tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post1567627781284802789..comments2024-03-22T19:07:21.790+00:00Comments on The Wertzone: Did George R.R. Martin create wookies?Adam Whiteheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-88512757304497268682010-09-24T00:41:19.349+00:002010-09-24T00:41:19.349+00:00Very cool, thanks Adam.Very cool, thanks Adam.Paul Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03055837972178141573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-81871095389844787792010-09-23T13:52:50.794+00:002010-09-23T13:52:50.794+00:00Cool find, Adam! It is such that imaginative/creat...Cool find, Adam! It is such that imaginative/creative geniuses like Martin, Tolkien, Asimov, etc. (yes, in the same sentence) have been the inspiration for countless threads of fiction, art and cinema.<br />After reading GRRM's "Fevre Dream" I wondered if the big cuddly one was the first to think up the concept of the synthetic blood substitute for Vamps! Turns out no one has the market for any Vampiric lore as such, but regardless it was an amazingly creative vamp novel. Way better than the current Stackhouse/Twilight drivel.BAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17088658506850035513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-15666978031422554602010-09-23T07:50:23.594+00:002010-09-23T07:50:23.594+00:00Yup. Not unusual in those early days, actually, wh...Yup. Not unusual in those early days, actually, when the number of people playing the game was far less. Stross wrote an article for White Dwarf magazine introducing the D&D githyanki in 1979, when I assume he would have indeed only been 15.Adam Whiteheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-62392430033096275552010-09-23T02:12:47.740+00:002010-09-23T02:12:47.740+00:00I posted this on io9 too, but Stross was born in 1...I posted this on io9 too, but Stross was born in 1964 - he was writing for D&D as a 15 year old?Paul Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03055837972178141573noreply@blogger.com