chesneycat ([info]chesneycat) wrote,
@ 2007-02-08 14:53:00
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Current mood: curious
Entry tags:amcf, sf

Quality speculative fiction
I've just stuck my nose out on the "let's diss Todd" thread at AMCF, and declared that the novels on which the whole board is based are no more than beach-fluff. Yeah, well, that's all they are. Of course, I've now been challenged to identify what constitutes a "quality" genre fiction author. 

My top three?  I listed Kay, Mieville and Banks, with a lower tier consisting of Reynolds, Hamilton, Egan and Erikson.  Of course, I forgot to include Tolkien, Martin, Hobb and Bujold (the latter stradling serious and fluffy sf with remarkable skill).  Wurts has pretensions to these ranks, but her books are becoming somewhat overwritten, and besides, Arithon's already too much of a Stu as it is.

I have my list, of course, but I'd be curious to hear anyone else's opinion on the matter.  What do you think of my named authors? What makes a quality novel/author?  Who've I missed?


[Posting here to avoid the inevitable OMG!anne is teh bestest!!Eleventy! responses...]

Edit: the AMCF thread has turned into quite a decent book discussion.  Looks like Cavatica and I have very similar tastes.


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[info]kailisu
2007-02-12 12:26 pm UTC (link)
It's too bad that discussion ended up fizzling out. I was enjoying it.

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[info]chesneycat
2007-02-12 12:30 pm UTC (link)
Yeah... it's continued a bit further here on LJ though. Check out el_mcgruffle and snowcalla's journals (possibly, IIRC - if not it's someone on the collective friends-list) for more

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[info]kailisu
2007-02-12 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Collective friends list? I'm new to this - obviously - so I'm not quite sure how this works.

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[info]chesneycat
2007-02-13 12:02 pm UTC (link)
Sorry, nothing that technical! There's quite a big overlap bewteen the friends lists of most people on *my* friends list - all I meant was that it was on a friend's friend's page rather than one of my friends pages. I think. Now I'm just confused. It'd be a lot easier if I could remember where I'd seen it outright!

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