Fictional Fans

Lord of the Rings. My recurring obsessions with light imagery, star imagery, poetry, and eucatastrophe are all connected to LOTR.

Kipling and Renault's works (even if they would have hated each other, heh) instilled my taste for historical fiction and other fiction where the different setting and the different thought patterns of a different time are well described.

Heinlein above all in science fiction (much to my embarrassment sometimes, because sometimes his hormones really took ovr his writing). The way he wrote about relationships, and included sex and reproduction in his works, really resonated with young me(as did his flailing attempts at multiculturalism). I'm lucky that the first of his books I read is still my favorite, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress