Ein Beitrag von Horst Hermann von Allwörden
The »Night Angel« trilogy by Brent Weeks was in Germany published by Blanvalet (Random House) and made Brent Weeks popular here as well. His trademark is Heroic Fantasy with a dark impact. In the U.S. the first volume of »Light Bringer« was published with the title »The Black Prism«.
Reason enough to talk with this author about fantasy in general and his contribution to it ...
Ein Beitrag von Uwe Weiher and Horst von Allwörden
Norman Spinrad, born in 1940, is one of those who founded and established the 'New Wave' of SF 'in the U.S. He is one of the science-fiction authors who take action their novels. In Germany he became famous for his novel "The Iron Dream" (dt: "Der stählerne Traum") who was placed on the German index of writings harmful to young people. " This is one of the issues we talked about...
Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)
Mark Bauman is not really famous (so far :-), known far and wide, we had previously known him - quite frankly - only by the fact that he sent Jack Venture on an exciting adventure.
Jack Venture is a private detective, jazz musician, world traveler, treasure hunter and "man of action".
The game book (see the online-gamebook "The Smoking Mirror #1, Murder in Monte Carlo" on the website spielbuch.net by Pierre Voak) still is in "demo" status, Mark is still working on it, but some parts of this story history of a Pulp Thriller / Mystery genre are already published. We liked them so much that we wanted to know more about the author and its positions on gamebooks. Here is our interview with him.
(Note: The sections marked as quote are textparts taken from the game).
Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)
A headless soldier riding through a spooky forest and killing innocent people for apparently no particular reason in the small town of Sleepy Hollow on the East Coast of the United States. The people are helpless. Luckily Ichabod Crane, investigator of the police fallen in disgrace in New York, has nothing to do right now. He is sent to the sleepy hole and is supposed to clearify the situation. And of course he does.
Washington Irving told a pretty different story in his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", published in 1820 in a story collection called "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." 1
Ein Beitrag von Horst Hermann von Allwörden
A born Chinese with Finnish passport founded a publishing company in England, und publish German fantasy. That is an example of globalization. Enough reason to turn to, with some questions to the perpetrators of this project and we asked questions and got answers.
... Barry Hutchison on »Invisible Fiends«, friends and moral
... Brent Weeks on fantasy, colors, magic and the »glut in the 80's«
... Norman Spinrad on SF, Iron Dreams and commercial censorship
... Mark Baumann on »Harrowing Tales«, gamebooks und their chances in the WWW
Headless Hessian and human trafficking -
... Venjin He and Heero Miketta on Xin, publishing, principles and German