19th December 2006, 3:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 19th December 2006, 3:51 PM by Great Rumbler.)
Quote:If he'll be back later, it's no big deal, but if he will never appear again, I'd feel cheated not knowing his motivations.
Eric Dalton is definitely coming back [literally!!], so don't worry about that. Everything he did will be explained in detail, most likely near the end of the second book.
There's a lot more to his story than what's in the prologue. Also, remember that the prologue is from a book and not all writers are unbiased about their subjects...
Quote:Please don't be too sensitive, some of it is criticism, but it's only intended to help.
Don't hold anything back here, guys. The editors at Tor [or wherever] aren't going to say "Well, Great Rumbler is a pretty great guy so we won't be too hard on him, even those his story isn't all that great [this is of a course a LIE, but anyway, not my point] and just go ahead and publish his story anyway so that we won't be mean to him". I WANT you to be hard on this story. If there's something you don't like, TELL ME. I'm desperate to make this as good as I can, and there's just some things that I'll miss if it's just me trying to critique it.
Quote:I want to see how people seven hundred years in the future celebrate such a milestone event in more than just the generalities. I can see and appreciate the analogs to our own time, but people will change in such a span of time, and how are they celebrating the end of 2699?
Okay, that's something that I've been hearing from others as well. I'll delve into the prologu again tonight and see what changes I can come up with.
By the way, the second half of the prologue [with all the death and destruction] has had a lot of stuff added to it.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.