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Not primarily a sci fi/fantasy writer, but his work had a big impact on me, he crossed all sorts of boundaries, seemed to touch a nerve with the literary intelligentsia who loved to hate him. But I love his Spider World Tetralogy, interesting speculations, good scenery The Philosopher's...

That was a great article. I thought it was great to see such excellent letters, form women in one of those old mags. It makes me feel grateful that they took up the fight. But yes, Asimov's letters are a shocker to modern eyes, I certainly hope he revised his opinions. Good comments from...

I've read a lot of Tolkien and Moorcock and I'll take Tolkien any day on pretty much every level. Tolkien has a very clear idea of what he is doing but he has an entirely different mission maybe even diametrically opposed to the outlook from Moorcock, which I suspect is why Moorcock so dislikes...

I also read quite a lot of spiritual books and alternative history Rudolph Steiner Sri Aurobindo Paramhansa Yogananda Paramhansa Prajnananda Colin Wilson Graham Hancock John Anthony West Drunvalo Melchizedek Colin Wilson Dion Fortune Also just read Stephen Fry's first memoir. I'm keen of John...

I've read through this thread and some of Harry Potter sucks thread, and prefer to respond in a thread that doesn't have sucks in the subject line. I came to Harry Potter after about 4 books had been published and so was aware it was really huge, but i was somewhat reluctant to join the party...

Dream Quest is the one of Lovecraft's works that has the most appeal to me, it has a lot more action than most of his works, but is really daringly imaginative and visionary. This was the first piece of Lovecraft I read and I was stunned by it, it made me think of William Blake and a journey...

I haven't seen anyone mention Barrington Bayley. I've been impressed with every novel of his I have read, I haven't re-read them, but I thought they were amazing mind bending works. I'm new to this site, but i haven't seen mention of him elsewhere, is he well liked here?

I'm just reading Dragonflight now and the large element of romance in the story is really what stands out for me. This is unashamedly using large elements of a women's genre in a sci fi fantasy novel. I assume these novels had a very large female audience & they were probably influential in...

These ones immediately spring to mind: Brian Aldiss: Hothouse Helliconia trilogy The Dark Light Years Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy Dawn Adulthood Rites Imago

Yes, i think the masters deserve some veneration. Personally I find a lot of the "Literature" of the 20th century, Joyce, Beckett, Conrad and many others as depressing and emotionally arid. I think as with classical music so with literature that "serious" artists were taking themselves very...

Yes, nice to see others appreciating Simak and early short sci fi classic novels. It's kind of ironic the kind of warm nostalgia I feel towards Simak's visions of the future. It is a while since I read him but the ones that stick out in my mind are: Time is the Simplest Thing Enchanted...

I had a period a couple of years ago of reading through his books, I really like him. I think one of the reasons why is that he was an early Sci Fi writer who thought the really interesting thing about the future would be how human beings change. Have different thought structures, he seemed...