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Can someone explain why, when I add "davon" to my interest list, it becomes "dav?n" and doesn't link? I know of at least one other person who has the same thing.

Sources and Inspiration

I was talking to inannajones over dinner, about various things, as my brain starts to come back online after the flu. I'm enjoying being able to think again, and enjoying it more because there's no work stuff in there. One of the things I was talking about was listing off sources and inspiration that I've used, consciously or otherwise, for Davon, and indeed, asking people to an "if you liked those, you'll probably like this" thing with it all. I'm not including obvious stuff here, where obvious is, for instance, the Planescape and Spelljammer settings. So, not in any order...

Feist and Wurts' Empire trilogy
Ulysses 31
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Kowloon Walled City
Nirvana
Feist's Riftwar trilogy.
Wagner
Shakespeare, particularly A Midsummer Night's Dream
Billy Joel
Feist's Rise of a Merchant Prince
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné books
The appendices to Lord of the Rings
Mieville's Perdido Street Station and The Scar
AE
Warren Ellis' The Authority
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (The pirates bit)
The Muppets' Christmas Carol
Ghostbusters
WB Yeats
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Sandman, and everything else Neil Gaiman has written
Leslie Charteris' The Saint series
The Brothers Grimm
Edinburgh
CS Lewis' Narnia series
Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence