I have <i>The Rediscovery of Man </i>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. <br><br>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 <i>Malazan Book of the Fallen</i> is definitely my top "guilty pleasure" fantasy. I know he is a big fan of Glen Cook, but from what I have read, <i>Malazan </i>is superior to Cook's <i>Black Company.</i> <br>
<br>"Flan O'Brien, Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility or The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Proust."<br><br>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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Marc Aramini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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)<br>
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> From: pinlighter <<a href="mailto:pinlighter@btconnect.com">pinlighter@btconnect.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: (urth) If I already like ...<br>
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> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:02 PM<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Michael Swanwick?<br>
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> hartshorn<br>
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> ----- Original Message ----- <<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> > Wolfe, Lafferty, Powers, MacDonald, and Tolkien, what<br>
> else will I like?<br>
> > This email list has good taste, and I was wondering<br>
> what other hidden<br>
> > authors you guys might enjoy, given preference for<br>
> those mentioned. I<br>
> > initially discovered Lafferty through this list some<br>
> time ago, for example.<br>
> > I know there has to be more!<br>
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