(urth) If I already like ...

[David Duffy]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Jerry Friedman wrote:

> I didn't like either Beasts or The Deep.

I originally thought _The Deep_ a little turgid until the VanVogtian 
ending, but enjoyed the whole lot on rereading.  Ditto _Beasts_: 
Reynard might be Dr Talos.

If one was riffing on Lafferty, Wolfe, Powers ..., one might consider 
Anthony Burgess, who wrote a surprising amount of SF; Edward 
Whittemore (_Sinai Tapestry_ et seq); and Charles Williams (who I prefer 
to CS Lewis).

I personally am also partial to Rudy Rucker, whose thought processes seems 
as tangential as Lafferty, but SFnal; and Stanislaw Lem, thinking of the 
Borgesian plot lines in _the Cyberiad_, _The Star Diaries_, _The 
Futurological Congress_, but a lot funnier than Borges.

Cheers, David Duffy.