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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Dan Brown started a new genre? With a book published in 2004?! Say hello to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" filmed in 1981, based on what George Lucas started writing in the 1970's!
I would agree his commercial success spawned a bunch of copycats, as did other successes such as Harry Potter.
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Eco's The Name of the Rose was first published in 1980.