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BJM: [[Shakespeare]] because he is brilliant at revealing how people behave, Dickens because of his capacity to create character and atmosphere and Hemingway because of his powerful, stripped-down narrative. The [[Collected Poems Of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes|poetry of Ted Hughes]] is incredible; it shows how words can create. In the field of science fiction and fantasy, the most influential have been H P Lovecraft (for spooky weirdness), [[The Horror Stories of Robert E Howard by Robert E Howard|Robert E Howard]] (for action), [[:Category:J R R Tolkien|J R R Tolkien]] (for breadth of imagination), Mervyn Peake (for gothic eccentricity), [[The History Of The Runestaff by Michael Moorcock|Michael Moorcock]] (for refusing to conforming to genres) and [[:Category:Ursula K Le Guin|Ursula Le Guin]] (for depth of imaginative detail).