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Martin Bernard Cornwell was recently interviews by Game of
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Cornwell: You're right—fantasy and historical novels are
twins—and I've never been fond of the label "fantasy" which is
too broad a brush and has a fey quality.  It seems to me you
write historical novels in an invented world which is grounded
in historical reality (if the books are set in the future then
"fantasy" magically becomes sci-fi). So I've been influenced by
all three: fantasy, sci-fi and historical novels, though the
largest influence has to be C.S. Forester's Hornblower books. I
read them as a teenager, was consumed by them, ran out of
reading material after the last one of the series and s