If I already like ...

David Duffy · 17 Apr 2012, 22:54 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:54:17 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) If I already like ...
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Jerry Friedman wrote:

> I didn't like either Beasts or The Deep.

I originally thought _The Deep_ a little turgid until the VanVogtian 
ending, but enjoyed the whole lot on rereading.  Ditto _Beasts_: 
Reynard might be Dr Talos.

If one was riffing on Lafferty, Wolfe, Powers ..., one might consider 
Anthony Burgess, who wrote a surprising amount of SF; Edward 
Whittemore (_Sinai Tapestry_ et seq); and Charles Williams (who I prefer 
to CS Lewis).

I personally am also partial to Rudy Rucker, whose thought processes seems 
as tangential as Lafferty, but SFnal; and Stanislaw Lem, thinking of the 
Borgesian plot lines in _the Cyberiad_, _The Star Diaries_, _The 
Futurological Congress_, but a lot funnier than Borges.

Cheers, David Duffy.

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