Sometimes they actually pull it off. Of course, I also have a weakness for silly space opera AND military science fiction, so, err, yeah shrug you like what you like.
That said, James TIptree, Jr. and Ursula K. LeGuin are, with Gene Wolfe, my favorite writers in any genre, and they’re pretty much the opposite pole of science fiction/fantasy 
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@anon73430903 Fair enough, but I also wasn’t really responding re: Moorcock =).
No. To put it as cynically as possible, sometimes, I really enjoy being emotionally manipulated. And SF is for the most part deadening.
(and, no, I’m not trying to be sarcastic)
Ahh, you like military fiction. Or political thrillers?
No I got it…Franzen!
UR BURDEN OF PROOF, IT BACKWARDS
Damn. I was hoping that someone could fill in the premises for me, and write the essay in…
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… three days.
The easy way would be to use dianetics to demonstrate the folly of Campbell’s pretenses of scientism…
Google may not answer my questions, but it is full of interesting information
https://www.amazon.com/Punching-Babies-how-Adron-Smitley/dp/1502743531
Google’s in the break-room right now, saying, there’s somebody out there asking questions I don’t want to answer.
Did Ernest Hemingway punch a baby or something?
Inquiring minds want to know
The story was supposed to be six words-- no longer.
The baby cried all night. Almost.
i am mildly intrigued.
https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/jcha/1984/jcha_19_4/002200948401900404/20160915/002200948401900404.fp.png_v03(I’m a fan of CS, among others)
That’s one thing I love about Lois McMaster Bujold. Sometimes she writes sci-fi, sometimes she writes fantasy, but she always writes romance!
I tried reading Ringo once and made it this far:
“I’d forgotten how much he looks like a fireplug.” Lieutenant General John J. (Jumpin’ Jack) Horner murmured to himself, standing at a comfortable parade rest as the Volkswagen puttered into a parking place. Over six feet tall and almost painfully handsome, the general’s appearance was the epitome of a senior military officer. Slim and hard looking, stern of mien, the only time he smiled was just before he pulled the rug out from under an incompetent junior officer. Erect of carriage, his Battle Dress Uniform fit as if, contrary to regulation, it was tailored. With closely cropped, silver hair and glacial blue eyes he appeared to be exactly what he was: an iron-clad modern scion of the Prussian warrior class.
It’s not for me.
thanks for the recommendation.
If you’re looking for a female author, I’ve been enjoying N K Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” series of late. Well written, she paints complete worlds and presents them beautifully.
Google raises far more questions than it answers, as usual.
Yes, it’s great. Read Foucault’s Pendulum, preferably as an ebook, as the bloody thing is heavy enough to kill someone with, but all his books are pretty damn good.
It’s been a long time-- does Foucault’s Pendulum include typographical elements that stretch the limits of what a kindle can handle?
