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Bookspot Central interview

Jay Tomio at Bookspot Central has an interview with me up:

Jay Tomio – I always get the feeling that with Pepper no matter what the backdrop, be it a jungle adventure, a space opera, or on exotic islands that we are seeing a Leonesque Western figure – is there any truth to that and are you a fan?

Tobias Buckell – There is truth to it and I am a fan of Leone. A huge fan. Not only do I have the soundtracks, but most of the movies in my library. They had a huge impact on me as a kid. I recently stunned an audience by saying that as a kid I read almost as many Westerns as SF/F novels growing up in the Caribbean. The Wild West was as alien and exotic to someone living on an island as anything. In college I was into the Kurosawa films as well, as I started researching and following back where Leone and those cats were getting their inspiration from.

Filed under the topic My Writing: Interviews with me on November 13th 2008 at 1:23 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.

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