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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1282056" data-attributes="member: 3649">I think first off was the cinema, since as a kid I was fascinated by the classic Disney films (esp. the very sword-and-sorcery-ish Sleeping Beauty, which I saw on the big screen during a re-release period in the mid-60's) and Ray Harryhausen films (Sinbad, esp.). Star Trek was also apparently a big influence. Mom said I was spellbound watching them in original release, but I barely remember it. The big screen was definately more captivating.  I read a tremendous amount when I was a kid; I read everything I could get my hands on. Ray Bradbury was possibly the first fantasy/SF author I ever read, since one of my uncles gave me a boxed set of all his works to that date for Xmas when I was.. maybe 8 or 9. Then when I was 10 or 11, I found both greek myth when our social studies class did an entire half-year on it, and Tolkien when another uncle gave me a boxed gift set of the Trilogy + The Hobbit. I was also reading comics at this time, but I don't really count those in with the fantasy genre, save for the rare sword-and-sorcery books. I did like horror comics a great deal, though, and those more than anything else had  fantasy content. (Ahh, House of Secrets, House of Mystery, etc...). Science Fiction was a big unfluence, once I started to read Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and others. My reading exploded when I hit 13 or so, and I started getting most of the modern fantasy books of the time. Lin Carter's Adult Fantasy Series (and esp. the Flashing Swords series). The Forever War. Larry Niven. Andre Norton. Alan Dean Foster's Commonwealth stories. Not a lot of fantasy was being done, really, not in novel-length. That wouldn't change for a few years yet.  Then when I was 15 or 16, D&D came out and I found that through the SF club I was in.</blockquote>

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