(urth) If I already like ...

[Dave Lebling]

I'd put in another vote for Whittemore. If you like The Anubis Gates by 
Powers, you will probably like Whittemore, or vice versa.

Other than A Clockwork Orange, I can't say that Burgess has done much 
for me; same for Lewis and Lem. I like Rucker but I don't think he 
really is much like Lafferty except in his exuberant (stoned?) style.

To introduce another author, some Bruce Sterling really hits the same 
buttons for me as Rucker, Powers, and Lafferty. Wolfe is in a class by 
himself, or a category, if you will.

Dave Lebling

On 4/17/2012 6:54 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> 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.
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