Other SF writers? (Was: How list works and questions to mailers)

Gwern Branwen · 12 May 2008, 20:19 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:19:53 -0400
Subject: (urth) Other SF writers? (Was: How list works and questions
	to	mailers)
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On 2008.05.12 20:35:18 +0100, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> scribbled 3.8K characters:
>    On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Andy Robertson <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
>      Tim Walters writes:
>
>        I also recommend Paul Park, Kelly Link, and Robert Aickman, who share many
>        of Wolfe's best qualities, and John Crowley, who isn't much like Wolfe but
>        is equally good.
>
>      And the sainted R A Lafferty
>      hartshorn
>
>    All the Lafferty discussion on this list has put the man on my reading list. Where should I
>    start?

Start with _Fourth Mansions_, if you don't want to pick up one of the short story collections. It's probably one of the 'purest' and best novel distillations of Lafferty. After reading it, you'll know whether you like him or not.

If you do, you could move on to _The Devil is Dead_ and the others.

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