[projectaon] Re: Freeway Warrior Wikipedia Entries
- From: Iain Smith <iainsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:27:08 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, I was intending to add extra information about the alternate titles to the
individual book pages. Heck, maybe I'll even add a "Slaughter Mountain" entry
if I get
time :)
--- Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Iain Smith wrote:
> > I was browsing Wikipedia today and noticed that there was little Freeway
> > Warrior info
> on
> > there. I took it upon myself to expand the series stub and add future
> > links to
> entries
> > for the four individual books (which hopefully I'll get a chance to
> > implement soon).
> >
> > I hope it's to everyone's liking, I'll probably try to refine the entry
> > when I get
> ideas
> > and time.
>
> You might also want to point out that the alternate title for Highway
> Holocaust
> in the US was "Freeway Warrior 1" (as reported in LWC Newsletter #14 in the
> spring of 1989), and the reason the US renamed it and Book 2 to "Mountain
> Run"
> was that the publishers considered the title too violent, despite the fact
> that
> Slaughter Mountain is a real location in the States.
>
> Just a couple of thoughts.
>
> --
> Simon Osborne
>
>
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