Dennis Higbee writes:
>As far as Martin v. Jordan goes, I'm not sure what you mean by "tinker
>with the formula." Jordan's not formulaic. Someone like Feist is
>formulaic; he tells the same story over and over.
Is he? I'm annoyed by Feist because he's a mediocre writer, because
he stole (through a third party, but who cares?) outrageously from
M. A. Barker (and never admitted it), and because cutting Magician
where they did for the paperback edition was a crime against humanity,
but I wouldn't say that, say, Magician was particularly similar to
Mistress of the Empire, or that either was similar in any way to
Faerie Tale.
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