 His love for fantastic literature started early (he still wore short pants), with an intense (he didn’t sleep for a whole week) meeting with J.R.R.Tolkien, followed by deep and frequent divings into Farmer’s, Zelazny’s, Howard’s, Bradley’s, Moorcock’s and Leiber’s universes, as well as other master magicians.When we asked him from where his inspiration came from, he replied generally about the impact these readings had on his imagination, or even his personality, before adding he never felt like having invented anything