I came up to him and said, ‚Oh hi, you’re George Martin.
And I read The Dragonbone Chair and said, ‘My God, they can do something with this form, and it’s Tad doing it.’ It’s one of my favourite fantasy series.”
“The Dragonbone Chair and the rest of his famous four-book trilogy were some of the things that inspired me to write my own seven-book trilogy.įantasy got a bad rep for being formulaic and ritual. in fact - when I finally made my way to Tad’s book-signing table, and was able to explain who I was and why I wanted to stick a microphone in his face (jeez, that came out wrong) before he left for the next town, which meant. It was well after midnight - close to 1 a.m.
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Being as I was already a fan of the Otherland series, I couldn’t really pass on the opportunity to meet him, any more than George RR Martin would pass on the opportunity to kill your favourite character.Īnd so, I found myself in a crowded auditorium at around 8pm on a Tuesday night with Tad Williams and a theatre full of local fans, all of whom wanted their copies of Tad’s entire bibliography to be signed. Yes, it’s true: Tad Williams was on a book-signing tour around Germany, and his itinerary just happened to take him through Saarbrücken while I was there. I’m just saying), and whose acclaimed foray into science fiction, the Otherland series, managed to correctly predict some of the most disturbing aspects of 21st century life.
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Tolkien, whose writing also allegedly inspired George RR Martin to write his acclaimed Song of Ice and Fire series (which, if you think of it, also makes him responsible for the ‚Red Wedding‘. It’s certainly not the place you would expect to inadvertently cross paths with a man whose work has been compared favourably to J.R.R. If you miss the program, you can still stream it via the Reality Check podcast or at /7tage. Saturday, November 25th, 12-13, and afterwards seven days on demand.
Listen to a Reality Check Special with Johnny Bliss and Tad Williams, on a journey into fantasy medieval worlds and satirical future worlds.
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