There are several writers that I mention more than is probably healthy. James P Blaylock and Tim Powers, as mentors of mine, get a lot of publicity (if you can call it that…you can’t) around the ol’ NR. Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and Douglas Adams, as my personal holy trinity, probably come up more than they should. All five of those writers are of the fantasy/sci-fi bent, but astute readers will also have noticed that I have a fondness for John Fowles as well. For lack of a better term, one might consider Fowles a more “literary” writer than the others…if you put any stock in terms like that which, all things being equal, you shouldn’t.

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