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A review by awake_at_midnight
Four Summoner's Tales by Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, David Liss
3.0
From the Introduction:
“It has been said that there are only seven basic plots, and that each and every story can be reduced to fit within the parameters of one of those fundamental structures. While the authors of Four Summoner’s Tales could debate that assertion for eons, that dinner conversation brought Golden and Maberry into a tangential discussion about diverse works that share the same root plot, and how the quality and value of a story comes in the details and in the approach of the individual writer.
In other words, it’s all in the execution.
Wouldn’t it be interesting, they mused, to give a group of very different writers the same short, simple premise—just a single sentence, without any other parameters—and see what the result would be?”
A strange visitor comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk’s dearly departed from the dead—for a price.
For the full review: Awake at Midnight
“It has been said that there are only seven basic plots, and that each and every story can be reduced to fit within the parameters of one of those fundamental structures. While the authors of Four Summoner’s Tales could debate that assertion for eons, that dinner conversation brought Golden and Maberry into a tangential discussion about diverse works that share the same root plot, and how the quality and value of a story comes in the details and in the approach of the individual writer.
In other words, it’s all in the execution.
Wouldn’t it be interesting, they mused, to give a group of very different writers the same short, simple premise—just a single sentence, without any other parameters—and see what the result would be?”
A strange visitor comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk’s dearly departed from the dead—for a price.
For the full review: Awake at Midnight