Saturday, February 22, 2014

What's it all about?

It is always difficult for an author to summarize their creations. More so when dealing with a collection, or sequence, of stories that span several universes, several dozen major characters, and nearly a thousand supporting characters. The SmallPowers saga is quite difficult to pin down as being about one theme or concept. That said, I can speak of each of them as being somewhat self-contained and rooted in a particular genre of pulp fiction. Here is a short and very general categorization.

Cindy: Fairy tale.
Ronaldo, Manuel, and Bella: High fantasy.
Bella: Political drama.
Jake and Goili: Low fantasy.
Stella, Olivia, and Beatrix: Romance adventure.
Grazzak: Classic fantasy.
Betkorn: Murder mystery.

There are more novels in the works, and I will do the same here for those next three too.
Lorii: Myth and fable.
Ethan: Surreal drama.
Helga and Beatrix: Hard boiled thriller.

Of the four novels that will follow that, the descriptions become more complex to state as being based around a particular genre. Much of that is due to the saga having enough backstory by that point in this project to be about the SmallPowers universe itself.

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