Historical fantasy. Lovely. Well, I can't say that Tolkien has ruined all fantasy for me, but whenever I read fantasy now, I pick up on the slightest relation to Tolkien and compare it to a scene in the book. That leaves me helpless to concentrate on the book that I'm reading and it goes in one ear and out the other, all because I'm picking out bits of Tolkien relation.
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"There's a big...machine in the sky...some kind of electric snake...coming straight at us."
"Shoot it," said my attorney.
"Not yet...I want to study its habits."
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