(urth) If I already like ...

[Marc Aramini]

I really like some of Swanwick's stuff but not all of it - it's been hit and miss with me. He's a super nice guy, though, I got to talk to him at the Wolfe event for a while.  I liked Stations of the Tide and Iron Dragon's Daughter and some of his short fiction, but Jack Faust left me feeling very cold.

How do you feel about mainstream literary figures?  Flan O'Brien, Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility or The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Proust, Faulkner, Nabokov?  

Going the extreme opposite route with fantasists, how about R Scott Bakker or Steven Erikson or Glen Cook?  Then the old standbys like Clark Ashton Smith and Vance or the short fiction of Zelazny and Harlan Ellison and Tiptree Jr and Cordwainer Smith. (not necessarily like Lafferty, though)

--- On Tue, 4/17/12, pinlighter <pinlighter at btconnect.com> wrote:

> From: pinlighter <pinlighter at btconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) If I already like ...
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:02 PM
> Michael Swanwick?
> 
>    hartshorn
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Wolfe, Lafferty, Powers, MacDonald, and Tolkien, what
> else will I like?
> > This email list has good taste, and I was wondering
> what other hidden
> > authors you guys might enjoy, given preference for
> those mentioned. I
> > initially discovered Lafferty through this list some
> time ago, for example.
> > I know there has to be more!
> 
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