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Post by Chris Hedges on Jun 8, 2011 8:58:54 GMT -6
Very, VERY cool tale, Gene. I finished it this week in perfect timing, because the day I finished it, Collected Tales From the Baha Express landed on my doorstep. :-)
I loved the characters in this story. It took a while to get to the climax, but the build up and character development was so interesting and well done, that it didn't really matter. A lesser writer could have lost a reader, but you kept me turning the pages.
I'm halfway through The Burden of Indigo right now. I wish I could sit and read it straight through, but real life makes me get up and move sometimes. lol I'll post on that one when I'm finished. So far, lovin' it. :-)
~C
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Post by sdkdmd on Jun 8, 2011 18:37:33 GMT -6
A fine tale indeed.
One thing i've wanted to do ever since i've read it was go to the lost coast. Tell me Gene didn't bring that place to life.
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Post by Chris Hedges on Jun 8, 2011 19:29:21 GMT -6
I was wondering if the folklore behind this story is real or fiction as well. If it's real it was damn well researched. If it was fiction...it was damn well written. Creative. Gene?  ~C |
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Post by geneoneill on Jun 9, 2011 9:58:05 GMT -6
Chris, John, and perhaps interested others: I do probably more research than is necessary for each piece of work. LOST TRIBE began long ago with my interest in the rather mysterious early people of Japan, the Ainu. Then a number of years ago a body was discovered near the Columbia River that had Caucasian characteristics...and was 10K years old! Kennewick Man. I followed the developments closely. But before the body was released for DNA analysis a year or two ago, I discovered some Japanese research indicating a theory about the Ainu actually first migrating down the west coast of North America. At the same time I read some highly speculative stuff about a white tribe in Northern California, perhaps dating back to that migration. After some more review of Native American lore up there, and even looking at schematics of Pelican Bay when it was first built, I wrote the novella WHITE TRIBE, still thinking about expanding it to LOST TRIBE (Kay and I have indeed hiked the Lost Coast and know this area of the country well). I wrote the book, and recently after KM was released to the Feds, the DNA studies suggest that Kennewick Man is indeed Ainu. Of course in fiction there is literary license...a lot in this case.
Gene
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Post by Chris Hedges on Jun 9, 2011 11:32:48 GMT -6
Oh, cool. The Lost Coast is real? ? Guess what just made it on my bucket list. lol Awesome work, Gene. Very impressive. :-) ~C |
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Post by geneoneill on Jun 9, 2011 17:34:51 GMT -6
Chris: One of the best hikes in NorCal.
Gene
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