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[Antonin Scriabin]

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> 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
> > 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> 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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