Garth Nix: I think I’ve actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. Wired: What kind of an impact has being from Australia had on your fiction and on your writing career? Myers, who joins hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley to discuss their favorite TV cartoons of the 1980s (including He-Man, Transformers and ThunderCats!). Or listen to the interview in Episode 59 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which also features an appearance by young-adult science fiction author E.C. Read our complete interview with Nix below, in which he talks about his many publishing jobs, his involvement in the film business, and the inspiration behind some of his best-loved stories. “So in some ways, as I said to my friend Phil, it’s kind of the most expensive and least useful piece of marketing for a book ever done.” “We have a book, and we have a sort of proof-of-concept, super-cut-down beta version of the game for people to play,” says Nix. The beta is still online at, but seems unlikely at this point to turbocharge book sales. Without further investment, the project fizzled.
“Unfortunately, that was also the time of the global financial crisis, so we basically went to Silicon Valley at a time when everyone was freaking out and money was hard to come by.” “We went to try to get some money to properly develop it and expand the whole thing,” says Nix. He has written articles for gaming magazines such as White Dwarf, Multiverse and Breakout! He and Wallach funded development of their game, Imperial Galaxy, out of their own pockets, and produced a beta version that attracted 30,000 players. “We’d hoped to develop the game to launch at the same time as the book, but of course we haven’t,” says Nix, an old hand at gaming who’s been running Dungeons & Dragons campaigns since he was 11. “I said, ‘Let’s use the background for A Confusion of Princes‘ - this massive galactic empire ruled by millions of princes, and the players can be princes in the game and so on,” says Nix in this week’s episode of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.Ī Confusion of Princes hits shelves May 15, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the tie-in videogame.
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