[Dragaera] _Taltos_ and _The Hobbit_

[Alexx Kay]

> At 01:17 PM 8/17/2010, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>> * The magical hiring figure isn't around for most of the major action
>>> sequences.  (Admittedly, this is a standard Campbellian trope.)
>>
>>Who's Campbell?
>
> John W. Campbell (1910-1971), longtime editor of Astounding Science
> Fiction/Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact, from 1937 to his death, who
> possibly was the single greatest influence on the genre.  I think a group
> of his rules for writing are around, although I can't find them right now.
>  He was, admittedly, highly opinionated, and eventually managed to
> alienate a large number of his authors, including Heinlein and Asimov.

I was thinking Joseph Campbell, not John :-)

Alexx

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