I heard back from him, surprisingly! Nothing fancy in a response, but so cool to hear back from an author within minutes!
Here's the email thread:
Go for it with my blessing, sounds like a great project!
Adrian
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My name's Sean! I'm reading Children of Time. It's amazing and thought-provoking, thank you for all your hard work.
I'm also really big into ants and was stoked when I read about ants on your world and their interactions with the crystal / messenger.
I'm writing some software as a hobby. It's going to be something like an online Tamagotchi meets mental health app. I'm trying to get people journaling and meditating by having them nurture a virtual pet.
To that effect, I decided the virtual pet would be an ant colony. I then started trying to build some lore around it. A daily-check in means there's a window of time when the check-in occurs, kind of like when the satellite had LOS to the ant colony. The satellite had a biologist on it. Makes sense that biologist would take notes on their ants and I can draw parallels to that to promote journaling, etc.
I just wanted to be respectful of your work and let you know that I was planning on building something that honors a small sliver of the lore you outlined in one of your books. I'm not ripping verbatim, taking any of the names, there are no spiders, etc. If you felt incredibly strongly about wanting me to avoid this then I'd respect that. Conversely, if you were curious to hear more about how I am riffing on your idea, then I'd be happy to elaborate or share more.
Anyway. Hope you are well over there. Thanks again for all the content. Cheers.
I have :) I enjoyed it so much I decided to try and incorporate the idea into some software.
And thanks for this, I reached out to Adrian to promote awareness of my idea based on this feedback since it's so apparent where my ideas are drawing from :)
SeanAnderson|3 years ago
Here's the email thread:
Go for it with my blessing, sounds like a great project!
Adrian
---
My name's Sean! I'm reading Children of Time. It's amazing and thought-provoking, thank you for all your hard work.
I'm also really big into ants and was stoked when I read about ants on your world and their interactions with the crystal / messenger.
I'm writing some software as a hobby. It's going to be something like an online Tamagotchi meets mental health app. I'm trying to get people journaling and meditating by having them nurture a virtual pet.
To that effect, I decided the virtual pet would be an ant colony. I then started trying to build some lore around it. A daily-check in means there's a window of time when the check-in occurs, kind of like when the satellite had LOS to the ant colony. The satellite had a biologist on it. Makes sense that biologist would take notes on their ants and I can draw parallels to that to promote journaling, etc.
I just wanted to be respectful of your work and let you know that I was planning on building something that honors a small sliver of the lore you outlined in one of your books. I'm not ripping verbatim, taking any of the names, there are no spiders, etc. If you felt incredibly strongly about wanting me to avoid this then I'd respect that. Conversely, if you were curious to hear more about how I am riffing on your idea, then I'd be happy to elaborate or share more.
Anyway. Hope you are well over there. Thanks again for all the content. Cheers.
Sean
SeanAnderson|3 years ago
And thanks for this, I reached out to Adrian to promote awareness of my idea based on this feedback since it's so apparent where my ideas are drawing from :)