Zeraph

SF- well influences are quite broad, for instance it could have been pacing from that particular series that influenced her. I write, and I've been influenced by Stephen Brust. But my novels aren't much like his...the influence was from 1. He sold me on 3rd person 2. his personal advice.

Another instance is influence from LoTR. It was the epicness and the ability of a normal (non super power like gandalf) to change the fate of an epic series that influences me. Not orcs or elves or anything specifically.

I liked hairy potter, liked not loved. She's a good writer, but original, no. If anything her whole series is almost an old fantasy trope simply put in modern time. That is, the trope; of a boy who's marked for destiny, must learn/earn super powers, and then take down the dark lord in the end. Its actually almost cliche. She got by because it was set in modern times and she didn't use the old magic sword trope as well. So most people didn't notice.

My greatest influence is the scifi author Robert Heinlein. He was pretty much all scifi. But I haven't written any scifi yet. His influence was the philosophy he worked into his books.