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[wellinghall]

[Poll #1181318]

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[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

I interpret "Fan of" weakly, meaning just "like their writings".

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Modern SFF books that have been popular with Taruithorn and OUSFG:

"The Lies of Locke Lamora" Scott Lynch
"Perdido Street Station" China Mieville
"Revelation Space" Alastair Reynolds
"Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" Susannah Clarke

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That's vaguely what I had intended. I don't expect you to queue all night to get first place in a signing queue, or collect locks of their hair, or anything.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for those. I've tried the fourth, and couldn't really get into it; I haven't tried the others. I'll look out for them.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Try Fritz Leiber and Robert Howard, too. Good fun fantasy stuff.

You can sample them at Wightfrag, if you like.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I've moderately enjoyed the bits of FL that I've read. I don't think I've ever tried RH, though.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Big black book half-way along the right-hand wall of the garage. Good stuff. Much more an influence on modern fantasy than Tolkien ever was, IMO - all he did was bring in elves and halflings :-)

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Robert Rankin, too. At least his early ones, the first few of the Brentford Trilogy, for example.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Do you know "Thrud the Barbarian", and do you know the post-White Dwarf adventures?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Not tried him either.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

I know of him, but never met him. I've also heard of the post-WD stuff, but not seen it. If there's a collected works somewhere I'd gladly acquire it :-)

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

You have a busy weekend coming up soon, then :-D

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You are welcome to borrow ours (one collected-WD, and one set of five post-WD), though it might not be until after WightFrag.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Reading all weekend? Sounds like my idea of heaven :-)

[colinbj.livejournal.com]

Joe Haldeman's new 'The Accidental Time Machine' is IMHO pretty good.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I hadn't come across that - thanks.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I also wasn't sure about 'fan of'. Of the list, probably JRRT is the only one I am 'fan of' although I own all the detective works of DLS and have read them more than once, and likewise, I think I have all the fantasy works of Pratchett and have read them more than once. But I am not sure 'fan of' is quite the word for that.

After that, I have read and enjoyed some books by CS Lewis, Lois McMaster Bujold, Larry Niven, Asimov, Heinlein, Novik and Davis, but have not read everything by them and don't automatically buy everything they bring out.

If you like Lindsey Davis, you might try David Wishart's Corvinus series of Roman whodunnits. And if you like those, you'll probably like I Claudius, only you've probably read that...

I recommended Diana Wynne Jones, again, dunno if you've read her stuff anyway, but if not, then Deep Secret might be a good place to start for you, it's a fantasy book set at a science fiction* convention...

* unless you want to read it as a science fiction book set at a fantasy fiction convention, which you could do.

I can't remember if you've read any Ursula Le Guin, but if you haven't, you should. I believe the world would be a better place if everyone read some ULG.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

If you like detective fiction with a current setting, try Peter Robinson. I started reading them a year ago and the most recent is amazing, but only if you've read the earlier ones. I also like Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky and Val McDermid, and have recently started reading Rebus. More into detectives than SciFi/Fantasy...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Some ULG I enjoy a lot, some not so much - but it is a while since I've read anything new by her.

I've read Deep Secret, but not much else by DWJ - I'm sure Creatrix has some somewhere.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I've moderately enjoyed the couple of Rebus novels I've read, but no more than that. Vaguely heard of SP, but not the others. I'll look out for them.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Of ULG's newer work, I like the Talents series:
Gifts
Voices
Powers

and if you haven't read Rocannon's World, that is an old one but well worth digging out.

DWJ - if you have read Deep Secret, there is the Merlin Conspiracy, which is a sort of followup to that, and you may like Dark Lord of Derkholm.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendations.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I also second the mentions of Vernor Vinge and CJ Cherryh.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Two more I've not read.

Bugger. I cannot believe that I left off -

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

- Harold Lamb, currently being reprinted.

Also, if Falco, why not Judge Dee (Robt v Gulik)?