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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' wasn't the first fantasy novel, but it set up most of the devices of modern fantasy.
** And of what Tolkien didn't start, [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] probably did with ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. Not surprisingly, the authors were friends.
** Terry Brooks was the first
* [[John W. Campbell]], a popular science fiction writer and magazine editor, is generally credited by Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and other science fiction writers as being responsible for nurturing their talents and for bringing higher standard of storytelling to the science fiction genre, which had previously consisted mostly of [[utopia]]n literature, stories of aliens and fantastic gadgets, and [[space Western]]s. Genre historians often date the beginning of science fiction's Golden Age as being 1938, the year Campbell assumed editorship of ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'' magazine.
* ''[[Neuromancer]]'' more or less ''created'' the [[Cyberpunk]] sub-genre of [[Sci Fi]].
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* ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' changed the novel forever. Defoe's realism made it unlike anything which had gone before; his plot was completely original, in an age of reworking classic plots; and his narrator was something new and very interesting.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] went from simple stories of the macabre and ghost stories to [[Cosmic Horror]], which changed the face of the horror genre forever.
* Robert Jordan's ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' brought the end to the era where epic fantasy = trilogy by showing that very long series can be very profitable.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is largely responsible for moving contemporary fantasy to the gritty end of the [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]].
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