Comments on: Checkwolf – Book 4: Failure Not Tolerated

By: Remy Gibson

Remy Gibson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:44:38 +0000

Thanks for the interest, Joe. My real job is as a letter carrier, and unfortunately the harsh winter has left me very little time to pursue personal projects (such as this one). It looks like it may be a few weeks yet before the “new” book 1 will be released. Of course, anybody that wants to receive notification when that happens can send me an email: remy@checkwolf.com.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:32:01 +0000

so is the ‘revamped’ book 1 up on podiobooks or is that the old one still? (been awhile since i listened to book 1…)

By: genevere

genevere — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:55:13 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed the three books. I listened to the first on a whim – glad I did. The writing is great, the characters are interesting and the plots are engaging. The last two episodes discussing many background details were most enlightening – certainly got me considering listening to the books again to see the bits I’d not picked up. Thank you.

By: Remy Gibson

Remy Gibson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:48:42 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Joe.

A lot of the differences in the Checkwolf universe have been detailed in the appendices to Book 2. Appendix 1, for example, goes into the formation of Kewanee, a city of seven million located in an area of the country where there is most certainly NOT such a city in the real world. Many of the differences between our world and Checkwolf surround the fact that there is another megacity in the country.

Appendix 4 of Book 2 discusses why vigilantes are somewhat socially acceptable, as well as why there are certain characters that have … abilities beyond the normal (this is also discussed in the postscript to Book 4).

#31, “Descent” (from Book 3) touches on the “west coast disaster” you mentioned. I don’t intend for this to sound insensitive in light of what has happened in Haiti recently, but in the Checkwolf universe, such a “Big One” occurred in California in 1994, which pretty much demolished that part of the country.

Kewanee, vigilantes (or “vijes”), and aliens … Yup, those are the big differences.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:13:20 +0000

could you go into a little bit of detail about the major differences between the checkwolf universe and ours? (west coast distaster)

additionally my fiance has family in the Peoria area.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:59:37 +0000

i really enjoyed the whole series. glad to see you are going to re-write some of the earlier stuff. It wasn’t bad, but from later installments you can tell it could have been a lot better. Your postscript was actually pretty funny.

By: jackdandy

jackdandy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:49:34 +0000

I’m looking forward to this one. Book 3 kicked butt and shook things up. I’m looking forward to their taking on the Master, I think it’s been building up to this since Book 1, or was it Book 2? I don’t remember when the Masteer was first mentioned. But if everything “Future Clayton” said about the Master’s plans are true, it sounds like Checkwolf is in for the fight of their lives! I can’t wait!