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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CountPopeula" data-source="post: 4299996" data-attributes="member: 27250">I think (as someone born in the last year considered Generation X) that Leiber, Vance, and Moorcock are going to be remembered a lot like The Clash , The Pixies, or Sonic Youth. They have their fans, people of a certain time and place, but for the most part, they're the names that come up again and again as influences without having a substantial fanbase. They are bound to be historical footnotes, and while attempts will be made to cash in on them to follow trends, they're just not standing the test of time.Tolkien is like The Beatles of fantasy. You may not like him/them, you may have never read his books/listened to their music, but you probably know of him/them.Most people only know of Sonic Youth or the Pixies because Kurt Cobain listed them as his influences, and while Nirvana continues to be relevant, Frank Black, Kim Deal, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordon are never going to be John, Paul, George and Ringo.And this has nothing to do with quality, mind you, just exposure and changing tastes. Kind of like how my dad could never figure out why I liked Pearl Jam and Weezer more than Eric Clapton, even though Clapton is, even in my own opinion, a far better musician.But the bottom line is Michael Moorcock is Thurston Moore and JRR Tolkien is John Lennon. Even if you like Sonic Youth more, and even though Sonic Youth heavily influenced every rock band in the 90's... Sonic Youth will never be the Beatles.Sorry for the very odd comparisons and digression from the videogame topic, I just grew up watching 120 minutes and it warped my fragile little mind.</blockquote>

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