(urth) Book of the New Sun won the contest!
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 08:55:11 PDT 2011
I did! I did! I think she's under rated.
On 8/3/2011 10:39 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Nancy Kress is another very gifted female SF writer, I'm not sure if
> she was mentioned yet or not.
>
> ...ryan
>
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the link! I look forward to exploring more about and by
>> Lafferty.
>>
>> On the topic of women writers, has anyone read anything by Janny
>> Wurts? I hear good things about her large and ongoing /Wars of Light
>> and Shadow/ and have picked up the first two books, but have enough
>> on my to-read pile that I can't start them. A brief scan through
>> shows that the prose is very dense, flowery, and "archaic" ... which
>> is something I am more likely to enjoy than not, if done well. My
>> favorite female writers have all tended to be pretty far from the
>> science fiction / fantasy genres (Jeannette Winterson and Joyce Carol
>> Oates).
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Daniel Petersen
>> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com
>> <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Since the topic has turned slightly to Lafferty, I'd be remiss in
>> not mentioning I write the only blog on the net dedicated to him:
>>
>> http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/
>>
>> (It's been mentioned here before, but just in case present
>> company didn't know that...)
>>
>> -DOJP
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Antonin Scriabin
>> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com <mailto:kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com
>> <mailto: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 <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Jerry Friedman
>> <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
>> <mailto: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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