08-21-2012, 08:08 AM
I googled a bit, it being late where I live and all, and I found that Abbey has authored one more novel, as well as edited two more anthologies for TW, them being "Sanctuary",
"Enemies of Fortune", and "Turning Points". (The titles you named are from her "Orion's Children" series, which I don't know.
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They sure sound interesting, though I am getting the feel we're up for a cliffhanger - nothing has happened to TW for seven years by now, so, it's likely dead.
Also, and that I found really annoying - the TW books by Green Ronin, which otherwise are very strong RPG books, and which are among the few RPG products that I thoroughly enjoyed,
they paint a rather bland picture of Abbey's setting, which is situated about sixty years after the novels. Most of the more interesting characters are dead or removed from the setting,
which has to do with the copyright issues that halted TW in the late 80s, as well as with a very obvious consideration that all too powerful NPCs would sort of elminster the player characters.
But the downer about this is that almost all of them get killed off, or have really bad lives after the end of the original novels. Which is sort of unnecessary, given the tone of the original books,
and because I think the setting would have worked very well without it. Also, the new surrgoate Hanse really sucks. :wink:
...Though, yeah, sooner or later, I am gonna read them, too. TW, one of the few true favorites I have in fantasy literature.
"Enemies of Fortune", and "Turning Points". (The titles you named are from her "Orion's Children" series, which I don't know.
)They sure sound interesting, though I am getting the feel we're up for a cliffhanger - nothing has happened to TW for seven years by now, so, it's likely dead.
Also, and that I found really annoying - the TW books by Green Ronin, which otherwise are very strong RPG books, and which are among the few RPG products that I thoroughly enjoyed,
they paint a rather bland picture of Abbey's setting, which is situated about sixty years after the novels. Most of the more interesting characters are dead or removed from the setting,
which has to do with the copyright issues that halted TW in the late 80s, as well as with a very obvious consideration that all too powerful NPCs would sort of elminster the player characters.
But the downer about this is that almost all of them get killed off, or have really bad lives after the end of the original novels. Which is sort of unnecessary, given the tone of the original books,
and because I think the setting would have worked very well without it. Also, the new surrgoate Hanse really sucks. :wink:
...Though, yeah, sooner or later, I am gonna read them, too. TW, one of the few true favorites I have in fantasy literature.