Being somewhat trained in science I'm used to things I read having more than one author and to try to interpret who did what from how the names are listed on the paper
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I dunno about your question, but I do recall reading the Martin Beck novels a quarter century ago and liking them very much. The tv films haven't made it here, or if they have I haven't seen them.
They're - the novels - very good, nowadays in part because how they describe a city which no longer exists physically, but I definitely think they hold up. Being a bit of an Ed McBain fan (well, at least his early-middle work) I guess it isn't that strange, Sjöwall/Wahlöö did translate McBain books to Swedish and they're clearly inspired by him.
There's one movie with Martin Landau from the 70's as Beck, and the best one is Widerberg's "Mannen på taket". Should be available with subtitles, Widerberg was a fairly famous Swedish director and nomineed for an Academy Award just before he died.
The TV films are pretty dull, I think. (Some did have movie premiere here.) Swedish-German (Swedish novels, especially crime, is huge in Germany), a few of the first ones were based on the books, the rest just use the characters. I think there are well over thirty TV films. The latest and longest series is simply called "Beck", just as the competing ones are "Van Veeteren" and "Wallander", all named after the protagonist.
How do you classify books written by two authors and published under one pseudonym?
I think there's a huge difference between * books written by Big Name Author & beginning author, or books written by author continuing the universe of Dead or Senescent Big Name Author
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* books written by two authors of about the same generation / popularity who simply wanted to try a collaboration.
How do you classify books written by two authors and published under one pseudonym?
I was just about to mention one notable case from outside SF (although inside a different genre ghetto): Ellery Queen, a very popular name in detective fiction for many years, and a joint pseudonym for Frederick Dannay and Manfred Lee. (Wikipedia suggests that, in general, Dannay plotted and Lee wrote, but admits that that's probably too simplistic.)
Ditto Manning Coles, for another mystery-writing team from the same era.
The most obvious example of Good SF written by two authors is the books by Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth: The Space Merchants, Gladiator-At-Law, etc. Definitely classics.
Q1: I don't know. But I'd guess that if they are published under pseudonym you wouldn't sort of fear that one author is doing the work and the other supplying a sellable name (to be exceedingly crude and unfair).
I'd say that collaborations of the kind you describe probably can be good, but how common is that compared to version one, Big & Smaller Name? (That's not a rhetorical question)
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There's one movie with Martin Landau from the 70's as Beck, and the best one is Widerberg's "Mannen på taket". Should be available with subtitles, Widerberg was a fairly famous Swedish director and nomineed for an Academy Award just before he died.
The TV films are pretty dull, I think. (Some did have movie premiere here.) Swedish-German (Swedish novels, especially crime, is huge in Germany), a few of the first ones were based on the books, the rest just use the characters. I think there are well over thirty TV films. The latest and longest series is simply called "Beck", just as the competing ones are "Van Veeteren" and "Wallander", all named after the protagonist.
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I think there's a huge difference between
* books written by Big Name Author & beginning author, or books written by author continuing the universe of Dead or Senescent Big Name Author
and
* books written by two authors of about the same generation / popularity who simply wanted to try a collaboration.
Some of the latter books can be excellent.
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I was just about to mention one notable case from outside SF (although inside a different genre ghetto): Ellery Queen, a very popular name in detective fiction for many years, and a joint pseudonym for Frederick Dannay and Manfred Lee. (Wikipedia suggests that, in general, Dannay plotted and Lee wrote, but admits that that's probably too simplistic.)
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The most obvious example of Good SF written by two authors is the books by Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth: The Space Merchants, Gladiator-At-Law, etc. Definitely classics.
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I'd say that collaborations of the kind you describe probably can be good, but how common is that compared to version one, Big & Smaller Name? (That's not a rhetorical question)
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