Funnily nog, jag läste Stjärnorna min destination nyligen och kunde inte skaka föreställningen att det var som en prototyp för Expansionen . Visst nog verkar det som att jag har rätt:
“An aunt of mine bought me an anthology of science fiction stories from a garage sale, and it had a bunch of stories, including The Stars My Destination.” Franck was just a kid at the time—10 or 11, and he picked up and re-read the anthology many times throughout his childhood. The book was A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume Two, edited by Anthony Boucher, originally released in 1959, and just one of many genre anthologies published at the time. Among its contents were stories from Poul Anderson, Judith Merril, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, and Bester’s novel. “I don’t remember any of the other stories in there, and I read that book a dozen times. The only story that sticks out in my mind is The Stars My Destination.”
Ty Franck påverkades också av Orson Scott Card, som publicerade några av hans tidiga jobb.
Daniel Abraham, däremot, påverkades av Clarke och Niven:
“The first book I specifically remember was The Other Side of the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke, and I remember exactly where I was when I first read ‘9 Billion Names of God.’ That was an amazing experience, and I read a whole bunch of Arthur Clarke and Larry Niven, [and] everything else I could get my hands on. I liked it all.”
Han var också influerad av George R. Martin, som han samarbetade med på hans tidiga verk.
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