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Funnily enough, Raymond Jardine and I were just talking about this earlier.

My take is that when your series like Island, Everest, Titanic and so on came out, that was a demarcation between your older and newer books. I enjoy your new works but the older stuff certainly has a special place in my heart. There is a bit of a nostalgia effect going on there. People tend to think that the entertainment they had as kids was the best and anything new is garbage or pales in comparison. The choice of which GK era one prefers is informed by the evolution of both writer and reader.