“What are your books about?”
Writers intending to be and those who are authors are supposed to have an “elevator summary” explaining their book(s) in a concise, accurate, relatable, minimum number of words in less than a minute. Like in an elevator, a functioning one, that is.
James Hood struggled with this elusive concept and question for decades. What is the “accurate” elevator summary for the Adventure-— series?
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“Star Trek without space flight, set in the 1970s.”
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“Something Jules Verne might have written, if he was writing today.” (Few people recognize the great author’s name and fewer still have read his works. Hint; Around The World In 80 Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea are the most famous)
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“A 20th Century British East India Company clandestinely operating in something reminiscent of “The Twilight Zone” (this one is not too bad, except for 99.9 % of people not knowing about the corporation which controlled a subcontinent and a quarter of the world’s population during the 17th and 18th centuries and operated its own private army and Navy)
‘Still working on “The Elevator Summary.”
(edited 2019 June 24)
JAMES HOOD 