A song of Ice and Fire
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gulyasandras #709 Érdekesség:
Joe Abercrombie
July 4, 2013 • 3:53 pm
Self Important Duck,
There are loads of important writers of dark fantasy both before Tolkien and since, but none of them have had anything like the commercial penetration or widespread influence Martin’s had.
Nothing like. The TV series has brought him to a much wider audience, and redefined the way fantasy is seen to a degree, but he was a no. 1 NYT bestseller long before that. No disrespect at all to Erikson, he’s a very successful and respected writer, and he came along a few years after Game of Thrones so he’s had less time to make that impact, but I don’t see writers citing him as an influence to anything like the same degree. His sales were a fraction of Martin’s even before the series, but there’s no shame in that, everyone’s were, except Robert Jordan, maybe Brooks, Goodkind, a couple of other highly commercial writers.
After the series? Over the past few months Martin’s sales have accounted for a third of the ENTIRE SF&F GENRE in the UK. That’s how big he is now.