I was just making a comment because all of your comparisons have something to do with America vs. UK or some iteration of the UK vs. the world. It gets old. Now if you compared writing styles of say Eric Nylund specifically to Karen Traviss, or a multitude of authors, it would be different. Making the generalization Americans vs. Brits is just getting old.
It was a generalisation as i said. Eric Nylund really does just drone on and on. There are some deviations from this pattern (John Steinbeck is rather prominent). But its just the way it is. I was just trying to suggest a reason as to why most european halo fans didn't like the books by american authors, as much as they did in the K5 series, and why it was visa versa. Karen traviss got a lot of shit from the american community for apparently destroying the star wars novels because you Americans thought that mandolorians were based on spartans rather than an old scottish tribe, and because it was the first star wars reference where gay people were ever mentioned, and who would have guessed it? it was the mandolroians to be the first gay characters in the whole universe. I mean American generalisation says that the 300 royal guard of the Spartans were the best soldiers of ancient greece, whereas in reality it was the Sacred band of thebes (coincidentally also 300 strong), a unit made entirely out of gay men.
She also got a lot of stick for killing dom in GoW 3, Also something that gets blamed on european writers. Its a war for survival for crying out loud. If they don't want their favorite character in a game to die, then perhaps they shouldn't be playing a game where death is involved.
I really don't have anything against you Americans, just bad experiences . I talk about this sort of stuff on here, over the internet, because i really only know people who live on continent or in the commonwealth, its also good to get a brutally honest outside opinion, (us brits really do enjoy a good debate, We're fighters you see?) than to get a :"yeh i agree with that, that and that"(look at the thread that i did on society).
I'm actually fascinated by the US. On a society level you really are quite alien, which peaks my curiosity, I plan (i actually have some rough notes and ideas) to write something on the differences. You also give good insights as to what we were like in old imperial times, when the US has to step down as a superpower (All empires fall away) it would be interesting to see what happens to your society, and how it deals with it. Will it go down clawing and hanging on to its power? Or just sort of give up? or perhaps something else?