Ray McCarthy
I've no idea, really. Possibly sometimes news items, a passing comment in conversation or something incidental in a book.
"Hero Genie-Sys" was from a discussion about how silly "super heroes" are getting. After reading the quotes of the "Mystery Men" film, I decided I'm not funny enough to do a "take off" of the Superhero genre.
"My super power is the colour brown?"
"No, just brown."
The "Talents Universe" SF series was the result mashed up of designing a smart phone like device in 1987 and again in 2006, the impossibility of FTL (Faster Than Light) travel and reading far too many school stories (1780s to 1980s approx).
The "Otherworld" series was inspired by Irish myth & legends of the oldest kind and "what if" the Tuatha De were really the 1800BC to 500BC Bronze Age Celts (really displaced by Iron Age Celts) and really led to an "Otherworld" by Manannán Mac Lir. What would they be doing today? What if Manannán Mac Lir was really one of the Aes Sidhe? (Ash Shee, people of the mounds.)
"Hero Genie-Sys" was from a discussion about how silly "super heroes" are getting. After reading the quotes of the "Mystery Men" film, I decided I'm not funny enough to do a "take off" of the Superhero genre.
"My super power is the colour brown?"
"No, just brown."
The "Talents Universe" SF series was the result mashed up of designing a smart phone like device in 1987 and again in 2006, the impossibility of FTL (Faster Than Light) travel and reading far too many school stories (1780s to 1980s approx).
The "Otherworld" series was inspired by Irish myth & legends of the oldest kind and "what if" the Tuatha De were really the 1800BC to 500BC Bronze Age Celts (really displaced by Iron Age Celts) and really led to an "Otherworld" by Manannán Mac Lir. What would they be doing today? What if Manannán Mac Lir was really one of the Aes Sidhe? (Ash Shee, people of the mounds.)
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