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#256
General / Re: SF Novelists, who floats your ...
04 July, 2002, 10:01:55 PM
I have an illustrated collection of Harlan Ellison stories from the 70s, which includes '"Repent", Harlequin, said the Ticktockman', one of the best short stories I've ever read.
#257
General / Re: SF Novelists, who floats your ...
03 July, 2002, 12:20:50 PM
And most of Clark Ashton Smith's stuff is out of copyright and on the web.

Link: http://www.eldritchdark.com" target="_blank">Clark Ashton Smith Short Story Archive.

#258
General / Re: SF Novelists, who floats your ...
02 July, 2002, 04:39:14 AM
Frank Herbert's first Dune book was good. But they get increasingly interminable as you go on.

Moorcock, of course. Anybody else here manages to get through all eight Jerry Cornelius books?

HG Wells was amazing. He really is. The War of the Worlds is one of the greatest things I've ever read. It says some depressing things about human nature, mind.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (is this fantasy, though?) was crap, and yet I find his stuff immensely enjoyable, particularly the John Carter: Warlord of Mars series... which also went on a bit. Silly but immense fun.
#259
Off Topic / Re: Fantasy novelists, who rocks y...
02 July, 2002, 07:49:52 PM
Magical Realism is an excellent form of fanatasy.

And I love GG Marquez, Borges, and all that jazz. It's the kind of stuff I write myself.

I've read Banana Yoshimoto's NP. It was OK... but I've read better.  

I rate Peake higher than Tolkien (who's the better actual writer? well, duh) too.
#260
Off Topic / Re: Fantasy novelists, who rocks y...
01 July, 2002, 09:18:09 PM
Obvious perhaps, but... Moorcock. Only fantasy author I read who's still alive.

Dead fantasy authors, well... there's Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs... the list goes on.
#261
Off Topic / Re: SF Novelists, who floats your ...
01 July, 2002, 08:03:33 PM
Jeff Noon's good.

I once read a book by Kim Stanley Robinson. That was good.

I still like William Gibson. He gets better and better, and I've read a couple of books by John Courtenay Grimwood. He's not bad.

Michael Marshall Smith is good too.

So. All the usual suspects, then.
#262
Off Topic / Re: Poetic justice
02 July, 2002, 01:54:17 AM
Dylan Thomas pisses on them all, from his place in a very Welsh Heaven.
#263
Off Topic / Re: Frank Miller is crap
28 June, 2002, 10:05:02 AM
I'm with the Kermode.

And I even agree with the Neil Gaiman comment....
#264
General / Re: Peer pressure
27 June, 2002, 11:34:25 PM
Surely nothing less than the great Cthulhu for peevs?
#265
General / Re: el spurioso & richard elson ha...
27 June, 2002, 11:37:35 PM
A new series from Spurrier and Elson?

Cool. Good on you, El Spurioso.
#266
General / Re: Beyond 2000
26 June, 2002, 06:12:37 PM
Fred rules!
#267
Website and Forum / Re: how???
27 June, 2002, 11:32:41 PM
...and here's mine!
#268
Pants. That means that my icon's not up on the site yet?
#269
"Entertaining America... One Moron at a time!"
#270
Off Topic / Re: Wash your mouth out!
25 June, 2002, 07:31:56 PM
fugger is good. I got it from a Mervyn peake novel.