Jack Vance and Borges are both on my radar. I actually have 10 or so of Vance's novels (I grabbed whatever I could find after reading Wolfe's praise in <i>The Castle of the Otter</i>) ... I am just not sure which to pick up first. I think I have some middle installments of some of his series, I will have to take inventory soon. Of course I am a big fan of Lewis (<img goomoji="330" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:330@goomoji.gmail">), the Space Trilogy was one of my favorites in my teenage years. Thanks for the Nabokov recommend; I have never read anything by him, and now I have all the more reason to!<br>
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<div><span>It's not possible that you've read Wolfe, MacDonald, and Tolkien without reading C. S. Lewis, right?</span></div>
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<div><span>You might try Jack Vance, probably starting with "The Moon Moth". My reasons for disliking him are similar to my reasons for disliking Lafferty, which obviously don't apply for you, and Wolfe admires him greatly. He's another writer with an unflagging imagination.</span></div>
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<div><span>Borges of course. Start with the stories written from 1939 to 1949 (but not the Parodi stories).</span></div>
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<div><span>Which brings me to Nabokov, who as I occasionally say is the most Wolfean writer outside sf (or Wolfe is the most Nabokovian sf writer). <i>Pnin</i> and <i>Lolita</i> are his two classics in the literary tradition. <i>Pale Fire</i> (my favorite) has more fantasy. A fan of Lafferty might especially like <i>Invitation to a Beheading</i>.<i> </i> There were some interesting comments on two of Nabokov's<var></var> short stories, "The Visit to the Museum" and "Details of a Sunset", on NABOKV-L today. If anyone here has read either of those, I'd be interested in their thoughts.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"></div></font><div><div class="h5">Looks great! I was actually paging through <i>Little, Big</i> the other day at a bookstore. It seemed interesting, I will definitely try out the Aegypt books soon. Wikipedia says it is a tetralogy, the most recent published in 2007 ... is it sort of an "Urth of the New Sun" thing, or does the fourth book follow right on the other three's heels?<br>
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<div>On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Jordon Flato <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jordonflatourth@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jordonflatourth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>John crowley for sure. The aegypt trilogy is top notch</div>
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