tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post5944561581539552071..comments2024-03-07T13:47:29.810+00:00Comments on Lloyd of Gamebooks: Ian Livingstone in Edinburgh - A guest post by David WaltersStuart Lloydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15100216520313336932noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-57701655844735084932012-08-25T21:59:12.103+01:002012-08-25T21:59:12.103+01:00That is classic, Dave, and well done Jamie for sta...That is classic, Dave, and well done Jamie for standing up to the women in black brigade!David Waltersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-24201438592489691972012-08-24T11:58:35.163+01:002012-08-24T11:58:35.163+01:00A bit of trivia relating to horrific gamebook scen...A bit of trivia relating to horrific gamebook scenes: when Jamie Thomson was writing his part (the first half) of Keep of the Lich Lord, he got a comment back from Marc Gascoigne at Puffin that one of his death paras was "too lurid and violent" and that "the most effective horror is understated and subtle". Jamie had to write back saying, "It's Fighting Fantasy, not The Woman in Black!"Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-39211057231904849732012-08-24T09:14:55.216+01:002012-08-24T09:14:55.216+01:00Good point about Freeway Fighter - that seems to h...Good point about Freeway Fighter - that seems to have passed me by. Ian did emphasise in the talk the risk of setting it in the modern day as he is clearly a sword and sorcery man.<br /><br />Ian didn't recall the book with the changed death scene, but said the death scene had been something akin to being slowly devoured by a horrible monster but had been changed to the equivalent of simply fainting.David Waltersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-9483104880441000022012-08-20T14:20:10.387+01:002012-08-20T14:20:10.387+01:00It was Ian’s first book of the series not set in t...<i>It was Ian’s first book of the series not set in the fantasy world of Titan, so this represented a level of risk for him.</i><br />What about <b>Freeway Fighter</b>?<br /><br /><i>one example of where a horrible death scene had been heavily sanitised for a foreign market</i><br />Did he go into any detail about which death scene this was?Ed Jolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07293815550517824166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-82804593374077748832012-08-19T11:54:19.025+01:002012-08-19T11:54:19.025+01:00I've always wondered how he managed to write t...I've always wondered how he managed to write these books in such a short amount of time, they seem so complicated to write! <br />We're welcome to make a new Zagor one ourselves? Well thanks Ian, I may just do that! In fact I have a rather interesting idea for a prequel of sorts, something of a "Journey to Firetop Mountain"....Zanafarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17588951783248424353noreply@blogger.com