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

Lane Haygood · 12 May 2008, 21:49 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: lhaygood at gmail.com (Lane Haygood)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:49:48 -0500
Subject: (urth) Other SF writers? (Was: How list works and questions
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Anyone who likes Wolfe should, if they can, get ahold of Sean  
Williams' "Books of the Change" and "Books of the Cataclysm." I know  
the latter are published by Pyr in the States, but I've had to order  
most of my copies from Australian sellers, although the hunt was well  
worth it.  "The Books of the Cataclysm" are among the finest SF I have  
ever read.

Tad Williams (I've a thing for the name, it seems) also springs to  
mind as another top-flight SF novelist, as do the "old faithfuls" of  
LeGuin, Leiber, Moorcock, Zelazny, Moore, Howard and Vance. If you  
like more gritty, militaristic fantasy, Glen Cook has recently  
released some of his "Black Company" novels in anthologies, which are  
well worth it if you dig the style (think Able with slightly more self- 
awareness and humor).

The other books I have been reading lately (apart from law books) are  
Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" novels. They've been compared to what would  
happen if you replaced Patrick O'Brian's ships with dragons. And  
they're excellent. It's rare for something involving dragons to hold  
my interest at all, but Novik really has a gift and has created  
clever, endearing, and intelligent novels with some real depth to them.

And in the more epic fantasy vein, I've enjoyed George R.R. Martin's  
"A Song of Ice and Fire" novels since I first read them in the late 90s.

Best,
Lane

On May 12, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
>
> On May 12, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Allan Anderson wrote:
>
>> I'd also love to get into some book-puzzle talk with some fans of  
>> both Wolfe and
>> Pynchon.
>
> Hi there.
>
> Can we add John Crowley too?
>
> Also, re: Mi?ville: I felt that _Waiting For Jake_ was way too much  
> "Look at me!  I've read Borges!  Aren't I clever?"
>
> I must admit to a snarky chuckle when I found that _The Wasp In A  
> Wig_ is one of the best-beloved children's books in Bas-Lag, though.
>
> Adam
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Best,
Lane

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