Do the LaNague books have any connection back to the rest of his fiction/the AC?
I wasn’t sure about this, so I asked FPW. Here is his answer: “A verrrrrrry tenuous connection. Gurney from “Lipidleggin’ ” is a distant ancestor of Peter LaNague (alluded to in AEOTS). Gurney is also Jack’s uncle on his mother’s side. I’d planned to mention this in HOSTS but I think I forgot. (I’ll work it in somewhere in the future, maybe have Jack’s father say, “You’re as stubborn as your damn Uncle Gurney!” or something like that.)” And Aphew, our well-versed FPW scholar, adds: “F. Paul has never stated where “Masque” sits in the LaNague universe, but its pretty obvious that it is out there somewhere. Yoshio (in “Legacies”) works for the Kaze group. In “Masque” the organization seems to still exist, in a very big way (Kaze Glom).” Thanks, Aphew and F. Paul! 9. What about the Jack movie? The Repairman Jack movie, with a script apparently based on THE TOMB, has been languishing in “development hell” (as FPW is wont to say) for a few years now. The rights to the film are currently own
