"VENTRELLA: What are your favorite fantasy novels? Favorite authors? Why?
ENGE: Tolkien, Leiber, Zelazny, Le Guin, Brackett, Vance. Zelazny has a great line in THE HAND OF OBERON. He actually speaks to his main character, Corwin, and he says that he’s writing “a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity.” I think that’s what all these guys do, to some extent, and that’s what I’m trying to do. I coined the term philorohorrmorbmance for it once, but it didn’t catch on for some reason, so I usually say I write sword-and-sorcery."
3.5 out of 5
http://michaelaventrella.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/interview-with-james-enge/
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