Talk:David Gemmell

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i added a section showing the drenai series on cronological order- Im not sure about the swords of night and day but I assume they happened long after all of the other books --Rick browne 14:31, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

The SONAD books take place 1000 years after the time of Druss. -- Dave Hughes 17:03, 11 October 1005

Series

Was Knights of Dark Reknown and Morningstar part of the same series? I am sure they are mentioned as such in Morningstar.

There are references in one of the books to stuff happening in the other, but they have independent plots. --Kristjan Wager 19:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Could not the same be said about many of his Drenai books? Waylander for example has different plots to Legend or White Wolf. But in fairness his books themselves list Morningstar and Knights of Dark reknown as independant books.darkie

Knights of Dark Reknown and Morningstar happen in the same world (there are definite references in Morningstar to the events in KODR), and they both also take place in the Drenai world, several hundred (or thousand) years before Waylander. The country Lentria exists in both continuities and there are a few other subtle similarities to be found if memory serves.

There are definite references to KODR in the Second Skilgannon book, meaning that all three are part of the same world, meaning that these are all Drenai books.

Also, i'm pretty sure, (but not sure enough to edit the page,) that Jarek Mace is referred to in the Rigante series, which also has the same name for the pseudo english that is used in Morningstar. user:The_Sando

Wolf in Shadow

Was reading Wolf in Shadow recently, was David Gemmell a religous man? I suspect not, but I was having trouble enjoying the book on that basis. If he was religious, which again I suspect not, that could be added to the article, as if someone has religious motivations behind summat they do it is always very important that those motivations be reported JayKeaton 05:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Jay Keaton, why were you "having trouble enjoying" WIS because of its religious themes? Similarly, why should "religious motivations" be more necessary to report than other kinds of motivation? Actually, religious themes (although admitedly not with as direct a link to Biblical Christianity) run through the entirety of Gemmel's fiction, e.g. the theme of the "Source" which binds all of his different continuities together. RM - 7 May 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.183.249 (talk) 19:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, he was a Christian who attended church regularly, however his personal faith was often at odds with various doctrines of his church which I think was a Presbyterian, but may have been C.O.E. I'll see if I can dig up the interveiws before I add it though. user:The_Sando

Stones of Power / Shannow

The John Shannow novels are part of the Stones of Power (ASA Sipstrassi) series. The order according to Del Rey:

1. Ghost King (1988)
2. Last Sword of Power (1988)
3. Wolf in Shadow (first published as The Jerusalem Man) (1987)
4. The Last Guardian (1989)
5. Bloodstone (1994)

Del Rey released the first four books with the tag "The Stones of Power" and the last with "A John Shannnow Adventure". The first four novels were also published in an omnibus edition as Stones of Power: A Sipstrassi Omnibus in 1992. The last three novels were published in omnibus form as The Complete Chronicles of the Jerusalem Man in 1995. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 18:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism

Added a reference to the plagiarism of Dark Prince in Lanaia Lee's book Of Atlantis. Discussion of the issue can be found at Dear Author, Making Light, and Writer Beware. I didn't say "Lanaia Lee plagiarized..." because it looks like Christopher Hill may have done the actual "writing" and Lanaia was just (unfortunately for her) taking credit for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadowsong (talk • contribs) 23:04, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Liquidfinale (Steve), does it need to be reported on or does it just need to exist? The book link shows the text in her book, the Dear Author link shows an image of Gemmell's book. They are verifiably the same. Shadowsong 23:22, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, I agree with you. Unfortunately, it needs to be reported as such by a trusted, reliable source (and per Wikipedia guidelines, even a good borderline-blog such as that one is not). See WP:OR for more information, especially the part about taking two separate pieces of information to draw a conclusion. Best regards, Steve ^{T • C} 09:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Victoria Strauss is actually a well-respected source on literary scams. She's notable enough to have her own WP article, FWIW. Novalis 16:11, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

A closer look by Writer Beware reveals that Scottish publishing scam artist, Christopher Hill, was paid by Lanaia Lee to ghostwrite her book, backed up by documents and receipts. Hill apparently plagiarised the first chapter of Dark Prince, unknown to Lanaia Lee. Victoria Strauss reports the remainder of the manuscript appears to be that of a British writer, not an American. Apparently Lanaia Lee also has PayPal receipts showing payments to Christopher Hill.

I'll reword that section to reflect this information.

--UnicornTapestry (talk) 07:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Did someone delete this section? I don't see it anywhere anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.208.251.24 (talk) 19:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

David Gemmell Legend prize

Shouldn't this be mentioned? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:19, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Didn't spot that; I'll add something in shortly. Steve ^T • C 22:33, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

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