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Book of the New Sun won the contest!
James Wynn · 03 Aug 2011, 15:55
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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn) Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:55:11 -0500 Subject: (urth) Book of the New Sun won the contest! In-Reply-To: <1C130BC0-83F5-4384-99A1-BE2BB8E7E64A at liftingfaces.com> References: <1312326094.60046.YahooMailRC at web114702.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1312336245.34374.YahooMailClassic at web161809.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <CAGB0RZ7VoF2tYwKzFEoodS2HNkadg7D7LzQMNQpLc05eqAYXHA at mail.gmail.com> <CAM0v-i6dFYVdTatCDMoH_6Bv9HTh-CsPQLQchUD7K5Wf7YcACQ at mail.gmail.com> <CAGB0RZ7XMuPNe=PCRc+aawQ71D4Aj=oNonYa9hdHpqxpBXVoYg at mail.gmail.com> <CAM0v-i6PYJ343oN7xVvOXpfCk8nO-p2TMnVhPviqmXkVFhgO3A at mail.gmail.com> <1C130BC0-83F5-4384-99A1-BE2BB8E7E64A at liftingfaces.com> Message-ID: <4E396F5F.7000601 at gmail.com> I did! I did! I think she's under rated. On 8/3/2011 10:39 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote: > Nancy Kress is another very gifted female SF writer, I'm not sure if > she was mentioned yet or not. > > ...ryan > > > > On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote: > >> Thanks for the link! I look forward to exploring more about and by >> Lafferty. >> >> On the topic of women writers, has anyone read anything by Janny >> Wurts? I hear good things about her large and ongoing /Wars of Light >> and Shadow/ and have picked up the first two books, but have enough >> on my to-read pile that I can't start them. A brief scan through >> shows that the prose is very dense, flowery, and "archaic" ... which >> is something I am more likely to enjoy than not, if done well. My >> favorite female writers have all tended to be pretty far from the >> science fiction / fantasy genres (Jeannette Winterson and Joyce Carol >> Oates). >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Daniel Petersen >> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com >> <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Since the topic has turned slightly to Lafferty, I'd be remiss in >> not mentioning I write the only blog on the net dedicated to him: >> >> http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/ >> >> (It's been mentioned here before, but just in case present >> company didn't know that...) >> >> -DOJP >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Antonin Scriabin >> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com <mailto:kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> R. A. Lafferty is very good, but unfortunately I have only >> been able to find and read one of his novels (his first, >> /Past Master/). I definitely will keep my eye out for more. >> I had no idea "science fantasists" was a sub-genre, and one I >> enjoyed so much! >> >> -K >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Daniel Petersen >> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com >> <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com >> <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com> to Urth:My favorites were >> probably more likely to be labeled as science fantasists, >> Zelazny, Philip K Dick, R A Lafferty, Abraham Davidson, >> Cordwainer Smith, etc. I liked Theodore Sturgeon though. >> >> >> Nice list (including Bradbury) - throw in some Harlan >> Ellison, Brian Aldiss, Michael Bishop, Le Guin, and, of >> course, Wolfe, and that's usually my kind of brew. I >> still can't get past that 60s/70s 'New Wave' sort of >> anthropological s.f. period. From the 80s I've enjoyed >> Dan Simmons, but I really haven't read much s.f. beyond >> that. (Except Tim Powers, who spans 70s to now, and whom >> I'm increasingly becoming a genuine fan of). I only went >> backwards in time from there - Lovecraft, William Hope >> Hodgson, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, >> etc. I'm really interested in delving into more >> contemporary stuff from the likes of Michael Swanwick, >> Wiliam Gibson, China Mieville, Charles Stross, Charles De >> Lint, John C. Wright, etc. Still trying to fit it in >> whilst trying to read and write about the entire oeuvres >> of Lafferty and Wolfe! >> >> -DOJP >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Marc Aramini >> <marcaramini at yahoo.com <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Jerry Friedman >> <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com >> <mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>> wrote: >> >> > From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com >> <mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>> >> >> >> > I'd say a lot of the most admired male authors >> before the >> > 70s--Heinlein, Asimov, >> > Van Vogt (who I don't like), Anderson, Bradbury, Pohl, >> > Kornbluth--were extremely >> > didactic, with pragmatic, realistic purposes. Clarke >> > might be an exception. >> >> It's funny, you named all my least favorite authors >> there except Bradbury, his summoning of innocence and >> the gathering its subtle but mature sinister loss >> always interested me. never liked most of those guys >> . . . tedious to me for some reason. I liked some >> of Clarke. I don't think those guys were really >> artists (call me a snob). Asimov I liked as a >> childrens author, and he had one or two works that >> surpassed his usual output. >> >> My favorites were probably more likely to be labeled >> as science fantasists, Zelazny, Philip K Dick, R A >> Lafferty, Abraham Davidson, Cordwainer Smith, etc. I >> liked Theodore Sturgeon though. >> >> Just personal opinion to some degree, I suppose, >> like preferring Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy or Sterne to >> Richardson. >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, write urth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> >> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net >> <http://www.urth.net/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, write urth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> >> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net >> <http://www.urth.net/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, write urth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> >> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net >> <http://www.urth.net/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, write urth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> >> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net <http://www.urth.net/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, write urth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> >> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth at urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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