Kinflame
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Hello Falerin! I'm Kinflame, an aspiring novelist who is currently at work on a second novel (see 'Serrath'), and am highly curious about you. Firstly, I have read your responses to Samiskl's Tolkien questions, and found them strikingly like my own! If the books were 600 pages shorter, it would be an epic. Until then, it's much too long winded and takes 20 pages more than needed for every event. Nonetheless, I read it, as I did the Wheel of Time. Good for a rainy day, no? First off, I'd like to start with what I'm most inquisitve about. Have you ever written a published work (a novel, novella, short story, anthology, even if it be a short newspaper fiction piece)? I have had short fiction and poems published and also some nonfiction material but none at a national level Secondly, what's the longest piece you've written based on the background of Lore and its history? All thas Evil is not Dark is Probably the longest though Manifestation is pretty long too Whats the longest non-Lore piece you've written? A 150 page character background short story for a friends RP setting. Do you enjoy online MMORPG fantasies, strategy, text-based, graphical, etc.? I do. I was a BETA tester for the original Meridian 59 and the site administrator/programmer for a mud for a number of years. I also served as a mud programmer for some other text based games and have done numerous play by IRC rpg things. Have you ever read Gothic: Four Hundred Years Of Excess Horror, Evil, And Ruin? Not a depressing book, just an incredible look at the history and way of goth. I'm not a goth at all, and I found it mesmerizing. I cannot say that I have. And last, but not least, what would you say was the most powerful (influential, imaginative, and well-written) book of the twentieth century? Personally, George Orwell's '1984' comes to mind, or Arthur Clarke's '2001: A Space Oddysey.' and it's sequels. A hard question. Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm come to mind as being pretty significant. Goldings Lord of the Flies also rates because of its insight into the Darkness inherent in human kind. I like Clarke but I am not to fond of the whole killer AI thing. While it is unquestionably influential its been so overdone it loses impact. Differing works affect different people. I suppose if pressed I would say that I would have to go with either Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlen or Bradbury's Farenheight 451 for their effect upon me as well as their critical acclaim. That said individual works which normally dont make the list in general terms can have very profound effects on individuals such a work for me would be Cynthia Voigt's Building Blocks which is Young Adult fiction and thus generally overlooked Cheers, your humble admirer and fellow forumite, KF Edit: Heh, meant '84 not '81. Fool that I and my typos be. As for your last response, I'd most definitely list Lord of the Flies and Fahrenheit 451 among 'most influential', but I'd have to disagree with your comment on Clarke- it (the genre) has most definitely been overdone, but it was Clarke who pioneered it- it had never been done when he wrote 2001. That is why I listed it- it has been so often done because he wrote it, and it influenced the rise of a whole sci-fi subcult. I've never read 'Building Blocks', but I am familiar with Voigt's works. I'll have to check it out Definitely do... its quite good... albeit written for younger people. If you have not read Stranger in a Strange land I recommend it highly too
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