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Fantasy Literature

Big_Mike

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7. A friend of mine was an employee of Del Rey books in the mid-80s

Reply to ChazInAz (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 24, 2015, 03:13 AM

Feb 2015

At that time, Norman was the hottest selling author in the shop.

I'll admit I read the first 4 or 5 books starting in '78 or so. His world building was strong, but I got tired of some of the recurring issues. However, he did get a metric butt-load of books printed.

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