Joe Haldeman et Lois McMaster Bujold ont répondu à la question de leurs influences.

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Q: Which authors and books have most influenced your writing?
Joe Haldeman : Within science fiction, my influences are standard for my generation of writers -- Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke. Others would be Sturgeon, Le Guin, Simak, Kuttner/Moore, Farmer, Dickson, Ellison. The two Bester biggies.

Outside of science fiction, it's more of a headscratcher. Hemingway is the only writer I've studied in depth, and I think he would count as an influence, especially the short stories. Steinbeck as well, I suppose. Many of the writers whose work I admire and seek out don't write at all like me -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jane Austen, Flann O'Brien, A few of the writers I studied with at the Iowa Writers Workshop were influences -- mostly Ray Carver, but also William Price Fox, Stanley Elkin, and Vance Bourjaily. (Not John Cheever, who was a kindly fellow but seemed to live on some other planet.)

I wrote and read a lot of poetry before I started writing fiction, and my influences there are standard. Shakespeare, of course (the poetry more than plays), and Milton; the Lake poets and Romantics. I wore out several copies of Palgrave's from about age nine through college. Some moderns, Cummings above all. I discovered Billy Collins when he'd just graduated from chapbooks, and forgive him his success.

Lois McMaster Bujold : In no particular order: Poul Anderson, Cordwainer Smith, Eric Frank Russell, Randall Garrett, Dorothy Sayers, Georgette Heyer, T.E. Lawrence, Basil Liddell Hart, Peggy Liss, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, St. Augustine, Mark Aurel Stein, Lady Murasaki, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Van Gulik, Rudyard Kipling, John Keegan, James H. Schmitz, Etsu Inagaki Sugamoto, Ivan Morris, Alexander Dumas, Gordon Hall Gerould, Agricola, Benvenuto Cellini, Barbara Tuchman, Fritz Leiber, William Shakespeare, Thomas B. Costain, and, all right, Heinlein and Asimov. "