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21/04/2011

A year on from my last update - honestly, I sometimes wonder why I still bother - the web's full of anally-retentive geeks with too much time on their hands (and all the arguments look the same after a while... a quick look on the Malazan, Dr Who or Leiji Matsumoto forae will soon turn exactly the same rants about timelines, (lack of) continuity, yadda yadda...) what do these people do all day? Copy and paste the same rants with a find and replace for the proper nouns? Sheesh. Who cares? It not as though history is an an exact science either...

The sharp-eyed might note a change of title... Given that I only ever wrote the Taliesin stories to a) order and b)take the piss out of certain people, BBC/Virgin books and long-running rants on radw and Jade Pagoda, I'm sidelining the Taliesin stories. In a few weeks I'll move that part of the Thirteen Worlds off to one side, to concentrate on the non-pop culture side of things.

In a way, this amounts to "doing the same job of filing the serial numbers off established tropes and mythological cycles, only without the potentially actionable references to a certain classic British TV series". Which is quite honestly what I started out doing in the first place until Brax side-tracked me...

Hence the title. Which should give you a hint as to my attitude towards my source material...

So in saying a fond "farewell" to the Book of Taliesin, I'd like to thank the army of little helpers (knowing and unwitting...) who made it all possible.

The Ravens:

The unwitting muses (real and unreal): The wonderful, late and much missed Elisabeth Sladen, Tom Baker, Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Eric Stoltz, Hugh Jackman, The Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Northwest Smith, Eric John Stark, Conan, Corwin and Merlin, Captain Harlock, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Zelazny, Julian May, CL Moore, William Morris, Ken Slater (who gave me part of the orginal idea, and who will always be missed)

The Owls: Paul, Kate, Jon, Lance, Mags, and most of Jade Pagoda. With thanks for more raw material than ANYONE could ever use.

Just in case anyone actually still reads this, the only other news is that I still have Ben (above!) and he's as gorgeous and full of himself as ever.

Not that I'm a great one to keep in touch, but on the off chance Will Rea from Wilsthorpe 6th Form ever comes across this page - drop me a line mate! It's been years but I'd love to get in touch again!

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"Standing Stones" image (c) Mags L. Halliday 2001