About 20 years ago, I was talking to a clerk at a local bookstore. I mentioned being a fan of Ray's work. The clerk said they were based on EPT games. I asked if they could order me a couple of the RPG books, which they did. When they arrived, I paid for them, got home, and started reading through them and thought "how is this related to the Riftwar"? Yea, I think I still have those game books someplace. Fool me once :-).
Ben On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Raymond Feist <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:55 AM, "Stroup, Shelley A CIV SWOS N61" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I actually got to meet Janny Worts thru Goodreads.com, when they were > > doing a group read of your work (the first four) and the Kelewan series! > > She has a generous spirit and was fully engaged in the reading and > > answering peoples questions! So I see your point Ray, it does > > dis-credit all yours and Janny's hard work! > > > > Good thing I never read that kind of "crap" (for lack of a better word)! > > > > Shells:) > > > > -- > > Look, I won't speak ill of Phil Barker. I never met the man, so > everything I know about him I got second hand from mutual acquaintances. > He seemed to have a particular blindspot and one of his fanboys went off > and came up with something ridiculous, like 200+ things they claim I had > "copied," from EPT. It's that sort of stupidity that spawns especially now > on the internet. Stuff like "low mental planet," which both Phil and I > stole from Jack Vance's Big Planet. The intelligent bugs, which as someone > else pointed out could have been John Norman. I stole that from Alan Dean > Foster. It even got to the point where they went back and started looking > at Midkemia Press products and started claiming Steve, Jon, and the rest of > the gang had built it "to be used with EPT," which was BS, because we made > them "generic" which was 1970s gaming code for 'to be used with Dungeons > and Dragons, but we don't want to pay the licensing fees." > > Anyway, as I said Phil's no longer among the living, nor is Joel,and I've > got a 30 years career here where even Phil's most ardent fanboy can't claim > Faerie Tale had anything to do with EPT. The last is supposed to be > amusing. > > I think had Phil's books done well, he probably wouldn't have gone so > ballistic. Save his most ardent fans who claim their brilliant, there was > no audience for them. Don Wolheim, his publisher, and Betsy his editor > passed on a third EPT. I think he self-published that one about 10 years > ago. Heck, his own publisher told him to stop yapping because there was no > basis and it made Phil look bad. He was claiming "plagiarism" even though > my book came out 2 years before his book. The general consensus was he was > a hell of a game designer, not so much a novelist. > > Franky, I'm surprised the subject has come up again, as I've not been > asked about it in over 15 years. > > Best, R.E.F. > > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > >
