Considering the Remaining Appendix N Posts. Resurrected Post.
Glancing at Appendix N I find only a handful of authors remaining. Only five are left for me to write web log posts about. A notable five: Jack Vance, Stanley Weinbaum, Manley Wade Wellman, Jack Williamson, and Roger Zelazny. I���ll be finishing strong.
I���ve read something from all of them. I won���t need to seek any of them out for the first time. In fact, with the exception of Manley Wade Wellman, I have at least one book on my shelves from each of them. And I���m pretty sure Wellman appears in one of the dog-eared, paperback anthologies sitting there just to my right as I write this. Still, I have an excuse to add a Silver John collection to my books.
Jack Vance, the titan, the big dog of Appendix N is in the batting circle. I���m having a wonderful time preparing. I hope no one is in any rush; reading Vance is an experience to savor. A college fiction-writing instructor whose class I took back in the day considered genre fiction ��� the sort of thing I was predisposed to write ��� as so much junk food. I should have handed him a volume of Vance, chosen at random, and said ���Here���s fine dining, you snob.���
I might feel a bit melancholy when I���ve completed the list. I���ve enjoyed revisiting old favorites and filling in the odd gap. I suppose I���ll need a new project, something to anchor the usual potpourri of nonsense I write here. Any suggestions?
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Published on February 18, 2018 11:51
