Question About The Typhon Pact Books
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I don't know the reason for the delay, but it shouldn't really matter. Despite the umbrella title, the books are all pretty independent and don't have to be read in a specific order.
I figured that, I was just curious about the reason for the change.
I would imagine it's because David Mack wrote the Destiny trilogy, which sold well, and this would then result in more bookstore orders for the Typhon Pact series. Much like why Alan Dean Foster was hired to write the first of the (now shelved) nuTrek books.
Or maybe that's a connection I made that has nothing to do with reality. Either way, I get a David Mack novel a month sooner. So I'm pretty thrilled.
Or maybe that's a connection I made that has nothing to do with reality. Either way, I get a David Mack novel a month sooner. So I'm pretty thrilled.
I like the title "Rough Beasts of Empire". It sounds like a Mirror Universe WWF tag team. 
I like the title "Rough Beasts of Empire". It sounds like a Mirror Universe WWF tag team.
... whereas, to me, it brings to mind Rudyard Kipling, Graham Greene, and various British literature commenting on the nature of Britain's imperial projects of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries...
I keep reading it as "Rough Breasts of Empire" and am sure the finished product will be different than I keep imagining...
I'm reminded of William Butler Yeats, myself.
Mirror Universe Rudyard Kipling?
I like the title "Rough Beasts of Empire". It sounds like a Mirror Universe WWF tag team.
... whereas, to me, it brings to mind Rudyard Kipling, Graham Greene, and various British literature commenting on the nature of Britain's imperial projects of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries...
Mirror Universe Rudyard Kipling?
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If you're right, that's an even better analogy than you realized. I was the first one hired to write an Abramsverse book, but then they wisely decided to bring in ADF and lead with him instead.
^ Yes; I was being unclear, that's exactly what I meant. It was decided for him to write the first one, even though he wasn't hired first, for sales reasons.
You describing that situation is the reason I jumped to that conclusion for Typhon Pact. Which still doesn't mean I'm right, but from the outside, it seems awfully similar.
You describing that situation is the reason I jumped to that conclusion for Typhon Pact. Which still doesn't mean I'm right, but from the outside, it seems awfully similar.
I'm reminded of William Butler Yeats, myself.
I like the title "Rough Beasts of Empire". It sounds like a Mirror Universe WWF tag team.
... whereas, to me, it brings to mind Rudyard Kipling, Graham Greene, and various British literature commenting on the nature of Britain's imperial projects of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries...
Mirror Universe Rudyard Kipling?
Good God, I don't even want to imagine how much more propagandistic a Mirror Universe Rudyard Kipling would have been. Let alone how much more murderous and oppressive a Mirror Universe British Empire would have been.
Well duh, who do you think founded the Terran Empire?
Honestly, I'd always assumed it was an outgrowth of the pre-Weimar German Reich.
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Well duh, who do you think founded the Terran Empire?
Honestly, I'd always assumed it was an outgrowth of the pre-Weimar German Reich.
That's an interesting thought. I've thought of it maybe occurring in one of the late World War II conferences between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, that the idea for global empire to prevent such things as Hitler and Hirohito from happening again. Or maybe a more aggressive United States set out from it's beginnings to start overtaking it's part of the world and expansions and alliances and wars set forth from there.
I hope that the beginnings of the Terran Empire can be told in a book one day.
I'm reminded of William Butler Yeats, myself.
... whereas, to me, it brings to mind Rudyard Kipling, Graham Greene, and various British literature commenting on the nature of Britain's imperial projects of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries...
Mirror Universe Rudyard Kipling?
Good God, I don't even want to imagine how much more propagandistic a Mirror Universe Rudyard Kipling would have been. Let alone how much more murderous and oppressive a Mirror Universe British Empire would have been.
It's the Mirror Universe. Who says there ever was a British Empire instead of the Welsh Supremacy?
