{"id":8190,"date":"2022-04-04T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/greg-buchanan-on-writing-no-mans-sky-the-dark-souls-ttrpg-and-sixteen-horses\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:49:28","slug":"greg-buchanan-on-writing-no-mans-sky-the-dark-souls-ttrpg-and-sixteen-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/greg-buchanan-on-writing-no-mans-sky-the-dark-souls-ttrpg-and-sixteen-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Buchanan on writing No Man&#8217;s Sky, the Dark Souls TTRPG and Sixteen Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s all going on for Greg Buchanan. His still-warm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/sixteen-horses\/greg-buchanan\/2928377080563\" type=\"ext\">thriller novel Sixteen Horses<\/a> looks destined to become one of the books of the year, having filled window displays at Waterstones stores around the UK for the paperback launch in February. I&#8217;ve read it and it&#8217;s brilliant: dark, disturbing, fearsomely intelligent and utterly compelling. I couldn&#8217;t put it down.\n<\/p>\n<p>Such is the popularity of the book that it&#8217;s going to be adapted for TV! <i>And<\/i> there&#8217;s going to be a follow-up book called Consumed, which Buchanan is writing right now, <i>and<\/i> there&#8217;s a deal for a third, unrelated book that he&#8217;s also writing right now, as a kind of creative break from Consumed. We talk about both new projects in the podcast.\n<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all Buchanan has got going on. He recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregbuchanan\/status\/1503407254627889163\" type=\"ext\">he will be writing for the new Dark Souls tabletop RPG<\/a>. It&#8217;s &#8211; as I find out &#8211; one of his favourite series of games, and he has a lot of interesting things to say about it and about his current obsession, Elden Ring.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/podcast-greg-buchanan-sixteen-horses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all going on for Greg Buchanan. His still-warm thriller novel Sixteen Horses looks destined to become one of the books of the year, having filled window displays at Waterstones stores around the UK for the paperback launch in February. 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