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Originally Posted by Gudy
While I agree with the general assessment that his latest offerings are quite a bit weaker than his earlier efforts, I need to defend him in this case. The Empire series was a truly collaborative effort, with Feist and Wurts swapping chapters back and forth, rewriting each other's scenes. Yes, the style is markedly different from REF's usual fare, but it's also quite (but IMO not as vastly) different from Wurts' style. There are occasional scenes where you can still detect who wrote what (the scene where Mara's spy master infiltrates the Hamoi Tong HQ is definitely showing REF's signature, e.g.), but to say that Janny Wurts did most of the work is grossly unfair and, from what I know, plain wrong.
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Could be, as I've not read much of her other work.
I assumed that she did much of the work as there was such a change in style, which in most collaborative works I've read means that the someone other then the headline writer did most of the work.
So If I'm wrong, I'll apologize but withe the caveat that by the time I got to the Empire books, I had gotten a bit fed up with the repetitiveness of Fiest's work, and as such did to pay as much attention to the Empire books when reading them as I did his earlier books.