Comments on: On Influences

By: Chaz Brenchley

Chaz Brenchley — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Silverberg was twenty when “Revolt on Alpha C” was published; it’s not impossible - at all - that his first draft was written at sixteen. Snarl. Where’s the suffering, Bob? Where’s the starving in garrets…?

(At sixteen, I am proud to report, I still had my Matchbox cars.)

By: Ken Scholes

Ken Scholes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:47:24 +0000

Heh. I forgot about Legos. And action figures also featured heavily in my storytelling muscle development. D&D and the other spin-off games, did, too.

By: kateelliott

kateelliott — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:36:32 +0000

Oh. And I forgot. Matchbox cars. We had a bunch of those, too, and used them in tandem with the Lego.

By: kateelliott

kateelliott — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:36:03 +0000

Now that I think of it, Legos are probably the single most important and therefore influential toy I had. By far. I am sure I spent more time building with Legos than doing anything else except reading and, later, drawing maps and writing etc.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:47:20 +0000

Oh man, I used to play with legos alllll the time. You couldn’t walk into my room and not step on a castle, or a fighter plane, or submarine. Anything and everything, I built them all, then tore them down and built new things.

That was basically where my childhood went. That and ninja turtles, ghostbusters, and star trek.