Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:19:38 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Retief's Peace or Stolen Characters
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 10:00 PM 5/13/05 -0400, Madeleine Yeh wrote:
>    I have rarely seen a series continued by a new author
>that was any good.

It helps if the original author is still around.  The "Man/Kzin Wars" books
were actually very good (I think there were 7 of them).  They were written
by lots of different people, but all with Larry Niven's permission and
assistance so they got the details right and didn't interfere with each
other.  The "feel" was even better than with Niven I think...as he says,
he's not into war much and doesn't know a lot about how it's done, but the
Kzin are a very warlike species and I don't think he "got" them as well as
some of the other authors did.

-- Mike B.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left.