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I haven't had a chance to read Qalyn's link yet (when my manager stops hovering around I'll give it a go) but from ze's description that sounds the sort of thing I'm after. But I'm interested in what different flavours they are to the enterprise, and how far it goes before it becomes a seperate idea.
For example different strains I can think of OTTOMH;
1) Same basic story, different location/time. The Bridget Jones' approach basically.
2) Same basic story, different characters. Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodingers Cat trilogy but done properly, and done to actually tell a story rather than just pissing about.
3) Stories in a different style. Often caused by dramatisations anyway, Bram Stokers Dracula makes Dracula a misunderstood, tragic figure, in the original he's just a bastard. But take it further than that, Ernest Hemingway's Dracula, or Emily Bronte's King Solomon's Mines.
In fiction authors tend to attempt to look original, copying is looked down on, even if in the original we all die in a ditch and in the second one we all go to Heaven. In music, there's no shame in remixing, so I want to take that ethic to fiction. I think it could generate more ideas. Karl Marx writes Perdido Street Station anyone? |
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