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"I started with Dostoevsky and then, you know, you try to read all the people. Read some of Tolkien's early efforts," he says. "They're not, no, they're no one you level of what they eventually became." The author is friends with George Martin as well as Christine Rushkoff and Dean Wesley Smith. He also has a friend who wrote Game of Thrones: "He should be docked".