Mapping creative influence

How many of us of a similiar age shared key influences forming our tastes—and for that matter what can be considered key? In the New York Review of Science Fiction, in 1991, editor and genre raconteur Donald Keller investigated this matter briefly, his context the formation of “Fantasy of Manners,” or what was sometimes called (tongue firmly in cheek) “Mannerpunk.”

I no longer have my copy—it got lost several moves ago—but from what I recall, there were influences I would have expected and som...