Posted By ShadowTek on 01 Oct 2011 01:24 PM
...would have been cool if he had gotten away and been a long term enemy..

Well, in that lies a tale...

Really? Cool!

Hey, Baz! Good to have you back!

Do tell. And I'll echo Wordsmith - welcome back.

Thanks folks. Whether I stay around or not depends if the owner still thinks I'm a troll...

Anyhow, thats all water under the bridge.

Back to Bloodlines and the rapid demise of Melmoth at the start of Crossways...

Melmoth was named for the lead character in "Melmoth the Wanderer" a gothic story published in 1820 and written by Charles Robert Maturin...

Laurence had plans to have Melmoth badly hurt Ryan at the start of Crossways and escape to become a recuring "pain in the arse" (His words to me in a letter from 1998) to the group in future books. GE didn't go for this idea (somethings never change do they?) and he had to change the start of Crossways at the 11th hour to remove all references of this and kill off Melmoth.

Bloodlines is one of my favorite DL books of all, followed by Dectra Chain and Time Nomads.

Finally to answer ShadowTek in his post that started all this

...was it me or was it painfully obvious that they were vampires?

Yes it is obvious to us but to Ryan & Co -who have never read about Vampires it was not be AND before you say "what about Mildred?" Well to her Vampires are things of fiction -they don't exist in the real world only in books and films...

Jim

That makes sense as the cover of Crossways shows the vampire on it, even though hes only in the very beginning. That also sort of answers another question I had in another topic about GE. Thanks for that info

Posted By ShadowTek on 02 Oct 2011 07:38 AM
That makes sense as the cover of Crossways shows the vampire on it, even though hes only in the very beginning. That also sort of answers another question I had in another topic about GE. Thanks for that info

See its all clear when you know the answers...

What other question did I answer for you?

Jim

how come you now so much about the deathlands books andall the stuff that the riters would only now. do you still get letters from him did he tell you why he stopped riting the books. this is really interesting stuff and you are the guy i said about in another post of mine.

Baz was a personal friend of Laurence James, the original Deathlands author. Unfortunately, Mr. James passed away several years ago.

thats reall  ysad but really cool at the same time. i didnt relaise that the riter had died that is sad. it must be good to now a lot of stuff about the books that the riter didnt add in or had to change. i wonder if baz nows more stuff like this.

still sad about mr james tho.

Posted By )3az )3aziah on 03 Oct 2011 10:05 AM

Posted By ShadowTek on 02 Oct 2011 07:38 AM
That makes sense as the cover of Crossways shows the vampire on it, even though hes only in the very beginning. That also sort of answers another question I had in another topic about GE. Thanks for that info

See its all clear when you know the answers...

What other question did I answer for you?

Jim

It was this one:
http://www.jamesaxler.com...ic/Default.aspx#4375

But it didn't go so well, but as you pointed out I think it was not so good I would guess, but yes its cool having "inside info"  Also thanks for the correction! As I listen to the GA audio books, I go by what I hear. So I may mess up on the spelling, for example Ryans gun is called a "Six Sour"? That is what it sounds like but know that cant be right lol

Glad to be of help to you.

Sadly all my knowledge of the DL books "inside" workings only goes as far as the books Laurence penned and what he chose to tell me about them.

SIG Sauer is the German arm of the Swiss company "Swiss Arms AG" and so the way the name is spoken is correct with the second part being pronounced as you would say "sour" SIG is an acronym of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft and pronounced as you would the first syllable of "signal", so we say "sig sour". The American arm of the company is called SIGArms inc. and was founded in 1985.

Jim

Posted By )3az )3aziah on 08 Oct 2011 07:54 AM
Glad to be of help to you.

Sadly all my knowledge of the DL books "inside" workings only goes as far as the books Laurence penned and what he chose to tell me about them.

SIG Sauer is the German arm of the Swiss company "Swiss Arms AG" and so the way the name is spoken is correct with the second part being pronounced as you would say "sour" SIG is an acronym of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft and pronounced as you would the first syllable of "signal", so we say "sig sour". The American arm of the company is called SIGArms inc. and was founded in 1985.

Jim

Thanks again for the info, I knew I was way off on that gun name, Sig Sauer makes allot more sense then Six Sour haha