest it's time we all gr...
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:02 am
- Forum: Brian Herbert
- Topic: 2005: Preface to The Road to Dune (w/ KJA)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9985
Re: 2005: Preface to The Road to Dune (w/ KJA)
I got 'Road to Dune' out from my local library 3 weeks ago, it had to go back today, I've barely had time to pick it up - the one thing I did read was this preface - and I'm bloody disgusted with the first three paragraphs: box corners were sagging, crumpled by the weight of their contents or partia...
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:37 pm
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 25/05/2008 SFX, Jonathan Wright, KJA int. spin-off fiction
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7117
Re: 25/05/2008 SFX, Jonathan Wright, KJA int. spin-off fiction
Does it stifle my creativity as an author because I can’t, say, have jet aircraft in medieval Japan? No, I learn the rules of that universe and I set my story within those boundaries. Er, 'no-technology' in the 'House' trilogy??? and that same year my original novel, Assemblers Of Infinity (with Do...
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:17 pm
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: February 29, 2004 Inoculator9, dune2k KJA interview
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5170
Re: February 29, 2004 Inoculator9, dune2k KJA interview
Bloody hell, he comes over all pissy in this one, doesn't he? A couple of things made me laugh, though: Frank Herbert wrote several excellent books with Bill Ransom; Brian Herbert writes with Kevin J. Anderson. Notice the missing word 'excellent' from the second collaboration. The majority of commen...
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:45 am
- Forum: Brian Herbert
- Topic: SciFi.com. 2000. SciFi Chat transcript
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4716
Re: SciFi.com. 2000. SciFi Chat transcript
I thought their story went that the BJ trilogy 'was' the set-up for Dune 7Spanky 'n' Bobo wrote:After that we'll be working on a Butlerian Jihad trilogy... We intend to write the final book to wrap up the whole story, but we have not yet decided if we'll need to write books to set it up.
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: Nov. 10, 1999 KJA, BH, Transcript from Time Chat Event
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5154
Re: Nov. 10, 1999 KJA, BH, Transcript from Time Chat Event
So, a North African holiday morphs into:
I spent some time in Morocco studying Arabic cultures, Islamic architecture, and philosophy. I stayed in Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakech, Fez, and many other historical sites.
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:49 am
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 1999 by Crescent Blues, Kevin J. Anderson: Pumped on Dune
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5200
Re: 1999 by Crescent Blues, Kevin J. Anderson: Pumped on Dune
Chronologically this must be one of the first interviews, and already Spanky shows that he doesn't get it - referring to the Bene Gesserit as witches :roll: You can't just do a new Dune book and blow it off. So what changed :?: I did my best possible work, because it says Dune on the cover. I can't ...
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:42 am
- Forum: Byron Merritt
- Topic: 2004: Russian FanSite Interview
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6610
Re: 2004: Russian FanSite Interview
I enjoyed the stories for what they were: science fiction for the masses. They were fun reading and it was nice to get a glimpse of the Dune universe during its formation. They aren't (nor were they ever supposed to be) on the same level as Frank Herbert's original Dune. I mean, how could it be? Du...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:29 am
- Forum: Brian Herbert
- Topic: 1999: Afterword from Dune: House Atreides
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9118
Re: 1999: Afterword from Dune: House Atreides
I've been meaning to have a chronological bash at the Dune 7 notes, and this archive will be a huge help. Going through Keith's Dune blogs from 2005 at the moment, must be a glutton for punishment...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 2001: infinity plus
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6856
Re: 2001: infinity plus
there's one I can't find right now, cause I'm kinda toasted, but Keith poo-poos the idea of "other writers" doing Dune stories, because they've got Brian's concordance and Dune is so complex and vast and the less experienced would have trouble keeping facts straight and end up publishing ...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:16 am
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 2001: infinity plus
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6856
Re: 2001: infinity plus
D Pope just posted a link to this interview at Jacurutu - this bit jumped out at me: All of this is a roundabout defense to say that I feel I can tell just as good a story in a Dune novel as in a so-called "original" novel. One begins to develop and imagine the story within an accepted fra...
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:10 am
- Forum: Brian Herbert
- Topic: 2003: Fed2K Website Interview
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4096
Re: 2003: Fed2K Website Interview
This is the only interview I've ever seen where the inner workings of the HLP is mentioned - so basically everything is Brian's fault, the rest of them sit and count the money! And, of course, there's that old chestnut preventing Byron, or any other author, contributing anything - "the tremendo...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:21 am
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 2007: Dune Italia Interview
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5548
Re: 2007: Dune Italia Interview
KJA from Dune Italia interview wrote:I read DUNE when I was 11 or 12 years old, I think.
KJA from House Atreides afterword wrote:I read DUNE when I was ten years old
KJA from Byron Merritt interview wrote:I read it first when I was twelve
So what is it, 10? 11? 12? Has he ever read it? He's certainly never got it.KJA from Writer's Write interview wrote:I read Frank Herbert's Dune when I was twelve years old.
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:04 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: 20K Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6509
Re: 20K Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
This looks like the shoddy 1872 translation by Louis Mercier that cuts out almost a third of the original book - unfortunately it's also the one which is most widely available and read. If you look at the start of Chapter 2 Professor Aronnax writes "I had just returned from a scientific researc...
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Feedback
- Replies: 189
- Views: 464113
Re: Feedback
Just a quick question - why does it say Herbertian at the top of the page? I always thought the preferred word was Herbertarian, or am I missing something?
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:03 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Sunshine(: 2057) ... AKA Boyle's Boil
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19746
Re: Sunshine(: 2057) ... AKA Boyle's Boil
Saw this on U.K. TV a couple of months ago - complete garbage. When I found out that the big bad was actually Pinbacker I thought 'Wasn't there a Pinback in "Dark Star?"' That beachball alien from the latter film would certainly have made Sunshine more watchable.
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:35 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 36054
Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
He taught me quiet a few Britsh words. So is this a US English word or what? :P And offie , as well as being a shortened form of off-license, is also a shortened form of off-spinner - but then you have to know the game of cricket to know that one, and there's no way I'm going to explain that game t...