20 Questions

osh

Chancer3001 wrote: »

The arts, science, religion or technology ?

8. Yes

Chancer3001

the arts?

Sin City

Millionaire ?

osh

Chancer3001 wrote: »

the arts?

9. Yes

Sin City wrote: »

Millionaire ?

10. Yes, I'd expect so anyway

Pretzill

Is it Stephen King?

(If not) Is he a writer?

Kolido

What exactly does the arts cover? Painting, sculpture, writing?

osh

Pretzill wrote: »

Is it Stephen King?

11. No.

Googled to see and he (King) is worth $400 million

I'd be nearly positive this guy is a multi millionaire though.

Pretzill wrote: »

(If not) Is he a writer?

12. Yes

Sin City

osh wrote: »

11. No.

Googled to see and he's worth $400 million

I'd be nearly positive this guy is a multi millionaire though.



12. Yes

Does he write thrillers ?

osh

Sin City wrote: »

Does he write thrillers ?

13. No

quickbeam

Fantasy or Sci-fi?

osh

quickbeam wrote: »

Fantasy or Sci-fi?

14. Yes

quickbeam

George RR Martin was my first thought but a quick Google says he's worth "only" $65 million. So somebody more popular than him??

quickbeam

Oh wait, it's Stephen King that's worth $400 million, not our guy.

osh

quickbeam wrote: »

George RR Martin was my first thought but a quick Google says he's worth "only" $65 million. So somebody more popular than him??

The $400m worth was Stephen king just to be clear.

quickbeam

Yeah just read back and figured that out, whoops! :P

quickbeam

Completely off topic, but I just Googled the highest net worth authors and according to this, Elisabeth Badinter is the richest. And I've never even heard of her!

osh

Edited it for clarification anyway!

quickbeam

Have his works been adapted for a successful screen outing?

osh

quickbeam wrote: »

Completely off topic, but I just Googled the highest net worth authors and according to this, Elisabeth Badinter is the richest. And I've never even heard of her!

Me neither. Would have thought Rowling for sure

osh

quickbeam wrote: »

Have his works been adapted for a successful screen outing?

15. No, not yet anyway.

quickbeam

Cool, that rules out a few, including Martin.

Wonder if we narrowed it down between Fantasy and Sci-Fi if it'd help?

Ectoplasm

quickbeam wrote: »

Cool, that rules out a few, including Martin.

Wonder if we narrowed it down between Fantasy and Sci-Fi if it'd help?

I'd have been thinking Martin too but then no adaptation made me think Dean Koontz until I recalled that at least one of his have been adapted into a movie.

Sci-fi vs fantasy is probably the way to go.

sKeith

Not a guess.
have we narrowed down surnames yet, have we ruled out terry brooks?

quickbeam

Terry Brooks is a great guess. No, we've not narrowed him down.

Everyone else I could think if was *just* under 65, annoyingly so. Or dead. Or British.

munster87

When you mentioned Terry, Terry Goodkind came to mind too

munster87

munster87 wrote: »

When you mentioned Terry, Terry Goodkind came to mind too

I see he wrote legend of the seeker that was made into a tv series

munster87

And seems same goes for Brooks with the shannara chronicles

sKeith

The Shannara Chronicles are a terry brooks adaption, so rules him out.

what about raymond e feist, i'll look for adations by him.

Not made yet, Riftwar tv series. Note: Because this project is categorized as in development, the data is only available on IMDbPro and is subject to change.

Kolido

I know didly squat about authors. Are there any awards you could ask about?

quickbeam

Yeah, was thinking about awards too, but I'm not sure what the "Oscars" of the genre are. I've Googled several different awards for fantasy and sci-fi, but I don't know which is the one to be asking about. Maybe some others know better.