I'm largely a mainstream (or, perhaps more accurately, roots of) fantasy and horror reader: J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. P. Lovecraft, and other fine fellows of that sort. I also loved the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and Dark Sun novels when I was younger. I periodically pick up something by either Michael Moorcock or Fritz Leiber in the bookstore and thumb through it, but somehow manage to never have enough cash on hand to justify the purchase (though I keep meaning to read both of them.) I'm not much of a sci-fi reader, at all, however, having committed the various blasphemies of never reading anything to do with Ender or Dune, and never doing more than to skim Asimov or Gibson, only to determine that I didn't especially care for either.
That said, I find that I'm enjoying a number of pulp/fantasy/horror/etc. anthologies; books with titles like Thrilling Tales! and Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. Many of these short stories are submitted by bigger names in the industry, though some are written by folks who seem to be known (and highly praised) by the compilers, but whom I have never so much as heard of. The sheer awesomeness of a handful of these stories has encouraged me to stick to anthologies, as the occasional diamonds in the rough - quite often, the stories written by the unknowns - tend to be pretty fantastic, indeed.
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Date: 2010-02-03 07:22 pm (UTC)That said, I find that I'm enjoying a number of pulp/fantasy/horror/etc. anthologies; books with titles like Thrilling Tales! and Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. Many of these short stories are submitted by bigger names in the industry, though some are written by folks who seem to be known (and highly praised) by the compilers, but whom I have never so much as heard of. The sheer awesomeness of a handful of these stories has encouraged me to stick to anthologies, as the occasional diamonds in the rough - quite often, the stories written by the unknowns - tend to be pretty fantastic, indeed.
Also, Cherie Priest's Boneshaker was marvelous.