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<blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 5904317" data-attributes="member: 18017">Michael Mornard <a href="http://muleabides.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/the-seven-geases/" target="_blank">confirmed that Gary was a big fan of at least one Clark Ashton Smith story</a>, The Seven Geases, from which he took the spell. Tom Moldvay, who wrote X2, added CAS to his reading list for the original &quot;Red Box&quot; Basic.Other books Gary might have included:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pratchett, Terry: Discworld series. (Gary named this as one he would add if he did Appendix N today in a thread here at EN World).</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cook, Hugh: Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. (He contributed a very positive blurb to the back cover of one of the American editions; I concur that the series is fantastic.)</li>
</ul>Other authors I would add to the list:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hughart, Barry: Bridge of Birds et al.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Chandler, David: Ancient Blades trilogy. (David is one of the players in the New York Red Box group, which made me hesitate to read these in case I had to pretend to like them; fortunately my admiration is genuine.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Baker, Kage: The Anvil of the World and its sequels.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Swanwick, Michael: The Iron Dragon's Daughter, The Dragons of Babylon.</li>
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[QUOTE="Tav_Behemoth, post: 5904317, member: 18017"] Michael Mornard [url=http://muleabides.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/the-seven-geases/]confirmed that Gary was a big fan of at least one Clark Ashton Smith story[/url], The Seven Geases, from which he took the spell. Tom Moldvay, who wrote X2, added CAS to his reading list for the original "Red Box" Basic. Other books Gary might have included: [LIST] [*]Pratchett, Terry: Discworld series. (Gary named this as one he would add if he did Appendix N today in a thread here at EN World). [*]Cook, Hugh: Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. (He contributed a very positive blurb to the back cover of one of the American editions; I concur that the series is fantastic.) [/LIST] Other authors I would add to the list: [LIST] [*]Hughart, Barry: Bridge of Birds et al. [*]Chandler, David: Ancient Blades trilogy. (David is one of the players in the New York Red Box group, which made me hesitate to read these in case I had to pretend to like them; fortunately my admiration is genuine.) [*]Baker, Kage: The Anvil of the World and its sequels. [*]Swanwick, Michael: The Iron Dragon's Daughter, The Dragons of Babylon. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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