Quote from: ChrisPachi on May 03, 2012, 11:46:22 PM
What an amazing position to find yourself in. I would give anything to have been in his shoes during that process.
That's for sure Chris. I guess anybody would. But just how a young author with so few credentials could catch the big man's attention... Beats me. He must have pitched mighty concepts to secure a job with Scott. A collaboration with Greg Benford or Joe Haldeman would have seemed more in keeping with the importance of the event, and Scott's professed ambitions.
Fortunately, the wait won't be long now and when the veil of mystery and secrecy finally parts, there'd better be surprises, twists, grand revelations and shocking scenes galore. I trust there will be, though a line such as "If you don't stop it, there won't be any home to go back to !" doesn't strike me as being particularly original, races against time to save the world have been done before...
I guess Sir Ridley would counter by saying that it's all a amatter of angle.