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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4862235" data-attributes="member: 37277">Interestingly, Rechan, I'm 30 and didn't discover any of those authors until the last 5 years or so.  I too grew up reading Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms (although I had read LotR long before either D&D series--4th or 5th grade IIRC).  Moorcock and Leiber, Burroughs and Howard, etc were out of print.I had read the Prydain series and the Dark is Rising sequence by the time I got to high school, but the pulp fiction of the 20's through the 60s were all but impossible to come by.  That said, I've been voraciously devouring those books I find or search out based on recommendations from boards like this or from "commonality" with another author; ie Leiber and Moorcock as inheritors of Howard and Burroughs, Bradbury as inheritor of Verne, etc.  Some of those books are coming back into print (PlanetStories from Paizo has a big hand in that), and some are resurfacing through used book stores in ways I hadn't noticed before.  But perhaps that latter point is just because I've now been actively looking.I'm also kind of working through those classics in chronological order.  Started with Lord Dunsany and have been working my way forward from there.  I'm up to Moorcock and Leiber, mostly by way of trading entities like paperbackswap.com and used book stores (and wikipedia as a reference point for who leads to who and what is similar to which).</blockquote>