In a message dated 2/13/2003 9:44:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I generally dislike them, but every once in a while I get a link to one that > manages to *not* make me want to bathe my brain in acid by the end. I > understand a labor of love, but it still amazes me that anyone would put this > much effort into doing something "just because." I'm still trying to figure out how much of Contacting Aliens is actually high grade fan fiction. At the present time, some stories seem to have no connection to anything else that is currently happening in the Uplift Universe. And to me other stories, the Pring and the Whales specifically, have to be incorporated into Brin's work when he returns to the story of the members of the Streaker who still have not reached Earth [if ever.] As to Contacting Aliens: I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the Thennanin tails and the retractable claws, and most importantly, how a 1.75 meter tall Thennanin can take an up the skirt picture of a 1.75 meter tall Acceptor and still show his neck cloak cord. So to answer that last question, I either have a 2/3 completed piece of fan fiction that'll never go anywhere, or a rough sketch of the opening chapters for another Uplift novel for whenever Dr. Brin wants to write a story about taking the Soro Clan down a peg or two. Though I think the Uplift Universe will get TEPEd first. That's the Tandu Evasive Population Explosion, unless Dr. Brin is going to come up with an even worse pun. I do not want the Hoon winning the America's Cup to be a piece of fan fiction. I want to see it done properly, and I cannot see why eventually it should not be done. It is a logical continuation of trends of Jijo influences to the Hoon home planet. It's a hell of a lot more logical than suddenly finding out that Spok has a half brother... [Argh!!!!] So, to twist the subject line, is it a fan fiction if you are only writing something for the author's eyes and not for the fans? William Taylor -------------------- More of an answer than was expected? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
