We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Bingo ! That was my conclusion after finishing it for the first time.
Swordbearer is in many ways a literary exercise more than a storytelling
exercise. That's part of why things move so fast, this one was
definitely written on the assembly line (between parts assemblies, not
writing technique)
And I'd have said "...went downhill...", not "snowballed" :-)
Derrill 'Kisc' Guilbert wrote:
>Here's how I envision Mr. Cook as having come up with the story for
>Swordbearer: "So there is this hero, right? And he has this sidekick, and
>this legendary sword. Well, what if the story didn't go like we thought?"
>and things snowballed from there.
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>This is a serious question; I'm not being a smartass (for once).
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>Kisc
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We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
