![]() ![]() ![]() Even in my ‘Overland’ books, it’s horrendous in places, but no matter how much things change, there will always be good people, kind people, creative people struggling against the tides. “He’s a good guy and a really good writer, even long before he had this kind of mega-success.” But if there’s one difference he finds between himself and Martin, it’s his sense of faith in humanity. He and his wife have three teenaged children and they both spend significant time as chauffeurs all over Santa Cruz County from their home in the Soquel hills.Īs for Martin and the “Game of Thrones” empire he has inspired, Williams is happy for his friend’s staggering success. Williams, who grew up in Palo Alto, has been busy building his alternative world while still maintaining a remarkably busy family life in the “real” world. Thus was born the germ of the story that would guide his next trilogy. “I thought, these people have gone through the equivalent journey that I’ve gone through in that period of time,” he said. He began thinking about revisiting a set of characters he hadn’t thought about in 25 years and the idea appealed to him. “For one thing, I’m a totally different person than I was when I wrote this originally.”īut that reason not to write the sequel morphed into a compelling reason to do so. “I remember sitting there in bed, thinking of all the reasons I was going to tell her why I couldn’t write (a sequel),” he said. Williams remembers the day a few years ago when his wife, former publisher-turned-writer Deborah Beale, asked him why he never entertained the idea of doing a sequel. The first book in that trilogy, “The Dragonbone Chair,” was published in 1988, and was praised in epic-fantasy circles for tweaking and subverting the tropes and conventions of fantasy that had been in place since the heyday of Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Martin has even pointed to the Santa Cruz-based Williams as an inspiration and influence on his own work.īut it’s the “Memory” trilogy and its world of Osten Ard that he’s returning to in his first effort at sequelizing his work. When are you going to finish it? Get the hell out of here and go do some work.”įrom that inauspicious beginning grew a relationship of mutual admiration and respect. “No, seriously,” Martin said, glaring at Williams. For a second, he thought Martin might rise from his chair and slug him. Taken aback, Williams began to sputter apologies and to beat a hasty retreat. “He’s always looked like your ex-biker uncle,” Williams said.) Martin took one look at Williams and growled, “Get the hell out of here.” (Then, as now, the bear-like Martin could cut an intimidating figure. “I just wanted to introduce myself and tell him, ‘Hey, I really like your work,’” remembered Tad Williams, a fellow writer who at that point, like Martin, had already achieved some moderate success in the epic fantasy genre. Martin was approached at a convention by a young colleague. SANTA CRUZ > More than two decades ago, long before he became the most famous novelist in the known universe, “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. ![]()
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