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witch:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 12, 01:18:33
I don't think I've ever read anything by Brian Aldiss, John Brunner, or Michael Moorcock. I can say, by that definition, that my science fiction collection is complete because there are books by these guys in my library, and I've even met a couple of them,
_jealous!_
and you design spaceships for a living - I haven't forgotten.
_jealous!__jealous!_
Brian Aldiss and Michael Moorcock write in a similar style, I have trouble reading either, though more success with Brian than Michael. I try Michael Moorcock about once a decade in the hopes I have got smart enough or mature enough to understand him.
I don't understand why science fiction is so hidden. Our local library stopped having a science fiction section about ten years ago. Looking for SF now is a dreary process of finding a little pegasus or saturn icon amongst the zillions of sherlock holmes, cross or heart icons liberally splattered everywhere. Then it's most likely a bloody sword and sorcery quantilogy or some pathetic fantasy about ordinary new york girl meets fairy. Like it would be hard to meet a fairy in NY! :P
laeshanin:
Quote from: witch on 2005 August 12, 05:29:08
I don't understand why science fiction is so hidden. Our local library stopped having a science fiction section about ten years ago. Looking for SF now is a dreary process of finding a little pegasus or saturn icon amongst the zillions of sherlock holmes, cross or heart icons liberally splattered everywhere. Then it's most likely a bloody sword and sorcery quantilogy or some pathetic fantasy about ordinary new york girl meets fairy. Like it would be hard to meet a fairy in NY! :P
I am at a loss to answer this. But you are absolutely right and I am sick of the stuff that passes for fantasy these days. The only fantasy author I read is Charles de Lint and his stuff is so bloody hard to get hold off I could run screaming into a bookshop with a machete. Oh, for a decent writer... (Donaldson is good if blacker than the bottom of a coal mine during an eclipse.)
Read Aldiss, Asimov, Blish, E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Triplanatary being the book to blame for my obsession with science fiction), and sooooo many others I've lost track. Read the odd bit of Greg Bear, some Gibson and a very good British author called Michael Marshall Smith (excellent premise in all of the novels), but made many more mistakes as witnessed by my bulging bookshelves. How about Julian May? Ann McCaffrey? Oh my, those dragons...don't ya just wish?
witch:
Was Donaldson the one that wrote that huge series about the leper bloke? Ah, that's it, Thomas Covenant. I kept reading thinking it would get better. Thomas whinged, moaned and bleated his way through a number of rather large books if I recall, it's been a few years...
PS Dragons, oh yes.
PPS Just read several Charles de Lint. He leaves me feeling just a little bit unsatisfied, like a mental orgasm that never arrives. Have you tried Robert Holdstock, he writes quite superior fantasy.
laeshanin:
:D That's him. Miserable sod with loads of attitude and hard-donebyedness (? heh) Will deff look out for Robert Holdstock, and give him a whirl.
Renatus:
For those looking for interesting fantasy, I recommend Patricia A McKillip. Less so anything written before 1990, although her Harpist series is decent - her writing took on a more distinct style by the time she wrote "The Sorceress and the Cygnet", and kept it. Her writing is dreamlike - reminds me at times of Bradbury - and her worlds... well, some of them are rather medieval, and there are some fantasy creatures, yet it's entirely different from your usual sword and sorcery fare.
Katherine Kerr's Deverry series is quite excellent. I've also heard good things about China Mieville, but I haven't read the book of his I have yet because it's a gift to myself for when I finally finish writing a particular manuscript. (Sigh, it's been four months already...)
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