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Same here, except I was intrigued enough to buy the box set, so I have all three of them, sitting hidden behind another row of books...

Oof. Bio of a Space Tyrant. As a kid, I missed the creepy themes in the Xanth books and I chased after new books by Piers Anthony. I...

The Thomas Covenant books were what convinced me that I needed to have a protagonist, where I cared whether they lived or died. Thomas...

I seem to remember he did troops for all of the classes that get them in AD&D, and also for nonhumans, so that they would be...

I had the same thought, regarding problematic people and content. Also, I think the literary reputation of the Thomas Covenant books has...

Ah, good catch. Yes, I was thrown off by the middle initial. I look forward to seeing more of his writing on this stuff.

I read Anthony pretty heavily in high school (mid to late 80's) and even a little into college. The pun based humor was amusing enough...

I watched some seagulls flying between a real paradox looking for food to steal a few days ago.

It's a real paradox!

I used to say there was a line of, uh, "prurience" in SF/F: on one end was Isaac Asimov, then it went for a ways to the middle, and then...

But what about KSmall Beer Demon Hunters?

While I've never heard anything bad about Stephen R. Donaldson himself, the rape scene in Lord Foul's Bane is much less palatable to...

I didn't recognize the name, so looked him up on Wikipedia. He's the author of "The Universal Brotherhood", which I owned but never ran...

Yikes. Didn't know about this until you posted. Also, I never loved the books as much as everyone. I liked them.