Byron Merritt Interview

[Inoculator9]

Here is the full interview:

1) Do you believe living around such a creatively gifted family as yours has proven to be, has been an influence on your own writing skills and styles?

Byron: I hope so! I spent many summers with my grandfather (Frank Herbert) before he passed away. He often read stories that I'd written and had given me pointers on characterizations, plots and prose. I talk to Brian Herbert (my uncle) frequently, too. He always asks me what I'm working on and gives me ideas and support. So, yes, it has influenced me tremendously.

2) What were your first impressions of your grandfather, Frank Herbert's Dune novels when you first read them?

Byron: Mind blowing. It was unlike anything I'd ever read before. Reading Dune truly changed the way I looked at literature. I looked back at some of the previous novels I'd read and laughed at them after I'd finished reading Dune. It set the bar incredibly high for the science fiction genre (and the literary world in general). There are few novels that do this

[Dunenewt]

:O

If only I'd seen this sooner.

[Inoculator9]

Lol, what does that mean?

[Dunenewt]

I could have submitted some of my own questions.

[Mahdi]

We'll keep this stickied for about two weeks, I'm gonna try and redo the interview and chat archive today so after we unsticky it it won't get lost.

[Inoculator9]

Fantastic :)

[Mahdi]

Btw, in case you're wondering, I just edited the title. When it got split the title chagned to add "RE", I deleted it.

[Inoculator9]

Oh, thank you :)

[Andrew]

I enjoyed this interview and a Brian Herbert interview would be great, although a bit longer of time to submit questions would be nice. (as the last one was only up for 24 hours)

Lots of good news seems to be coming out.

[Inoculator9]

Just got posted at www.dunenovels.com, with a nice link to Fed2k:

http://www.dunenovels.com/news/merritt.html

[Mahdi]

Nice.

[Inoculator9]

Very :)

[Andrew]

I was going to say "very", until I seen that innoc had already posted it below Mahdi.

Very. :)

[nemafakei]

You could always have posted:

Indeed.

[Inoculator9]

Indeed ;D

[Mahdi]

Well, it's been a little over a month now, with no serious replys in about that amount of time. Plus, with xenogear's new post, I think it's getting on time to unsticky this.

[Inoculator9]

Growing older.... :D Yeah, I was wondering why it stayed up so long, lol :P

[Mahdi]

Growing older.... :D Yeah, I was wondering why it stayed up so long, lol :P

And I'm sure that post wasn't made for teh sole purpose of bumping it back to the top, now was it Inoc? ::)

[Inoculator9]

Oh, maybe subconsciously. I'm sorry if I've offended you Mahdi... you may beat me now.