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This concluding chapter considers the response to Mythago Wood, and looks at how the ideas and approaches generated in the novel fed into everything Holdstock wrote subsequently, not just the further novels in the Mythago Wood sequence, but also his non-mythago work, most notably the trilogy of the Merlin Codex. The chapter finishes by noting how profoundly influential Mythago Wood has been on all subsequent works of fantasy.
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Notes
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Works in the Mythago Wood sequence are indicated MW; works in the Merlin Codex are indicated MC.
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In addition to the sources shown below, I have relied on The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition edited by John Clute and David Langford, https://sf-encyclopedia.com/; and also on the Official Robert Holdstock website, https://robertholdstock.com/.
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Kincaid, P. (2022). Aftermath. In: Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood. Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10374-2_5
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