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Embarrassing fact: As a young teen, Piers Anthony’s first Xanth trilogy was what got me really kicked off in the more “swords and magic users” type fantasy. Though I had “gatewayed” before hand, having read L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time, ...
CA It was a gateway drug to sci-fi and fantasy in many ways." Lindelof said he also read a lot of Piers Anthony as a kid and is an expert on "The Wizard of Oz." Cuse, known to be the "Narnia" scholar on the show, notes Flannery O’Connor as his greatest ...
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