R.A.Lafferty, R.I.P.S.F.

[Keith Brecher]

At 06:41 AM 3/27/97 -0700, Alan Westrope wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Joe Varo <vjvaro at erie.net> wrote:
>
>>I agree wholeheartedly that most SF is pretty vapid after encountering the
>likes of TRP, JLB, Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov...
>>-- 
Alan Westrope     PGP public key:  http://www.crl.com/~awestrop
><awestrop at crl.com>
><awestrop at nyx.net>
>PGP 0xB8359639:   D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43   7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23
>
>What about Ballard, KW Jeter, Greg Egan, PKD, Lucien Shepherd, and Frank
Herbert? Not everything in what's left of the sci-fi genre is vapid. I'd
place nearly all of Ballard, DUNE, and GREEN EYES in those rarefied climes
inhabited by the likes of Ruggles et al....