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[Antonin Scriabin]

R. A. Lafferty is very good, but unfortunately I have only been able to find
and read one of his novels (his first, *Past Master*).  I definitely will
keep my eye out for more.  I had no idea "science fantasists" was a
sub-genre, and one I enjoyed so much!

-K

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Daniel Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com to Urth:My favorites were probably more
> likely to be labeled as science fantasists, Zelazny, Philip K Dick, R A
> Lafferty, Abraham Davidson, Cordwainer Smith, etc. I liked Theodore Sturgeon
> though.
>
>
> Nice list (including Bradbury) - throw in some Harlan Ellison, Brian
> Aldiss, Michael Bishop, Le Guin, and, of course, Wolfe, and that's usually
> my kind of brew.  I still can't get past that 60s/70s 'New Wave' sort of
> anthropological s.f. period.  From the 80s I've enjoyed Dan Simmons, but I
> really haven't read much s.f. beyond that.  (Except Tim Powers, who spans
> 70s to now, and whom I'm increasingly becoming a genuine fan of).  I only
> went backwards in time from there - Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur
> Machen, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, etc.  I'm really interested in
> delving into more contemporary stuff from the likes of Michael Swanwick,
> Wiliam Gibson, China Mieville, Charles Stross, Charles De Lint, John C.
> Wright, etc.  Still trying to fit it in whilst trying to read and write
> about the entire oeuvres of Lafferty and Wolfe!
>
> -DOJP
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
>> >>
>> > I'd say a lot of the most admired male authors before the
>> > 70s--Heinlein, Asimov,
>> > Van Vogt (who I don't like), Anderson, Bradbury, Pohl,
>> > Kornbluth--were extremely
>> > didactic, with pragmatic, realistic purposes.  Clarke
>> > might be an exception.
>>
>> It's funny, you named all my least favorite authors there except Bradbury,
>> his summoning of innocence and the gathering its subtle but mature sinister
>> loss always interested me.  never liked most of those guys  . . . tedious to
>> me for some reason.  I liked some of Clarke.  I don't think those guys were
>> really artists (call me a snob).  Asimov I liked as a childrens author, and
>> he had one or two works that surpassed his usual output.
>>
>> My favorites were probably more likely to be labeled as science
>> fantasists, Zelazny, Philip K Dick, R A Lafferty, Abraham Davidson,
>> Cordwainer Smith, etc. I liked Theodore Sturgeon though.
>>
>> Just personal opinion to some degree,  I suppose, like preferring
>> Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy or Sterne to Richardson.
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