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garrick lee (goner4sure@yahoo.com)
Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:06:28 -0800 (PST)
>
> To date, the dismal failure of the Del Rey novels in
> the American market,
> compared to their more successful Robotech original
> novelizations by Brian Daley
> and James Luceno, writing as Jack McKinney, have
> them disinclined to reissue the
> books, despite the runaway success of Gundam Wing.
> Or maybe because of it --
> Gundam failed, in part, because it wasn't Robotech
> and, whatever you may think
> of the translation, was written in a style quite
> different from the "McKinney"
> books. If people buy the original Gundam novels
> expecting it to be like Gundam
> Wing, they'll be just as disappointed as Robotech
> fans who bought the Gundam
> novels back when.
>
well, i liked the robotech books as a whole other
thing from the robotech series.
but i think the million dollar question is how did you
find the del rey first gundam books, z? how are the
books, authoring and storywise?
seeing as how they're in limbo, as far as printing is
concerned, are they worth hunting down to read?
-garr
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