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I didn't realize how to use the 'others' text so thank you for help el.
A tangential thought: I read Aegypt by John Crowley - described as a "writer's writer" -a few years ago and it was fascinating. (He's better known for Little Big). I might want to check out his book The Translator, ... ... by Gene Wolfe
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin.
The Complete Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
Aegypt series by John Crowley.
Ash by Mary Gentle
The Architecture Of Desire by Mary Gentle.
The White Bird Of Kinship series by Richard Cowper.
Lest Darkness Fal ... ... to start. Little, Big is a fantasy-tinged family saga, while The Translator is a sort of Cold War romance. Move on to his Aegypt tetralogy, which he just completed this year.
He's been compared to Cormac McCarthy, in that his style can be somewhat baroque and he pushes the boundaries of ... ... hem.
Here are some that I have a soft spot for:
Pavane by Keith Roberts (drat, no touchstone again)
The Ægypt (Aegypt) tetralogy by John Crowley
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Red Shift by Alan Garner
But some people ... That's right. We do hope to get that up on the web site soon, because that's a lot of difficult (to me, anyway) fiction.
Aegypt is the selection for the Readercon Book Club panel. We usually also have 2-4 "How I Wrote..." one-person presentations, where an author tells us about the development ... ... be discussed this are the Aegypt tetraology by John Crowley. The first book has just been reissued with his original title, The Solitudes (it was published under Aegypt). The other books are Love and Sleep, Daemonomania and Endless Things (the newest and latest, still in hardcover, I ... ... Amber series is unique starting with Nine Princes in Amber.
John Crowley, Little, Big is certainly unusual and Aegypt is even stranger.
Charles de Lint doesn't do the standard fantasy magic check out Moonheart, Greenmantle, or even Trader Writers & titles Cliff might like:
John Crowley, Engine Summer; for fantasy his Aegypt series.
Gene Wolfe. I'll let other recommend specific titles here.
Samuel Delany, Dhalgren
Gwyneth Jones, White Queen, Divine Endurance, and other titles
Ursula K. LeGuin, Always Coming Home
Ja ... The order is -
Aegypt
Love and Sleep
Daemonomania
Endless Things ... all look similar) and he started selling again; not wildly, but enough to keep him on the shelf.
It's like Crowley's Aegypt series. When the third, Daemonomania came out, the previous two were no longer available. Hard to acquire new readers when they are expected to start with book ... ... poetry written by one of the characters (although this is, of course, not the only other books which do this).
Perhaps Aegypt might've been a bit ahead of its time? Surely, Susanna Clarke had to have been aware of it before or during the writing process of Jonathan Strange (which, I've ... ... auer
A History of Heresy by David Christie-Murray
The Great Philosophers by Bryan Magee
The Book of Common Prayer
Aegypt by John Crowley
Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
by Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan ... this project, or if it's simply taking a great deal of time. (Sigh. Those of us who are fans of John Crowley's Aegypt tetralogy are very used to waiting... ;-)
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