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HH
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Al B. Harper

Member Since: Mon Jan 04, 2016
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Subj: Re: Probably.
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 at 07:46:19 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: Probably.
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 at 06:07:39 pm EST (Viewed 723 times)



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        Why didn't I bring [Wexford] back as a new new god?



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    Who is to say you didn't? Thurgos could have recruited more.


Sometimes less is more, and rarer better than common.


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    He was quite the character.


You may recall that I outlined in my e-mail to you before the current UT mini-revival that I was going to operate on some slightly different writing ground rules (for example, not mentioning the real-life full names of poster-characters).

Another thing I'm tending towards, though not as a hard and fast rule, is to move away from cast who are directly lifted from or blatant copies of mainstream comics characters. Thugos is one such carbon version so I thought I'd give him one last good outing and then set him aside. We're still a parody-verse, but in deference to a decade of sophistication and progress maybe we can manage slightly more veiled parodies?


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      And, strangely, it was easier to write about alien pleasure slaves when I was happily married than when I am unhappily divorced.



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    Ah, bummer. I wouldn't know, I'm still unhappily single.


It's hard onr a writer to have a real-life daughter who is the age of all these romantic heroines who get chased by all those heroic (and villainous) young men. Writing that stuff was so much simpler at 20.

As for the Caphans, who started as a quick joke about all those nubile slave-girls beloved of Captain Kirk and early SF, they then became a longer-form satire and subversion on those kinds of stories and upon the "Gorean" sub-genre of fiction about worlds where all women are enslaved sex fantasies. And then I just got into telling their stories. But how well all of that might translate outside a literary context where there were also hundreds of in-continuity stories that did not centre upon nubile slave girls I'm not sure.

I was very tempted to do a PV story called "Fifty Shades of Green" though, wherein Miiri and her sisters crushingly critique a dashing sadomaschistic playboy and his hobbies.

Fun fact: Visionary and I named the nine original Caphans after James T. Kirk's various alien conquests in Star Trek, simply adding a double vowel to each name.





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