Brust is not the source of pseudodragons. They were in the first AD&D Player's Handbook as familiars, not to mention the Monster Manual, and clearly predates the Jhereg novels. Jhereg and the rest always struck me VERY hard as being a D&D adventure REALLY EXCELLENTLY translated into novel form. I *like* it.
Checking, I thought that was well documented... Drat, you're right, there's a time order problem The original dates on Jhereg are only 1983. Fire Lizards are 1976, McCaffrey wins on the first fall. Now I'll have to go looking, because I'm pretty certain I know that psuedodragons aren't just based on Fire Lizards.
Amber, Dying Earth - D'oh. Yes, you're right, and that is well documented (Arneson fessed up to it in public).
PC Hodgell - God Stalk is copyright '82, Thieves World begins in '78, but the first Kencyr story was written and sold at Clarion '77. She cites Lieber as a primary influence, and she and Asprin/Abbey are clearly contemporaneous.
Deryni - No, the original Camber of Culdi books are copyright '76 and '78, when we were still playing with booklets from a white box. Although since the AD&D Player's Handbook was first available in '78, and all of the rest of the Deryni books are after that, I can understand the confusion.
I have read Norton, but only her SF. I also left off Tanith Lee for essentially the same reason.
Lin Carter and Leigh Brackett - Oh, very definitely. Although I'm really tempted to give Lin Carter more ink as a fantasy editor than as a fantasy author. I just couldn't find anything really accessible by Carter on my bookshelf (half of my library is in storage, and another eighth is out print, therefore challenging to recommend), and the only Leigh Brackett I have is SF (I think). If you only had to pick one or two Lin Carter, which would you pick?
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Date: 2005-12-13 05:40 pm (UTC)Checking, I thought that was well documented... Drat, you're right, there's a time order problem The original dates on Jhereg are only 1983. Fire Lizards are 1976, McCaffrey wins on the first fall. Now I'll have to go looking, because I'm pretty certain I know that psuedodragons aren't just based on Fire Lizards.
Amber, Dying Earth - D'oh. Yes, you're right, and that is well documented (Arneson fessed up to it in public).
PC Hodgell - God Stalk is copyright '82, Thieves World begins in '78, but the first Kencyr story was written and sold at Clarion '77. She cites Lieber as a primary influence, and she and Asprin/Abbey are clearly contemporaneous.
Deryni - No, the original Camber of Culdi books are copyright '76 and '78, when we were still playing with booklets from a white box. Although since the AD&D Player's Handbook was first available in '78, and all of the rest of the Deryni books are after that, I can understand the confusion.
I have read Norton, but only her SF.
I also left off Tanith Lee for essentially the same reason.
Lin Carter and Leigh Brackett - Oh, very definitely. Although I'm really tempted to give Lin Carter more ink as a fantasy editor than as a fantasy author. I just couldn't find anything really accessible by Carter on my bookshelf (half of my library is in storage, and another eighth is out print, therefore challenging to recommend), and the only Leigh Brackett I have is SF (I think).
If you only had to pick one or two Lin Carter, which would you pick?