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An inspiration engine for ideas
Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
Ernest Cline • Ready Player One
crude-looking but massive swords.
Brandon Sanderson • The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn
Koloss blood, Waxillium thought. Dangerous.
Brandon Sanderson • The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel (The Mistborn Saga Book 4)
the watching, waiting part of Marsh.
Brandon Sanderson • The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
Scales of the Weeping Dragon poured over him, crackling with lightning. Wavedancer
Will Wight • Waybound (Cradle Book 12)
Thank you as well to the authors who have helped me tackle the multiple-narrator beast—Scott Sigler, Justin Cronin, and Terry Brooks. And the authors whose colossal shoulders we all stand upon—Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Dan Simmons, George R. R. Martin, Bernard Cornwell, J. K. Rowling.