Egophantasy and the Shadow of the Shadow

"My generation of epic phantsy writers were reacting kind of against the tolkinesk, right? You see a lot fewer elves and things in my era," he says. "There's no one like that in western europe or us." The only way to not be influenced by it would be to never have read a phantasy book,. Never have participated in the culture that was spawned by phantasy becoming a major, basselling part of the industry.