[ChrisW]

I love the way Gemmell writes and there is not one of his books i've disliked but I tink i'm getting tired of the same old ideas ie. The source,stones of power,good spirit guys vs bad spirit guys,Hero has a dark side that he struggles with, alternate realities etc.

Would anyone else like to see him try something different or are you content with him churning out the same old stuff over and over?

[Rob B]

I've only read the first two of his Rigante novels and enjoyed them both.

But it is funny you bring up Gemmell in this way because during my lunch today a read the following Interview with Gemmell at The Alien Online (http://www.thealienonline.net/interviews/davidgemmell_mar02.asp?tid=3&scid=24&iid=474).

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[Loque]

Let me guess, you've just read stormrider and had a similar reaction to 90% of people including myself ie 'well, it's good, but...' i thought it started really well but when he brought in that skull of kranos stuff it went downhill and i didnt like gaise much. Apparently now he's working on a crime novel about a female police officer so clearly he has decided it's time for something new himself.

[Loque]

sorry, i just found out that the crime novel isnt happening, sorry to confuse. I have no idea what he's doing next, if i hear i'll tell you. Cant actually get to a stormrider signing DAMNIT! but i know some people who are going so maybe they'll know.

[James Barclay]

Read Gemmell's Jerusalem Man books. Not swords and sorcery and splendid with it.

[Loque]

well, there is sourcery, but it's a bit different, i agree, they are good books and quite different from the rest.

[Cannon Fodder]

I would like to see Gemmell tackle something a bit different. I like his books and have read just about all of them (Though not Stormrider as of yet) but after a while you begin to notice a certain repetitiveness to his work. Not necesarily the entire book will be a repeat of an older book but most the elements will have been used before in one his realier works, be itan element of the plot, a character, a relationship, one incident or whatever. As for what else he could try... I'm not too sure. Maybe a straight historical or alternative history novel without any magical or fantasy elements, a bit like The Lion of Macedon for about the first half.

Apparently he has written one non-fantasy work under a Pseudonym. I forget what it was now but it was mentioned on one of the Gemmell sites.

[JohnH]

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[Loque]

white knight, black swan-ross harding

[Zsinj16]

Quote:
"Read Gemmell's Jerusalem Man books. Not swords and sorcery and splendid with it."

Actually, I think from what I've heard about the Jerusalem Man Series a.k.a. The Sipstrassi Series, they would be classified as not 'swords and sorcery', but 'guns and sorcery'! http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/biggrin.gif