...& like Lazaras, it rises! (read: SF never died)

[Jason Witherspoon]

At 5:22 PM -0800 3/28/97, Tony Elias wrote:
>Also, I'm told, have-the-book-but-it-still-sits-silently-on-my-shelf that
>Haruki Murakami's _Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World_ is also
>an exceptional and recent ('91) SF novel.

YES.  I wouldn't even really tar this one w/the "SF novel" tag, as it's
more of a, gee, literate futuro-fantasy a la Calvino or the previously
unmentioned (as far as I've noticed), brilliant _Little, Big_ by John
Crowley ('course, I read it when I was 15, but it was head & shoulders over
the other "upper echelon" "speculative fiction" I was reading in a vain
attempt to stay interested in the genre).

Theodore Sturgeon, anyone?  Or the _Starmaker_ guy?  Alfred Bester?

                                         Jason Witherspoon

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