I would like to take this occasion to commemorate my remarkable although still defunct good friend and erstwhile writing partner Chester (CVJ) Anderson; poet, novelist, musician, beatnick, iconoclast and deconstructionist. His modern spiritual, "I spent the Night in a Motel With Jesus," has a wonderful and deeply moving first verse. The second verse, he insisted, was even better, but he never would sing it aloud. The World, he said, wouldn't understand. Read More
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CVJ
August 12, 2012
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Sep 05, 2012 1:30 PM EDT
Ten Years to Doomsday was a great book, and the character in The Unicorn Girl was the sort of personality that makes you check your assumptions at the door. For safety.
I wondered if Castamere Parr in Perchance was cut from the same mold.
- Bob McArthur
Sep 05, 2012 1:42 PM EDT
I think Castamere Parr is my version of a hero - the Competent Man, unflappable, wise, yet ready to listen to others and take advice, and always aware that we're all in this together.
- Michael Kurland
Oct 15, 2012 12:11 PM EDT
Did you ever have an idea of doing more books in the [u]Perchance[/u] universe, or any sort of Paratime universe?
- Bob McArthur
Oct 15, 2012 2:27 PM EDT
I have started one. About 40 pages into it. But I've had to put it aside for now. Sometime soon I hope to get back to it. Thanks for your interest.
- Michael Kurland
Jun 06, 2013 8:15 AM EDT
I just bought and read Perchance for the first time, rather belatedly, and liked it. I was reminded in a vague, general way of Keith Laumer's Worlds of the Imperium, although the style is different and your characters more likeable. I was also reminded somewhat of The Unicorn Girl, which I picked up a few years ago.
- Jonathan Palfrey