- Yer Man Tolkien - Everything.
- Gene Wolfe - Mostly The Wizard Knight, and of course The Book of the New Sun.
- M. John Harrison - The Viriconium series.
- China Mieville - The Scar and Iron Council.
- Steve Jackson (UK) and Ian Livingstone - All of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, especially The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The Citadel of Chaos and The Crypt of the Sorcerer.
- Steve Jackson (UK) - The Sorcery! series.
- Tony Diterlizzi - His art.
- John Howe - His art too. (Not literary influences, you say? Shut up.)
- Brother's Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales.
- Egil's Saga.
- Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows.
- Rudyard Kipling - The Man Who Would Be King (and the film).
- Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt.
- Bernard Cornwell - Everything.
- John Grant (and Joe Dever) - The Legends of Lone Wolf novels.
Monday 11 May 2009
Appendix N
This week has been ridiculously busy and I've been drinking all day, so in lieu of purposeful content, a meme - namely Zach's "What's Your Appendix N?" idea.
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ReplyDeleteNice stuff.
I had a think about my own Appendix N. but decided that very few of my scenarios and campaigns were directly influenced by novels and short stories. I could list lots of books that I'd enjoyed but decided I wasn't influenced enough to do my own blog post about it.
ReplyDeleteI did have the FF and Lone Wolf books on there like you though, in fact all the influences in print that I decided were influences were all in gamebooks or RPG sourcebooks.
WV - melonsup. Ohhh, matron!
That's pretty close to how my own list would turn out. The only ones that wouldn't appear on mine I haven't read, so there's a good chance they would otherwise!
ReplyDeleteOooh, we can have art on our lists?
ReplyDeleteAnd Mr Toad *is* one of the great comic anti-heroes.
wv: redit - fitting, n'est-ce pas?
Mine is somewhat further ranging, and can be found here:
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wv: undan - goblin hero who led a slave revolt out of Tereth Areth and into the goblin realm of Gundan, named in his honour
(Funny how these spur-of-the-moment inventions fit seamlessly into a campaign world over 20 years old...)
Timeshadows: Thanks.
ReplyDeleteCoopdevil: FF and Lone Wolf were a huge influence on British fantasy I think. Much bigger than people realise.
Kelvin: Get reading then! ;)
Chris: Of course we can have art - I say so.
Mothman's: That's a list and a half. What's Wormy?
Wormy is a comic strip in the back of early Dragon Magazines. The title character is a cigar-chomping dragon who plays wargames on a gaming table with live goblins/trolls/etc as playing pieces, in a world full of game-playing monsters where humans are a myth. 'Monsters are people too' with a twist or two. Some of the most notorious and well-loved NPCs of my early campaigns were inspired by Wormy. Like Mephisto Scarlet, the pseudodragon accountant/tavern-keeper.
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