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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 21:09:34 GMT
Is anyone interested in who the people are behind the books and specifically what they look like? We all know what messrs Jackson and Livingstone look like but what about some of the others not pictured in the Fantazine? Jim Bambra:  ![]() ![]() |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 21:15:36 GMT
Pete Tamlyn (worked on AFF) from a picture from White Dwarf 45 - Sep 1983.  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 21:32:54 GMT
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 21:57:38 GMT
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 21:58:36 GMT
Carl Sargent (aka Keith Martin)  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 22:30:34 GMT
Graeme Davis the Midnight Rogue. Still involved in RPGs like Warhammer FRP   |
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Post by kieran on Jun 9, 2022 22:35:52 GMT
Looks oddly like the Dark Elf Sorcerer. |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 22:43:44 GMT
American Steve Jackson   |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 22:56:25 GMT
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 9, 2022 23:02:32 GMT
Thomson again, Dave Morris (on the sauce) and Paul Mason + his younger version. Taken from Youtube MantiCon 2018 upload.  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 11, 2022 20:48:29 GMT
Looks oddly like the Dark Elf Sorcerer.    Keith Phillips, yesterday A Dark Elf Sorceror, in profile |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 12, 2022 8:09:04 GMT
These folks are all already on the Wiki, but included here anyhow.
Andrew Chapman Marc Gascoigne. Left from Warlock Magazine, and right more recently.   |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 12, 2022 8:11:20 GMT
Luke Sharp aka Alkis Alkiviades![]()  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 12, 2022 8:39:27 GMT
Robin Waterfield.  You can hear what he sounds like here....
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Post by misomiso on Jun 12, 2022 10:04:14 GMT
Wow Robin Waterfield is a proper Greek Scholar! Would like to see him try a Greek / Philosophy based Gamebook!
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 12, 2022 10:59:52 GMT
Wow Robin Waterfield is a proper Greek Scholar! Would like to see him try a Greek / Philosophy based Gamebook! Yes, he is. I read his book Xenophon's Retreat some years ago and enjoyed it and learned a lot. Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age is Robin Waterfield’s epic story of a band of Greek mercenaries stranded in Persia, forced to fight their way home across deadly terrain.He could write a book on that and make it true to life set in our world, or in a semi-mythical version of Earth populated with monsters, or even apply it to Allansia with an army trying to make its way home. |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 12, 2022 11:11:39 GMT
Already to be found elsewhere on these very boards but put here for the sake of completeness and because it's contemporary was taken at some point during the 90's and has Steve Williams in it... left to right Tim Harford OBE [not an FF author], Dave Morris, Steve Williams, Paul Mason  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 12, 2022 11:16:01 GMT
Again already on here on the boards but here he is again anyway. Peter Darvill-Evans, then and now-ish   |
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Post by Peter on Jun 13, 2022 6:56:45 GMT
Thanks for these. Most authors are not at all as I imagine them to be.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 13, 2022 9:48:45 GMT
I nearly forgot Jon Green!  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 13, 2022 10:57:04 GMT
Easy to find images of the two most recent FF contributing authors. Just Martin Allen left to go. But I can't find his picture. Charlie Higson Rhianna Pratchett.
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Post by sleepyscholar on Jun 15, 2022 0:30:48 GMT
That's the Australian author Mark Smith, not Min. |
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Post by sleepyscholar on Jun 15, 2022 0:34:50 GMT
Already to be found elsewhere on these very boards but put here for the sake of completeness and because it's contemporary and has Steve Williams in it... left to right Tim Harford OBE [not an FF author], Dave Morris, Steve Williams, Paul Mason The picture is not contemporary. It is well over 20 years old. I can't believe I look younger than Tim (he's about a decade younger than me). This is what I look like nowadays:  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 15, 2022 17:49:29 GMT
That's the Australian author Mark Smith, not Min. Gah! Thanks for pointing that out. But that means the internet LIED to me. And having never seen Mark Smith in the flesh I was easily duped. The biography underneath that man's photo on the alchetron website is certainly in keeping with our intended author.. Mark Smith is an author of gamebooks, including co-authoring two Fighting Fantasy titles (Talisman of Death and Sword of the Samurai)..Oh well, I just spent about 20 minutes stalking Mark Smiths on the internet and found another way to find him. More confident with this one... but I'd sooner have all these photos of the folks both then and now. ..  |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 15, 2022 18:11:22 GMT
This is what I look like nowadays: Clearly it has been a hard life over in Japan, but what with their remarkably long-lived population you should still fit in ok. Look at what has happened to Steve Jackson when I looked him up on Amazon. He's getting younger somehow and has become a poet.  |
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Post by CharlesX on Jun 15, 2022 18:52:25 GMT
Already to be found elsewhere on these very boards but put here for the sake of completeness and because it's contemporary and has Steve Williams in it... left to right Tim Harford OBE [not an FF author], Dave Morris, Steve Williams, Paul Mason The picture is not contemporary. It is well over 20 years old. I can't believe I look younger than Tim (he's about a decade younger than me). This is what I look like nowadays: The big head must help with constructing complicated, out-there Fighting Fantasy, while the more than passing resemblance to a well-known Gallifreyan Time Lord is definitely because The Doctor, as well as a Harry Potter fan, is a Fighting Fantasy fan who regenerates into your body. 🚿 |
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Post by sleepyscholar on Jun 15, 2022 22:56:48 GMT
The big head must help with constructing complicated, out-there Fighting Fantasy, while the more than passing resemblance to a well-known Gallifreyan Time Lord is definitely because The Doctor, as well as a Harry Potter fan, is a Fighting Fantasy fan who regenerates into your body. 🚿 If only! You're forgetting: I don't write Fighting Fantasy, and haven't since the series ended in 1995. |
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