Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:54:24 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> myeh at wap.org 3/30/2005 2:00:55 PM >>>
>
>I was rereading some of my collection lately.  I've got a
>couple of authors to recommend which weren't wildly
>popular but are easy to read.  These aren't old Classics,
>for that you should ask Ted White.
>For Fantasy try "Laurie J. Marks"
>and for SF try "Edward Llewellyn".
>
>  Of course its nice to read authors that everyone reads
>so that you can find someone to discuss the books with.

It's also fun to turn someone onto an author they're not familiar with.

> I
>liked the early Andre Norton, including historical
>fiction, but got tired of the Witch World books after the
>first half dozen.
>    Has anyone read Sheri Tepper?  The last couple of
>books seem to imply it would take alien intervention to
>save humanity from itself.  The SF equivalents of Deus Ex
>Machina.

One or two Teppers.  Well written, but did not engage me.  YMMV.

mjw

>   Madeleine