Wofano Wotanto
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Some of my earliest adult reading material was ERB, so I got the purist thing beat right from word one. Growing up with Barsoom will do that for you - and I discovered Moorcock by 5th grade as well, which certainly helped cement the idea that fantasy and scifi could blur together just fine.Grade school would've absolutely been the wrong time for me to discover Barsoom. Back then I was still very much a purist, a "keep my fantasy and science-fiction separate" opinion. Thankfully, I got better.
Still not sure I understand the Jerry Cornelius books, though. Thank goodness I read Elric and Hawkmoon first or I might never have touched his work.