Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site valid.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!valid!sbs From: sbs@valid.UUCP (Steven Brian McKechnie Sargent) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Wolfe the best? Message-ID: <155@valid.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 00:17:28 EST Article-I.D.: valid.155 Posted: Sat Mar 1 00:17:28 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Mar-86 22:56:04 EST References: <1200@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: Valid Logic, San Jose, CA Lines: 30 > From: Laurence Brothers > ... > ... [The Book] > of the New Sun is a tour-de-force until he produces more novels of the same > stature. > > -Laurence *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Peace. Just as good, and shorter. The fifth head of Ceberus. Science fiction whose science is anthropology. He has a new one out, too, but I haven't gotten to it. I'd like to ask this newsgroup for recommendations. Since I started reading Gene Wolfe, most of my old favorites have started resembling "Speed racer" cartoons by comparison. Philip Dick is also wonderful, but he's not writing much these days :-) and I also enjoy U.K. LeGuin. Are there other authors, who I haven't heard of, who are working in this vein (very literate, very imaginative, very good storytellers, very high snob appeal)? Most of the articles I see are discussing "Volume 7 in the Dog rapists of X'a'_uquua series." (One of my favorite small things about all the authors mentioned above is that they don't feel a need to barrage their readers with unpron- ounceable names for characters and places; they have far less stagey ways of conveying alienness.) S.