Virtual Book Tour, What is the Code? Answers here (maybe)

If my co-conspirator has no objections, I'm willing to field a few questions about the content of the Code. Hopefully, I will find answers that are as cryptic as the mystery that inspired this work.

Sean Ellis
co-author of the Clive Cussler Code

This post has been edited by Nick Kismet on Feb 9 2005, 12:01 AM

How does it end? Do we need to have read all the books to understand it?

Where did you get your ideas? Is it just based on interesting things/patterns you've picked up on from the books?

I'm pretty it sure it ends with a period... Maybe a question mark... no, definitely a period.

You haven't read all the books?!? Good heavens, why not?

Most of the ideas came from reading Clive Cussler books. There may have been some mushrooms involved too...but that's from Tony's contribution.

Seriously though, I like to think of the book as a road map for a scavenger hunt. I hope that it inspires everyone to go back to the first book (Pacific Vortex) and read it with a slightly different perspective. It will make you think about things you've noticed before, and maybe even wondered about, but never placed into a larger context. Some of it is absolutely true; some of it is positively fictional--it quotes extensively from Cussler's novels, which are of course fictitious--and some of it falls into that shadowy inbetween which I suppose could best be described as speculative. Perhaps a better way to express it would be "inspired by real events."

Does it focus only on Dirk Pitt books, or those "other" ones too (Kurt Austin, Oregon files, etc)?

The straight answer is that it does focus primarily on the Pitt novels, but there are certainly elements of what we have termed "the Code" woven into the fabric of Cussler's entire fictional universe. Whether he has deigned to share these revelations with his co-authors remains to be seen.

Hmm, intriguing. The Code may actually create an interest in reading his non-DP fiction that's not really there right now. He should share some royalties with you guys.

Can't wait till my copy is in the mailbox. Lots of new way of looking at things in the books. It will interseting to see how close some of the ideas I've had are to the answers in the code.

Does it have a picture of Tony and Sean on the back with their cars?

you don't want to see a picture of my car

although, I just made an offer on a '73 Jeep CJ 5. If I can get that, and spend a few bucks on paint, it will be a dream come true.

Tony and his family truckster, the Porsche.

Received my copy today and finished it in short order. Very interesting and thought provoking stuff. However, one thing I have noticed on this forum are alot of comments about typo's and editing misses in Dr. Cussler's books and was just wondering if the same editors missed the typos in The Code?