Post by grinch on Apr 30, 2023 10:01:29 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)
An extremely prolific writer and probably best known as the creator of the Billy Bunter Stories.
He’s one of those figures who you could encounter in a Paternoster Gang campaign or even later on in his life circa the Fifties where Bunter is an established character.
Considering how he once held the Guinness World Record for being the most published author I’m almost surprised the Master Brain of the Land of Fiction didn’t choose him to be the land’s new controller. With Hamilton in control would sort of shape would the Land take? A world where schoolboy japes reign supreme?
Really The Writer (be he based on Hamilton or Hemyng) seems to have been a composite/expy of any of the now-forgotten writers of the Victorian/Edwardian period who churned out formulaic, though popular, stories within various genres.
A thought; how about Lester Dent (wiki) or Don Pendleton (wiki) as the Master of the Land. That might change the Land's characteristics rather drastically. Let alone someone like Laurence James (wiki) or some similar writer of post-holocaust adventures......
With perhaps certain characters being substituted for others. Maybe instead of Gulliver, Billy Bunter would appear? Unnamed, of course, but with just enough description to know who it is. Maybe if that’s too obvious, it can just be another mischievous schoolboy. Using Cyril from The Celestial Toymaker would be a good fit in the role.
Depending on what writer is in charge, that might make the Land more dangerous. More aggressive villains and thrilling situations instead of the usual plethora of fairytale and mythological villains of the original serial.
Actually, it does make me wonder if say “too much reality” is used in the Land (say a writer who specialises in kitchen sink dramas or social realism texts) whether the Master Brain would become more resistant and try fighting back.