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Authorised - Bill's Monthly
Column
April 2003
On
Elves
Hello again. There’s not a lot to
report from here in Prague. Work proceeds slowly on Wolfblade due to
various health issues. The book is shaping up well, though and I
don’t doubt it will make the release date.
After that, it looks like I will be
moving on to Tyrion and Teclis. Nothing has been finalised on this yet
but discussions are in progress with the people at the Black Library.
My current plan, if it’s approved, will see the first three books
deal with the early life of the twins and the great Dark Elf invasion
of Ulthuan. It will also give me a chance to use one of my favourite
ever Warhammer baddies, Malekith, the Witch King. It should also look
in detail at the training of elf warriors and mages, and visit some of
the most famous locations in the Warhammer world close up. I am hoping
I get the go ahead on this one, since I have always been fond of the
Elves, something that would doubtless earn me a good axing from Gotrek,
if he ever got word of it.
If you want to learn more about how I
plan to handle the twins, rush out and buy a copy of Giantslayer
which should be in a store near you now!
New Computer
My old IBM finally gave up the ghost
last month. Its processor was just not up to the demands being put on
it anymore, and it was showing a tendency to overheat and crash so it
got replaced with a new Toshiba Satellite.
Among other things, this has given me a
chance to catch up with some of the great games I have missed out on
in the past couple of years, and a number of hours have been frittered
away on Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology- great games both. I ventured
into my first ever online computer game, and had my butt soundly
kicked at Warcraft by a guy from Munich.
After that it really hit me that we now
live in an SF novel. I can go online at any hour of the day, and play
against and chat with people from all over the world in a simulated
fantasy world. To those of you who grew up with the computers, this
may just seem like the way the world is. I grew up in a world where
computers occupied whole rooms and were used for plotting moon shots.
I had as much chance of accessing one as I had of flying Thunderbird
One. In fact, I didn’t
own my first personal computer till my mid-20’s and it had 1K of RAM
and used a tape recorder for storage. How things have changed.
Finally...
...and an intrusion into the real
world, where real people are really fighting right now;
to those marines I met at Chicago Gamesday last summer, good
luck. I hope all goes well with you.
Till
next time,
Bill
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