10-26-2009, 02:42 AM
Any fiction author who doesn't evoke something like that in me has failed at what I view to be his/her primary job.
...Handing out a lot more "Fail" in recent years than in the 1970s & 80s.
Zelazny was great, but never delivered consistent product for me. BTW: Have you read "Deus Irae" or that pulp spy novel they republished this year?
'Weirdest love/hate affair I've had with an author was Robert Silverberg. The Majipoor pop-stuff annoyed me to no end, but when I combed the thrift shops and found some of his rarer works, I discovered some amazing and mind-bending stuff from the 1950s and 60s that's often left out of his bibliographies. It pains me that I have his books in storage awaiting a bigger apartment or house.
...Handing out a lot more "Fail" in recent years than in the 1970s & 80s.
Zelazny was great, but never delivered consistent product for me. BTW: Have you read "Deus Irae" or that pulp spy novel they republished this year?
'Weirdest love/hate affair I've had with an author was Robert Silverberg. The Majipoor pop-stuff annoyed me to no end, but when I combed the thrift shops and found some of his rarer works, I discovered some amazing and mind-bending stuff from the 1950s and 60s that's often left out of his bibliographies. It pains me that I have his books in storage awaiting a bigger apartment or house.