Authors Who Kicked Off A (Sub)-Genre

Writing about Georgette Heyer as I did last Monday (and also on August 28) put me in mind of authors who have effectively kicked off their own genre or subgenre of literature.

Georgette Heyer certainly did so, generating the subgenre of the Regency romance via novels such as Friday’s Child and Cotillion. Her imitators are legion and in almost all cases, can only generate pale–and unsatisfying–shadows of the original (imho).

In June I did a guest post on Five Fabulous worlds of SFF for Shaun D...