[juzzza]

I bought 'Dissolution' after seeing the ad here on SFFWORLD.COM
'cause I liked the look of it. I had no idea it was about Drow.

What a great read I'm really enjoying it but can anyone explain the tagline 'From the imagination of Salvatore' when the series is written by a number of different authors.

Thanks

:confused:

[Rob B]

If I am assuming correctly, this book is about Drizzt. Drizzt is the creation of RA Salvatore. Other people are writing stories using the character Salvatore created.

[juzzza]

Hmmm, I haven't come across Drizzt yet but perhaps Salvatore created Menzoberranzan and the underground world of the dark Drow?

Here's another question then.

Have any other authors apart from Salvatore (and of course Robert E Howard with Conan) allowed other authors to run wild in their worlds and with their characters?

:D

[neologik]

"What a great read I'm really enjoying it but can anyone exlpain the tagline 'From the imagination of Salvatore' when the series is written by a number of different authors."

Salvatore's name sells books. Pretty simple.

--gabe chouinard
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[kegasaurus]

Originally posted by juzzza
Hmmm, I haven't come across Drizzt yet but perhaps Salvatore created Menzoberranzan and the underground world of the dark Drow?

Here's another question then.

Have any other authors apart from Salvatore (and of course Robert E Howard with Conan) allowed other authors to run wild in their worlds and with their characters?

:D

George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry.

[Rob B]

Originally posted by juzzza
Hmmm, I haven't come across Drizzt yet but perhaps Salvatore created Menzoberranzan and the underground world of the dark Drow?

Here's another question then.

Have any other authors apart from Salvatore (and of course Robert E Howard with Conan) allowed other authors to run wild in their worlds and with their characters?

:D

That's a bit of a false statement. Howard really didn't allowed anybody to write Conan stories. REH killed himself before he was 30 and before most of the other authors wrote about Conan. REH exchanged letters I think with HP Lovecraft and a couple other authors who were published in Weird Tales, maybe Clark Ashton Smith. Not sure exactly, but they (Lovecraft and Smith) might have wrote either about Conan or the world Conan lived in, Hyborea.

On the other hand, a good many authors wrote about Conan after Howard's death. L. Sprague de Camp in particular, took Conan and wrote more stories about him. In many cases deCamp re-wrote stories, changing words and characters names, that Howard originally wrote.

I read a couple and they are pale imitations of REH's original vision.

A set of short stories based on Michael Moorcock's Elric were collected a few years ago in Tales of the White Wolf, IIRC.

Also, what neologik said, Salvatore is just about a brand name in fantasy.

[juzzza]

That's why you're an administrator FitzFlagg...Because you know stuff. :)

OK:

Have any other authors or their Estates apart from Salvatore (and of course Robert E Howard with Conan) allowed other authors to run wild in their worlds and with their characters?
:rolleyes:

[SusF]

Marion Zimmer Bradley published a number of fan fiction short story books set in Darkover. She did this long before she died, so it was with her permission.

Not sure if this qualifies, but Robert Asprin and a bunch of writers created Theives World, a shared universe which had a large ammount of books and stories written in it.

Susan

[Cadfael]

There is a current series.... The Legends of the Riftwar... each writen by a different author... but edited by the creator of the Riftwar world... Raymond Feist.

The War Of The Spider Queen is I assume a Forgotton Realms book... and this has happened many many times that a different author has written a book in a 'series'. The 'Avatar's' series have different authors... and I am pretty sure Salvatore did help to create the Forgotten Realm's gameworld.. that the books are based in.

The other TSR (or Wizards of the Coast.. as it is now) big series is Dragonlance... the 'Meeting Sextet' ... each book was writen by a different author... and telling of the early lives of the heros of the 'Chronicles' books by Weis and Hickman.

The only other instance of this I can think of is outside of the fantasy genre... Richard(???) Gardener wrote some officiall 'James Bond' books with the sanction of Ian Flemming.

[Warewolf]

Actually, if I remember correctly from an article on Wizards of the Coast's website, Salvatore is providing the plots for these six books and each of the six books in the series will be written by a different author.