The Big Peat
Darth Buddha
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Kinda stole the idea for this from a thread Brian did ages ago in the Gemmell forum and Gemmell's fairly tight focus on character archetypes and it made me wonder - which authors have really good ranges in terms of the characters they portray? And which ones have very narrow ones?
I always thought Eddings has an incredibly narrow range in terms of voice and most of his characters are principled rogues with an urbane sense of humour, so I'd nominate him for the latter.
For the former - I think that under the humour Pratchett can convince from a number of different PoVs. And Katherine Kerr shows a big range in the Deverry cycle. But for me - Guy Gavriel Kay doesn't really change tone, but he does seem to get how to depict a lot of very different archetypes and people in a lot of different situations.
I always thought Eddings has an incredibly narrow range in terms of voice and most of his characters are principled rogues with an urbane sense of humour, so I'd nominate him for the latter.
For the former - I think that under the humour Pratchett can convince from a number of different PoVs. And Katherine Kerr shows a big range in the Deverry cycle. But for me - Guy Gavriel Kay doesn't really change tone, but he does seem to get how to depict a lot of very different archetypes and people in a lot of different situations.