Anonymous writes...

I do get tired of reading recommendations on the back of `fantasy' genre books that the story is `comparable to Tolkien at its best'. The stories rarely have the sense of history, epic quality or the strong development and twists of character development that, in my opinion, typify the best of Tolkiens work. Very occasionally I come across stories that show storytelling for the art that it should be, most recently probably the Rama series by Arthur C Clarke and Gentry Lee, or Stephen Donaldsons work. It is rare to find well told stories on the television, although I believe that `Star Trek: The Next Generation' has often succeeded in this. I consider that the few episodes of Gargoyles that have been shown in the U.K. also have this quality and because of that I believe that they are important and are stories that need to be told. This quality of storytelling is rare and should not be consigned to obscurity because a company does not believe that it constitutes a marketable product at the time. I appreciate that for contractual and copyright reasons you cannot publish the stories that have yet to be told in Gargoyles, but if you can find the time and energy, please write them down before other projects take your time and creative energy and maybe in a few years time the circumstances will be such that you are able to publish them, even if further animated series are not possible. Thanks for taking the time to listen Paul Oliver