Plus, the Internet allows me to collaborate far more easily when I'm working on a multi-person project. Things fly back and forth instantly.
Q: I know the Ender series has been looked at time and again to be made into a movie, but hasn't happened as yet. If you were going to tackle the adaptation of one of your works as a television series, mini-series, or movie (on television or on the big screen), which of your works would you attempt and why?
OSC: Apart from my seemingly lifelong work creating new scripts of Ender's Game and its related storylines, the stories I most want to see adapted as films or other screen work are my romantic comedies: Magic Street, Enchantment, Homebody, Treasure Box. These were written to be movies. They would work brilliantly, if only studio executives were capable of understanding how stories actually work. Instead, they read scripts in terror, unwilling to jump at anything that doesn't sound like every other picture ever made.
Q: How does the game market (computer and console as well as roleplaying games) influence your work as an author?
OSC: Not at all, except when I'm engaged (for hire or as a partner) to write for a videogame or write novels related to a game world. The gaming world imitates what I write, not the other way around. Long before the public had access to the Internet, I wrote about multi-player online games, for instance, and have turned out to be quite right about the way it would work, even if I missed some details (like how graphic and action-oriented the games would be).
Q: I read in a 2007 interview you did with Gaming Today that you were a Civilization 2 addict. I can identify and have had my own Civilization addict through several versions of the game. Have you played anything recently, computer or console game-wise, that you've enjoyed?
OSC: I keep trying to quit. Your question is like asking an addict if he's found any cool new drugs. I try not to.
Q: Lastly, I'm guessing that since you've been hard at work on Lost Gate, you've had little time for pleasure reading. However, I'm wondering who some of your favorite authors are at the moment?
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