10-22-2007, 11:58 PM
I read a Manly Wade story (very Manly!) called "Waystation" or some such, about a feller livin' up in them thar hills that doesn't seem to get any older, and that's cuz during the War of Northern Agression, some aliens picked his cabin to use as a temporal/spatial gate and made him the inn-keeper.
Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, Titus Alone, The Worm Oruborus, were, to my then young palate, unreadable. I do know that Robertson Davies (one of my fave authors, even if he is a Canadian) thought he was the finest fantasy author ever. Prolly just too advanced for my teen-aged brain.
Concur with G-Man about Vance and Lee. Lanier...I read a story by him, I know it...better add him to the Vance & Lee list, I guess.
Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, Titus Alone, The Worm Oruborus, were, to my then young palate, unreadable. I do know that Robertson Davies (one of my fave authors, even if he is a Canadian) thought he was the finest fantasy author ever. Prolly just too advanced for my teen-aged brain.
Concur with G-Man about Vance and Lee. Lanier...I read a story by him, I know it...better add him to the Vance & Lee list, I guess.
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