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Old 30th November 2006, 04:04 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Re: first book

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Originally Posted by Werthead View Post
I find Martin and Erikson complement each other very well. Erikson has tremendous breadth in the sheer number of factions, gods, nations, continents and characters he creates but Martin has far deeper characters, history and worldbuilding. Erikson is very high-magic, lots of explosions and w00t! moments, whilst Martin is low-magic, much more intense and character-based. If they ever got together to do a project (highly unlikely) it would be pretty special.
I thought the same, however, ICE had a go at Martin's at ASOIAF in a recent interview. Which I thought was a bit rich coming from an author who has only had one book published.
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