/lit/ - Literature

>>20659487
I know, my surprise was that this is level 9. I mean it's a book of weird but not particularly creepy drawings with indecipherable text. It's weird, but underwhelming as the creep factor goes.

I'm disappointed that this iceberg doesn't include The Iron Dream or Gas, Sewer, Electric or The Baby Jesus Dildo, and I'm extra disappointed that it swerves from some pretty decent extreme/bizarre fiction at 7 to bullshit occult faggotry at 8 (and not even cool shit like Liber Null or anything buy A.O.Spare), to some experiments in cryptography/baffling art experiments at 9.

>>12536347
I nominate The Iron Dream, also known as Lord of the Swastika. I book about if Hitler moved to America and became a pulp sci-fi author instead of the Fürher. Just look at this beautiful cover.

>>9508286
I was surprised too, given his grumpy persona, but he wrote a whole introduction
>They could not have been more offended, confused, enraged and startled... There was a moment of stunned silence... and then an eruption of angry voices from all over the fifteen-hundred-person audience. The kids in their Luke Skywalker pajamas (cobbled up from older brother's castoff karate gi) and the retarded adults spot-welded into their Darth Vader freight-masks howled with fury. But I stood my ground, there on the lecture platform at the World Science Fiction Convention, and I repeated the heretical words that had sent them into animal hysterics:

>"Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!"

>Auditorium monitors moved in, truncheons ready to club down anyone foolish enough to try jumping the lecture platform, and finally there was relative silence. And I head scattered voices screaming from the back of the room,"Who?" And I said, "Yes. Who!"

>(It was like that old Abbott and Costello routine: Who's on first? No, Who's on third; What's on first.)

>After a while we got it all sorted out and they understood that when I said Who I didn't mean whom, I meant Who... Doctor Who... the most famous science fiction character on British television. The renegade Time Lord, the far traveler through Time and Space, the sword of justice from the planet Gallifrey, the scourge of villains and monsters the galaxy over. The one and only, the incomparable, the bemusing and bewildering Doctor Who, the humanistic defender of Good and Truth, whose exploits put to shame those of Kimball Kinnison, Captain Future and pantywaist nerds like Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.

>My hero! Doctor Who!

>For the American reading (and television-viewing) audience (and in this sole, isolated case I hope they're one and the same) Doctor Who is a new factor in the equation of fantastic literature. Since 1963 the Doctor and his exploits have been a consistent element of British culture. But we're only now being treated to the wonderful universes of Who here in the States. For those of us who were exposed to both the TV series on BBC and the long series of Doctor Who novels published in Great Britian, the time of solitary proselytizing is at an end. All we need to do now is thrust a Who novel into the hands of the unknowlegable, or drag the unwary to a TV set and turn it on as the good Doctor goes through his paces. That's all it takes. Try this book and you'll understand.

Only other time I've seen him praise something is on pic related

>>8910009
Better?

>>7303065
I read this because I thought it was an interesting concept, but it was lazily written and generally sucked. And no, ironic writing does not excuse shoddy work.

>not posting the superior alternative history

>>6475671
he did, sorta

Anderson is there as a beard so they can say "see we want fun works not literary shmitery nobody reads outside ivory towers"