I love your Merchant Princes series. That series and the Honor Harrington series stand out in my mind as good science fiction with strong female characters. I don't usually enjoy stories with female leads, but I enjoyed every minute of the Merchant Princes.
Have you ever used unused (or used) ideas from your D&D days in your stories, or vice versa?
If you could meet any dead science fiction author for a day, who would you meet and what would you do?
How hard was it for you to break into the US market? It seems like it's relatively uncommon to see authors from other countries -- the one big exception I can think of right now is Neil Gaiman (and Terry Pratchett, who's done it so well that I forgot he isn't American, and a ton of other people that I feel bad about forgetting now...) -- and absolutely rare to find translations of science fiction authors who don't write in English. Do you have any thoughts on that? Any translated authors that you have your eye on?
If you could choose between The Merchant Princes becoming a video game, a movie series, a TV series, and a limited HBO TV series, what format would you choose? Who would you pick for a director and some of the leads? Would you want to do the screenplay yourself?
Do you have any go-to books or authors for when you're feeling down?
Do you yearn to pen a script for Doctor Who? Who would your personal choice for the next Doctor be, if you happen to be a fan?
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I love your Merchant Princes series. That series and the Honor Harrington series stand out in my mind as good science fiction with strong female characters. I don't usually enjoy stories with female leads, but I enjoyed every minute of the Merchant Princes.
Have you ever used unused (or used) ideas from your D&D days in your stories, or vice versa?
If you could meet any dead science fiction author for a day, who would you meet and what would you do?
How hard was it for you to break into the US market? It seems like it's relatively uncommon to see authors from other countries -- the one big exception I can think of right now is Neil Gaiman (and Terry Pratchett, who's done it so well that I forgot he isn't American, and a ton of other people that I feel bad about forgetting now...) -- and absolutely rare to find translations of science fiction authors who don't write in English. Do you have any thoughts on that? Any translated authors that you have your eye on?
If you could choose between The Merchant Princes becoming a video game, a movie series, a TV series, and a limited HBO TV series, what format would you choose? Who would you pick for a director and some of the leads? Would you want to do the screenplay yourself?
Do you have any go-to books or authors for when you're feeling down?
Do you yearn to pen a script for Doctor Who? Who would your personal choice for the next Doctor be, if you happen to be a fan?
Thanks in advance!
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