Mercurius
Legend
I read Spin shortly after it came out and really liked it, but never got to the 2nd and 3rd books. I'd re-read it and the next two if I didn't have so many other books to read. I've got a copy of Mysterium and it is on my to-read list (love gnostic stuff).A few scattered thoughts:
For Robert Charles Wilson, try the Spn trilogy, Darwinia, and Burning Paradise. I think his stuff hangs together best in those. (I also love Nysteeium, but it depends on how much you’d like some Gnosticism with your cross time.)
Bookpilled, is that you? He said the same thing, essentially. I've had my eye out fo Instrumentality of Man, but copies are expensive and rare. I do have a couple other short story collections, which include some of the same stories.Skip Norstrilia for now. Cordwainer Smith’s short stories - look for Scanners Live In Vain, The Game of Rat and Srsgon, Golden the Ship Was Oh! Oh! Oh!, and like that. The Instrumentality of Man collection is best if you can lay hands on it.
Yeah, I've heard it isn't quite as good. I almost read it right after Black Easter, but wanted to try some other flavors.I found the Black Easter sequel disappointing. But some others don’t. Give it a try, for sure.
After I finish the Silverberg book, the top of my to-read list includes:
Ice by Ana Kavan
Electric Forest by Tanith Lee (or possibly Don't Drink the Sun)
Camp Concentration or 334 by Thomas Disch
Beyond Apollo by Barry Malzberg
What Entropy Means to Me by George Alec Effinger
Knight of the Swords by Michael Moorcock
Tons of others, too, but those are the ones queued up.
I definitely want to read more of Blish, Silverberg, and Wilson, along with dozens of others, but am trying to read some of the authors that I haven't read yet.