[mplspm]: Dude, who sole my perl book?
Dave Rolsky
autarch at urth.org
Thu Nov 28 01:59:46 CST 2002
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> No Jack Vance, who certainly had a unique style. And where's Jonathan
> Lethem? No Elizabeth Hand? Walter Jon Williams? Octavia Butler?
> Jonathan Carroll?
>
> I could go on. I would say that the list is a bit weighted towards
> "popular" books and fairly lacking in more "literary" authors, like some
> of the ones I just mentioned.
Ack, how could I mention literary SF and not mention Sean Stewart? I
shall beat myself severely for this. And Christopher Priest. And James
Morrow. Graham Joyce.
And then there's John Shirley, who put the punk in cyberpunk.
On a side note, the extended list has Gravity's Rainbow at #666. Seems
about right.
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