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Lord Dunsany towers over the field. To my taste, waiting on reading him is like postponing Shakespeare for a bunch of generic Jacobean...

Heh, yeah, even then Morris was evoking the past. Lord Dunsany is so good in my book. Eminently readable, painting fantastical views...

You seem to have assumed I was suggesting they were Westerns. I was not. I was noting this was a case of a crossover between the...

Okay…this whole “I have to read your mind to participate in your thread” thing stinks.

I fully agree, and I normally go this way. I always have dozen of books of different topics laying around. But as I said, it's been a...

That is the main reason I have like 10 unfinished books right now - not counting the ones I completely DNF. But these books I feel I...

Yeah. I do the same. It seems to come in waves. Fiction for a time then non-fiction. Forcing things almost never works out well for me...

I’m a very big believer in feeding your brain what it wants to read, within very broad limits. I’ve got times when one or more of my...

I've found it difficult to get through Neuromancer. Definitely not my writing style, but for some reason I'm having a hard time getting...

In fact there's a fairly well known example of this (mixed with horror): Penny Dreadful. Though its mostly set in Victorian England...

There's also, in the past at least, been a tendency to focus very heavily on what would be read as single-genre things, enough so that...

We pause here to wave at Mr. Calvin Morris, the inexplicable cowboy in Dracula.

To me it’s not about tough fits, you can make most combos work. It’s more about easier vs harder to explain what you mean by a given...

One of the worst misconceptions I deal with in my line of work involves fossil fueled power plants. The assumption is that coal or...