There can only be one
Imagine that there is a Highlander for precocious, home-schooled authors from rural areas. That means that Jed Purdy is in the fight of his life now that Christopher Paolini is on the scene! Check the text, people:
� 15 when he wrote his fantasy novel Eragon
� loves Wagner and holds forth learnedly on the "Ring" cycle
� keeps Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" by his bed
� invented three languages for his characters of dwarves, elves and humanoids, some based on Old Norse, some from scratch
� never kissed a girl
Okay, that last one was bullshit, but I was reading between the lines. I say, good luck challenging J.K. Rowling's hegemony, Christopher, but you might want to be careful not to wind up like some other young geniuses.
