P.R. Adams
Short answer: a whole bunch of great SF books, comics, and movies.
Longer answer: the two biggest inspirations were Philip K. Dick's works and a Dead Can Dance song ("In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated"). PKD's constant questioning of what is reality and what makes us human were pretty different from more standard science fiction from his time, and I found the themes very compelling. The song I heard in the early 1990s, and it synced up with a sprawling science fiction epic comic book concept I was working on. The lyrics are open to interpretation, but for me, they spoke about faith, love, and fear. They ask, "Can you believe in something enough to overcome fear, even in the face of a host of human failings and impossible odds?"
Longer answer: the two biggest inspirations were Philip K. Dick's works and a Dead Can Dance song ("In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated"). PKD's constant questioning of what is reality and what makes us human were pretty different from more standard science fiction from his time, and I found the themes very compelling. The song I heard in the early 1990s, and it synced up with a sprawling science fiction epic comic book concept I was working on. The lyrics are open to interpretation, but for me, they spoke about faith, love, and fear. They ask, "Can you believe in something enough to overcome fear, even in the face of a host of human failings and impossible odds?"
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