Liner Notes for The Gladiator's Salute
Liner Notes for The Gladiator’s Salute This wasn’t my first plan for this year’s set of stories . I had intended to do a series of stories, built around variations of the same cast, all journeys, but all reincarnated as different versions of themselves each time. Each journey by different methods, across different terrain, for different reasons. And so each character having to take a different role, so in a peaceful train journey the warrior is a security guard with nothing to do, when driving a supply truck across a war torn landscape he’s in charge etc. But to be honest I didn’t have any idea what to do with it. Sure, I could come up with 13 different journeys but what did it add up to? I was gambling I could come up with an ending. I was with this as well, but we know how to end a gladiator series – a big fight! I thought I’d get more mileage from the world gates, but they’re just there, this is the only time it actually matters and I could have written Eyes and Lady A...
