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Top 3 pulp/scifi/fantasy authors?

Mine are:
1. Lord Dunsany
2. Jack Vance
3. Fritz Lieber

>> No.6347394

i've only read the dying earth books by vance, can you recommend anything else by him?

my own three are
gene wolfe
clark ashton smith
michael moorcock

>> No.6347407

>Clive Barker
>HP Lovecraft
>PKD

>> No.6347414

PKD
Chandler
Pynchon

>> No.6347576

Karl Edward Wagner
Henry Kuttner
Leigh Brackett

>> No.6347761

In no particular order:

Robert E. Howard
H.P Lovecraft
Michael Moorcock (nice pic btw OP)

>> No.6347790

>>6347394
>gene wolfe
>pulp

>> No.6347803

Lovecraft
Bradbury
William Gibson.

>> No.6347813

>>6347258
Just chiming in to say that Dunsany is fantastic.

>> No.6348188

This article pretty much covers an entire "Best of" list for fantasy published pre-2000:

http://io9.com/10-authors-who-wrote-gritty-realistic-fantasy-before-g-1695063524

>> No.6348193

1. Alan Campbell
2. China Mieville
3. C.S. Friedman

>> No.6348203

>>6347790
>>6347258
Is this thread a priori about pulp, or is it pulp OR SF OR fantasy?
Assuming the latter:
Lem
Verne
PKD who certainly wrote his share of pulp early on, but some good pulp
If one considers Borges somewhat under this umbrella, then no PKD.

>> No.6348214

PKD
Jim Thompson
Moorcock

>> No.6348405

>Things had grown too hot for Shard, captain of pirates, on all the seas that he knew. The ports of Spain were closed to him; they knew him in San Domingo; men winked in Syracuse when he went by; the two Kings of the Sicilies never smiled within an hour of speaking of him; there were huge rewards for his head in every capital city, with pictures of it for identification--and all the pictures were unflattering.

unf

>> No.6348485

Tolkien
Currently Robert Jordan (come at me bros)
Lovecraft

>> No.6348498
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6348498

1. Philip K. Dick
2. M. John Harrison
3. R.A. Lafferty

>> No.6348507

all PKD is pulp due to the high volume of work he produced for little money
the high rate was because he was paid so little
and he was paid so little because the high rate meant he couldn't consider his work or revise
A lot of his work is bad
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/15/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.philipkdick

>> No.6348509

>>6347258

Meryvyn Peak
Arthur Machen
William Hope Hodgson

>> No.6348514

Stapledon, Lem, Lessing

Re. Wolfe, I was lukewarm towards The Book of the New Sun and Peace but Long Sun's premise seems more appealing to me so hopefully it will win me over.

>> No.6348518

>>6347258
Leiber isn't pulp, he was first published in the science fiction/fantasy magazines of the 30s-50s printed on woodpulp but not pulp
>>6347414
>Chandler
>>6347803
>Bradbury
as above, so below
>>6348498
>Harrison
>Lafferty
bait

>> No.6348520

>>6348507
His prose and characterisation is straight up awful tbh. I love his ideas but the books are so badly written it's hard to enjoy them.

>> No.6348543

>>6348518
>>Harrison
>>Lafferty
>bait

No. I took it from the OP that pulp was welcome but not required. It says fantasy general after all.

>> No.6348613

I don't care if they're pulp or not, so here goes.

HP Lovecraft
Pratchett
China Mieville

>> No.6348700

>>6347394

The lyonesse stuff is preddy gub

>> No.6350250

>>6347790
calm down, faggot
i assumed the thread was just about fantasy in general, given the name of it

>> No.6350282

None of these authors are pulp writers.

>> No.6350288

Le Guin
PKD
Gene Wolfe

>> No.6350301

>H.P Lovecraft
>Harlan Ellison
>Roger Zelazny

On one hand, I rarely discuss or recommend pulp and Sci-Fi authors to people, on the other hand, I probably *enjoy* reading them more than anything else.

>> No.6350394

-Philip K Dick
-Stephen King
-Alfred Bester

>> No.6350440

I'm trying to read The Blade Itself right now and its really dull so far (100 or so pages in)

What do?

>> No.6350449

>>6350440

Read something you enjoy since life is short and you have no obligation to finish any book other than some needless pressure you put on yourself.

>> No.6350463

Clark Ashton Smith
Jack Vance
Edgar Allan Poe

>> No.6350464

>>6350282
did you not read the name of the thread?

>> No.6350489

>>6350463
>Clark Ashton Smith
What's your favorite story by him?

>> No.6350507

>>6347394
Emphyrio

>> No.6352608

Bumperino

>> No.6353073
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6353073

Gene Wolfe is without equal

>> No.6353110

>>6353073
this is true

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6353182

(1) Kurt Vonnegut
(2) Kilgore Trout
(3) Bokonon

Also fuck captcha. Pic very much related.

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>>6353182
>can't tell if new or baiting

>> No.6353250

An entire forty fucking posts and NOBODY mentions Robert E. Howard? For shame.

>> No.6353261

>>6353250
check again buckaroo

>> No.6353398

>>6353241
Funny, that's exactly how I feel about your post, anon-amigo

I'm neither new nor was I baiting, just goofin' I do like Vonnegut, though, have read most of his works