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Greatest time-travel tale. Powers may have written a couple of journeyman books but never a weak one. If you have never read him then you should start now. Also read On Stranger Tides & The Stress of Her Regard. This is the book that most fans of Tim Powers read first. |
An examination of the mythical Christ vs. the historical Christ using the Science Fiction tropes of time travel and the time machine. |
A quest novel unlike any others. A woman led through the fantastic landscape of her dream world by her aborted son and how it all crosses over into the “real” world. An influence on Gaiman’s Sandman |
A truly original SF novel by an underrated writer. If only his day job didn’t take so much of his time maybe he would produce more mind-bending fiction. |
Leiber was truly one of the century’s great writers and he deserves more recognition. Fafhred & The Grey Mouser are his most recognized characters and tales but these quietly powerful tales still resonate with me, a clear influence on Tim Powers. |
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Akira is the more widely known work and it is deserving of its praise but I always thought it played things a little fast and loose at times. This however is tight storytelling from start to finish. A psychic battle of good and evil as represented by a girl and an old man that all takes place in an apartment complex. |
I’m familiar with and see the argument of calling Tolkien the greatest fantasist of the 20th century but I just don’t buy it. Now admittedly I’ve never toed the company line when it comes to fantasy (as I said once before I once watched my best friends head literally explode when I proclaimed that Jim Henson’s body of work was more important then Tolkien’s, but I digress) but I think that Jack Vance certainly could hold that top spot. His output and the quality that it maintained is just astonishing. I actually own the V.I.E. |
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Great story that begs and deserves to be discovered ( a “re-“ doesn’t even apply here). Haunting and will stick with you. |
One of the great SF epics. Contains the 1st 2 novels. Also read Endymion & Rise of Endymion. For me its consistency places it in higher regard then Dune which is all over the map quality wise after the admittedly great first book. |
Book 2 of the Jerusalem Quartet. The strongest of the group. All 5 of Whittemores books deserve to be read. They may be fantastic but I don’t think that they are fantasy, but what the hell it is my list right. |
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