Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet writes: > >Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> writes: > >> The other unfortunate thing is that Riftwar is apparently based on > >> Feist's home campaign, which apparently had heavy EPT/Tekumel > >> inclusions, which Fiest refuses to acknowledge despite their > >> obviousness to anyone who has read the Barker books (which are, in any > >> case, far better than any of the Fiest books except -maybe- the > >> "Mistress of the Empire" (etc) trilogy). > >I think it's one step further away -- it wasn't Feist's *own* > >campaign, and when he was in it he didn't know that many elements > >derived from EPT. > > Sorry -- by "home campaign" I meant "a campaign he played in", not "a > campaign he ran". Important point IMHO -- if he didn't set it up himself, it's much easier to believe he didn't know the source of particular elements. > >have to say that the Barker book was far inferior. But neither was > >much to my taste, either. I think Barker was working much harder on > >the world- and culture-building, but he was so *totally* hopeless on > >the characters.... > > Um...you were reading _Flamesong_, not _Man of Gold_, right? > _Flamesong_ is, IMO, far inferior -- it's basically a travelouge with > a plot, and (very) flat characters. _Man of Gold_ is much more of a > romp, and has an interesting convoluted plot and at least -some- > characters worth the name. Which was first? I thought _Man of Gold_ was first; in any case the one I read was the first one. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info