“In a word, ‘Wow.’ It

“In a word, ‘Wow.’ It may well be these

stories to which our classic texts are indebted. So much of Western

popular fiction is foreshadowed in these stories. Joseph Campbell

whose synthesis of mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, was so

influential on George Lucas, has written extensively on Hindu myth

and legend. By recasting these stories as popular fantasy fiction,

Banker will, I think, do more to resurrect them and present them to

an audience which will appreciate them than any other way. It’s on

the shelves of the Fantasy sections in the bookstore that these

stories are being presented as living as opposed to museum pieces.

Banker is working on something which is needed: telling these

stories straight, but as colourful, epic entertainments for a

post-Lord of the Rings generation. There’s life beyond Europe.”

The Alien Online on Prince of Ayodhya

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