Their motto is simple: "We dive so humanity survives." They must contend with fierce electrical storms, intense radiation and mutant monsters prowling crumbling city ruins. Their survival, and the survival of all mankind, depends on the service of a few dozen Hell Divers-brave men and women who jump thousands of feet to the planet's surface to collect the ancient components needed to keep the airships afloat. These ships have been in operation for hundreds of years beyond their originally intended lifespans. A fleet of ships once hundreds strong is now reduced to two: the Hive and the Ares, each carrying half of all remaining humans-scarcely over 1,000 souls total. More than two centuries after a catastrophic world war rendered the Earth uninhabitable, the scant remnants of humanity circle the skies in the same mammoth airships used to bomb civilization into oblivion. We are thrilled to introduce this classic to a broader, modern audience." - Marilyn Dahl, editor, Shelf Awareness for Readers Carol's updated version keeps the heart and arc of the wonderful redemptive storyline, while tightening and rewriting existing scenes for today's reader, and we're also able to engage them with exciting visuals from the new film. Karen Watson, associate publisher at Tyndale, also commented on Wallace's rewrite: "Carol's skillful reworking and updating of the novel put it into perfect sync with Tyndale's mission for making spiritual truth broadly accessible to the average reader, who would not likely engage with the 200,000-word original novel. To be honest, I kept pretending I was Lee Child-I love his swift, compelling way of telling a story." And I spent more time on the point of view of the female characters, who were not really central in the original version. "One big change was that I made the chapters very short, and made the dialogue more contemporary. And there's a great deal of story still to come after the chariot race, which has to be exciting enough to keep readers going after what they expect-from the filmed versions-to be the end of the story.
The biggest challenge was probably writing the chariot race scene: it's only 11 pages in the original, but I wanted to stretch it out, since this is what everyone remembers. "Writing the new version of Ben-Hur was great fun, because Lew Wallace had already done the heavy lifting: the research, the wonderful plot, building characters that readers care about.
We asked her about modernizing the novel. Carol, who holds degrees from Princeton University and Columbia University, has written more than 20 books and has just updated Ben-Hur (Tyndale House, $15.99 paperback) as the official tie-in for the remake of the classic film, out August 19 here's the trailer for this thrilling movie. Carol Wallace is the great-great granddaughter of Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, first published in 1880.
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