OT...great books

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That's because the Belisarius series is written by Eric Flint, despite David Drake's name on the cover, he just provided a general script. Shiva option was written by David Weber and Steve White, based on a strategy tabletop game.

Try 'Redliners' or his 'Hammers Slammers' series. I only read Redliners once and I avoid Hammers Slammers.

[Randallw]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
That's because the Belisarius series is written by Eric Flint, despite David Drake's name on the cover,

I've always wondered about stuff like that. When there are two authors, who writes what?. I've got a Turtledove book cowritten by Richard Dreyfuss. Do they write half of it each, did Dreyfuss come up with the idea and let Turtledove actually write it, or do they spend hours on the phone (or in a forum) comparing notes.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

If I'm familiar with both writers, I can generally tell who wrote what. Try looking for types of phrases that the auther re-uses, like David Weber doing a non-sequitor in an internal monologue.

[gregebowman]

Randallw said:

I've always wondered about stuff like that. When there are two authors, who writes what?. I've got a Turtledove book cowritten by Richard Dreyfuss. Do they write half of it each, did Dreyfuss come up with the idea and let Turtledove actually write it, or do they spend hours on the phone (or in a forum) comparing notes.

I've often thought the same thing. Sometimes they'll tell you in an author's note, but most times you're left clueless as to which author did the primary work. Especially if they live hundreds or thousands of miles away from each other, how do they coordinate everything? The overhead for faxing or mailing copies to each other must be prohibitive to most people.