The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe

Rob Thornton · 05 Jun 2007, 15:42 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: oblate777 at speakeasy.net (Rob Thornton)
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:42:18 +0000
Subject: (urth) The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe
Message-ID: <W578521397744521181058138@webmail2>


Funny that Vance and D&D are mentioned in the same post. I have heard that Vance is one of the influences on the wizard spells from the original AD&D and I believe them. 

The Prismatic Sphere and the Prismatic Spray are good examples, and I think another 9th level spell is actually taken from him -- can't remember the AD&D name but Vance called it the spell of Forlorn Encystment or something like that.

rob t.


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> Greetings:
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> "One observation....  I've heard that Tolkien's work was a large inspiration for the Dungeon and
> Dragons tabletop games."
> 
> There were a lot of things that inspired D&D. Vance is one, Tolkien is another. So is Leiber,
> (Lin) Carter, (Edgar Rice) Burroughs and more. Even H.P. Lovecraft. His creations such as Cthulhu
> and others showed up at one point, until TSR got a "cease and desist" order. Either Tolkien or his
> estate did the same thing, so "hobbits" in early editions became "halflings" in later editions,
> even though we all knew what they were...
> 
> FPK3
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