Robimus posted: It's just different, thats all. To each their own. And what does any of this have to do with the thread title. Absolutly nothing
Zorrixor posted:I'd say the general sentiment has far more to do with people not wanting to infringe the work of the comics than anything to do with Traviss. And at least Uli and Dawud, along with myself, have all said we're looking forward to the Imperial Commando series. I also said in my original post that I actually like her work, I just don't feel an author from a hard sci-fi background in military fiction is what I'd want in the more mythical historic era. So, this thread is not an "everyone hating on Traviss" thread. If anything, I'd say its more the case of its an "everyone loving on JJM" thread and not wanting anyone to step on his toes. There's ample unexplored territory (i.e. Dark Times) for other authors to focus on, rather than the EU throwing all its got at just one short time period. If anything, I'd far rather see her do a Great Sith War or Great Hyperspace War novel than two series set during the Mandalorian Wars. Or better yet, the Jedi Civil War, which we currently know next to nothing about other than that Malak "killed" Revan, other than that it's a blank canvass for whichever author gets around to writing about it. For the major war in the time period, it really is amazing that the main chapter is still untold. At the end of the day, the Mandalorians are the small fries compared to the carnage the Civil War and ensuing Dark Wars caused. But all we know can be summed up in a paragraph.
Robimus posted:And what does any of this have to do with the thread title. Absolutly nothing
Zorrixor posted:I'd say the general sentiment has far more to do with people not wanting to infringe the work of the comics than anything to do with Traviss. So, this thread is not an "everyone hating on Traviss" thread. If anything, I'd say its more the case of its an "everyone loving on JJM" thread
blackmyron posted: I don't even think it's that, Patch - like I said, anyone writing a novel set in the Mandalorian Wars would cause complications for the KOTOR comic until it passes into the Jedi Civil War era.
Dawud786 posted:I just wanted to point out that I said nothing about Imperial Commando.
Dirk_Loechel posted:patchworkz7: Uhhh...all else aside...seriously? And I mean just in general; do you read much outside SW? Ursula le Guin? Octavia Butler? Gene Wolfe? Harlan Ellison? Anybody? (...) I want to stress this is nothing personal, but politics has been in literature and even escapist fantasy for as long as it has been around. I'm rather gobsmacked at the blanket statement. Did any of those comment of the politics of the day? I would not be aware of that. Cannot speak for Le Guin or Wolfe, and it's been a while since I read Ellison's short stories. But I would not remember them making statements about whatever was in the news when they wrote the books. Nothing's deader than yesterday's news, or something. Don't get me wrong, politics in escapist fition is fine if it is kept on a more general level; but if the book wantss to talk to me about the situation in Basra in 2005, or about Tony Blair's internal politics, it shoots itself in the knee, since this will be the past and cease to be interesting probably before the book makes it to the printers. That's what I was getting at. If writing a novel, you neet to take into account it's long production/product cycle. You can comment whatever Blair did wrong in a newspaper, since it is printed daily, and will very likely be relevant when it hits the street. You better should not in a book, lest you want to have your views invalidated. With daily politics, that is very likely after about a year. That's where the 'cardinal sin' is. You shoot your own fiction with this (with some, very few, exceptions to truely iconic events, which can make good backdrop for SciFi/Fantasy writing).