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I did! I did! I think she's under rated.<br>
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On 8/3/2011 10:39 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
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type="cite">Nancy Kress is another very gifted female SF writer,
I'm not sure if she was mentioned yet or not.
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<div>On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Thanks for the link! I look forward
to exploring more about and by Lafferty.<br>
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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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM,
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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:
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<div>(It's been mentioned here before, but just in case
present company didn't know that...)</div>
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Antonin Scriabin
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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>
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-K
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2011 at 10:16 AM, Daniel Petersen <span
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148, 134);">Marc Aramini</span> <span
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style="vertical-align: top;">to <span
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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>
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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
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and Wolfe! </span></font></div>
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> From: Jerry Friedman <<a
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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>
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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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