![]() ![]() One must also take into account the times in which the stories were written: in the 80's the US of A was in a fierce (and vituperative) trade war with Japan. Yes, the stories were totally ridiculous, and the Go metaphor was really just putting the familiar Chess metaphor in vaguely Asian flavored terms, but it was different enough to be intriguing. Besides the Ninja books he also wrote books like Zero (based around an American kenjutsu student and his super spy father), and Jian (set in China, and using Go as a metaphor for the action). And really, compared to other authors in the field (like Clive Cussler) he isn't too bad. ![]() In the 80's Lustbader owned Oriental adventure fiction. ![]() Not exactly controversial or hard to support, but one that provokes thought on my part, and a desire to discuss the Ninja cycle by a man who, at one time, was the pre-eminent Western author writing fiction in Asian settings. ![]()
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