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Random thought of the day:

Whoa. I just realized Jean Ewing Ross' Illusion makes about ten times more sense now that I've read the Lymond Chronicles.

Wow. Talk about Dunnett influences.

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Heh. Heh. Heh.

Other notably Dunnett-influenced romance novelists include Jo Beverley and ... damn, I've forgotten. I used to have a list. I suspect Tracy Grant. And if you think Illusion shows it, you should read her final traditional Regency, which is so Lymond-lite.

Emma Bull also has a character who is clearly a Lymond-pastiche in Bone Dance.

I have a post somewhere. I'll dig it up. Tanith Lee's Cyrion, too.

Ooo, would love to read it!

Hrm, I've only read one Jo Beverley, but it wasn't quite to my taste. I'm starting to see Lymond everywhere now. I also just reread Perilous Gard and am dying to know if Pope was influenced by Dunnett as well. I'm even vaguely seeing it in Brust and Bull's Freedom and Necessity -_-;;.

I don't think it's all vague in Freedom & Necessity.

I'm not sure the timing really works for Pope.

Ok, good, so I'm not just seeing Dunnett everywhere I look out of sheer paranoia. Er, not sure if "paranoia" is the right word... new awareness? Heightened sensibilities?

Oh yeah. Now you'll see 'em all over the place--beginning with Guy Kay and Diana Gabaldon, Ellen Kushner, and a raft of others.

They are definitely starting to come out of the woodworks.

I feel as if I've just read Tolkien or something for the first time after having been immersed in the fantasy genre for years.

Mary Doria Russell's Emilio in The Sparrow, too.

I need to read that sometime...

Everybody's Lyyyyy-mond,
In his own wayyyy...
Like an angsty epicene
Or a control freak with dues to pay...

Now you've done it and given me a fit of giggles ;).

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