Have you read Cordwainer Smith? It's... I don't know how to describe it. The prose is crazy and compelling with all sorts of literary and historical allusions, and he has a crazy and far-flung historical-SF-worldbuilding mythology, and there are cat-people and songs and it's not really like anything else I've ever read. I have no idea whether you'd like it (and I suppose it's the sort of thing that is harder to read in a post-SJ world (it was written in the 50s-70s); I read it when I was young and impressionable) but I just love it so much.
It seems curiously hard to find, especially in the US, bah (and I certainly don't recommend getting the full collection unless/until you sample and find it's to your taste). Let me research this and get back to you.
Book 4! That was the hardest slog for me. Book 5 is, um, less sloggy. (I was going to type "better," but SO DEPRESSING.) Are you annoyed with Marius yet, or are you really annoyed? :) (I like Marius! But Book 4 was not a good look for him.)
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Date: 2013-06-03 02:04 pm (UTC)It seems curiously hard to find, especially in the US, bah (and I certainly don't recommend getting the full collection unless/until you sample and find it's to your taste). Let me research this and get back to you.
Book 4! That was the hardest slog for me. Book 5 is, um, less sloggy. (I was going to type "better," but SO DEPRESSING.) Are you annoyed with Marius yet, or are you really annoyed? :) (I like Marius! But Book 4 was not a good look for him.)