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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4862482" data-attributes="member: 80487">For my part, I credit D&amp;D with turning me on to genre fantasy. Before I encountered the game, I was immersed in science fiction. Apart from classic tales of myth and legend, the realm of swordsmen and sorcery was something I generally passed over (with a bit of prejudice) on the bookshelves.I had read The Hobbit, and the Chronicles of Narnia (which my grandparents sent for the sake of religious allegory, and were more appreciated than later offerings of George MacDonald's Highland romances). With the blithe precociousness of a literary omnivore, I had even dipped (quite ignorant of the scandal once attached to it) into Cabell's Jurgen.Not everything published in the &quot;Frodo Lives!&quot; fantasy craze, and the (partly) D&amp;D-fueled explosion afterward, lived down to the garish covers -- but enough did to steer me quite firmly for a while back to rocketships and ray guns. At least a &quot;proper&quot; SF novel was still not so likely to turn out to be pornography of some stripe (simply boring before a certain age) as something involving &quot;mighty thews&quot;. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 4862482, member: 80487"] For my part, I credit D&D with turning me on to genre fantasy. Before I encountered the game, I was immersed in science fiction. Apart from classic tales of myth and legend, the realm of swordsmen and sorcery was something I generally passed over (with a bit of prejudice) on the bookshelves. I had read [I]The Hobbit[/I], and the Chronicles of Narnia (which my grandparents sent for the sake of religious allegory, and were more appreciated than later offerings of George MacDonald's Highland romances). With the blithe precociousness of a literary omnivore, I had even dipped (quite ignorant of the scandal once attached to it) into Cabell's [I]Jurgen[/I]. Not everything published in the "Frodo Lives!" fantasy craze, and the (partly) D&D-fueled explosion afterward, lived down to the garish covers -- but enough did to steer me quite firmly for a while back to rocketships and ray guns. At least a "proper" SF novel was still not so likely to turn out to be pornography of some stripe (simply boring before a certain age) as something involving "mighty thews". ;) [/QUOTE]

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