(urth) If I already like ...

[Antonin Scriabin]

I have *The Rediscovery of Man *by Cordwainer Smith; I read one or two of
the stories some time ago and enjoyed them, but haven't looked through it
for a while.

Steven Erikson is definitely entertaining; he isn't the wordsmith that some
of these other authors are, but he can write a pretty fascinating (and
large) plot, has good humor throughout his books, and has some of the best
(and most emotional) action sequences I have come across.  I would never
defend it as great literature, but his *Malazan Book of the Fallen* is
definitely my top "guilty pleasure" fantasy.  I know he is a big fan of
Glen Cook, but from what I have read, *Malazan *is superior to Cook's *Black
Company.*

"Flan O'Brien, Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility or
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Proust."

I haven't read any of these, though I am aware of most of them.  I am a big
fan of William T. Vollmann and Thomas Pynchon.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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