• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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    9 months ago

    Sir Terry Pratchett said, regarding fantasy:

    “J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”

    I think pretty much the same can be said for Herbert (and before him Asimov) when it comes to science-fiction…

    (Reading the article, though, it seems Herbert might have been a bit more of an arse about other authors being influenced by him than Tolkien or Asimov ever were…)