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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 4864009" data-attributes="member: 11697">I'm feeling like the middle-kid here. I don't feel any connection to the old school material of 1e, and not much to a majority of its fantasy literature influences (never read Moorcock, Leiber, or any of Howard's Conan work). Yet at the same time I'm just barely removed from the 25 and under range and some of the influences often mentioned there.I read Tolkein in highschool, but prior to that I'd devoured Lloyd Alexander's work in middle school in the space of a week. I read Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of Space' when I was 9 (which might explain some things), and then rediscovered his work during highschool (didn't know his name when I read that story and had horrible horrible nightmares for weeks of crumbling things in the attic). I've come to seriously adore HPL, and even more so, the work of Clark Ashton Smith, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, and a few others that Lovecraft himself was more enamoured with. There's a very strong strain of horror and weird fiction in my literary likes and influences.Like a few others have mentioned here, I read Enders Game as a highschool sophomore and thought it was an incredible book (and he spoke at my highschool one year removed from when I graduated and got some assistant under secretary of transport or something).More recently I've been reading China Mieville (just finished The City & The City; and just today noticed that he's going to be working on a Paizo supplement...), F. Paul Wilson, Steven King, and Jack McDevitt. A whole hell of a lot of horror and strange mixed into my fantasy. Very little conventional tolkein'ish fantasy except for the occasional D&D novel (which outside of two specific authors I've stopped reading).As far as video game influences: everything from classic NES Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, then the Breath of Fire games, and yes Disgaea. I <3 that last one.</blockquote>

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