Steve said: > Hmmm. > > You can think of the Vlad books this way: > A world created in honor of Fritz Leiber > Fantasy tropes created in honor of Michael Moorcock > A narrative style in honor of Dashiel Hammet > A general aesthetic in honor of Roger Zelazny > Which explains why I groove on them so much - though I am not familiar with the works of Hammet, my top ten list of favourite fantasy writes goes - Zelazny, Moorcock (just read his new one - Dreamthief's Daughter - quite good - love the background on Oona) and Leiber (the other 7 are irrelevant to this list). Gonna go check out some Dashiel Hammet now... Sean