8FOLD/FAQ: Your Guide to the Eightfold Universe

[Saxon Brenton]

On Tueday 9 May 2006 Tom Russell <milos_parker at yahoo.com> wrote:

[...]
>    There are some curious thematic overlaps between
>some of the titles.  For example, SPEAK!, THE GREEN
>KNIGHT, THE HOUSE OF FICTION, TEMPLATE, and the first
>JOURNEY INTO... story all deal in a major way with the
>death of a father figure, which has earned us the
>colloquial sobriquet the Dead Parents Universe.

oh.
< thinks back to the series proposal he emailed in a while back
after reading the _Teen Champions_ RPG supplement>
oh dear.

So, Slowpoke being overshadowed by his deadbeat supervillain
dad and Highlight being overshadowed by his dead superhero
dad would only be compunding this perception, huh?

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Saxon Brenton     Uni of Technology, city library, Sydney Australia
    saxon.brenton at uts.edu.au     saxonbrenton at hotmail.com

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