Thanks for the link! I look forward to exploring more about and by Lafferty.<br><br>On the topic of women writers, has anyone read anything by Janny Wurts? I hear good things about her large and ongoing <i>Wars of Light and Shadow</i> 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).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Daniel Petersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com">danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>(It's been mentioned here before, but just in case present company didn't know that...)</div><div><br></div><div>-DOJP</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Antonin Scriabin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" target="_blank">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">R. A. Lafferty is very good, but unfortunately I have only been able to find and read one of his novels (his first, <i>Past Master</i>). 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!<br>
<br>-K<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Daniel Petersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap; display: inline; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(0, 148, 134);">Marc Aramini</span> <span style="vertical-align: top; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com" target="_blank">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a></span> <span style="vertical-align: top;">to <span style="vertical-align: top;">Urth:</span></span></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">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.</span><div>
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</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">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 </span></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">oeuvres of Lafferty and Wolfe! </span></font></div>
<div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">-DOJP<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Marc Aramini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com" target="_blank">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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--- On Tue, 8/2/11, Jerry Friedman <<a href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> From: Jerry Friedman <<a href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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> I'd say a lot of the most admired male authors before the<br>
> 70s--Heinlein, Asimov,<br>
> Van Vogt (who I don't like), Anderson, Bradbury, Pohl,<br>
> Kornbluth--were extremely<br>
> didactic, with pragmatic, realistic purposes. Clarke<br>
> might be an exception. <br>
<br>
</div>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Just personal opinion to some degree, I suppose, like preferring Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy or Sterne to Richardson.<br>
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