Having started Fool Moon, I am totally okay with that!
That's good. Not to get all spoilery, but some of the werewolves in that book will still be around 13 books later.
I think that when a particular author is singled out in this manner, it's ... because the author in question has managed to combine them and use them in an interesting way that strikes a particular chord with readers and other writers.
I think to a certain extent it is how the particular author struck a chord, but I believe it is also a matter of how a given genre progressed to a sort of critical mass. Lots of people think of Tolkien or Stoker as having invented the genres they are associated with not because of how those authors have struck a chord with them, but simply because those authors were the first authors they were exposed to from those genres. I've seen people who's first exposure to vampires was Twilight dismiss older vampire stories as either more recent knock offs or older inferior versions. People's knowledge of and perspective on genres vary.
I think that you'll like him a lot.
Thanks. I'll go add him to my wish list at the Science Fiction Book Club. I have at least noticed they do have an edition of that book for sale over there. ;)
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That's good. Not to get all spoilery, but some of the werewolves in that book will still be around 13 books later.
I think that when a particular author is singled out in this manner, it's ... because the author in question has managed to combine them and use them in an interesting way that strikes a particular chord with readers and other writers.
I think to a certain extent it is how the particular author struck a chord, but I believe it is also a matter of how a given genre progressed to a sort of critical mass. Lots of people think of Tolkien or Stoker as having invented the genres they are associated with not because of how those authors have struck a chord with them, but simply because those authors were the first authors they were exposed to from those genres. I've seen people who's first exposure to vampires was Twilight dismiss older vampire stories as either more recent knock offs or older inferior versions. People's knowledge of and perspective on genres vary.
I think that you'll like him a lot.
Thanks. I'll go add him to my wish list at the Science Fiction Book Club. I have at least noticed they do have an edition of that book for sale over there. ;)