*SPAM?* [HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: 1.2.3 Literary Sources & Influences/ the drive-by back up

[Sean Dwyer]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:25:26PM +0000, Barry Arrowsmith wrote:

> On my shelves I've approx 1,200 SF titles (about 12 fantasy - and that 
> includes the HP series) and I'd estimate 60% were first published in 
> the last 7 years. Let me know what your tastes are and I'll recommend 
> some titles for you to try. There's even (God help us) a series that 
> has SHIPping as it's main theme. True love in the Spaceways. Ugh. 

I'm curious, Barry: have the styles of Gibson and Stephenson spawned
noteworthy genres/writers? This is the sort of thing most difficult for an
antipodean to gauge. And is Gaiman truly in a class of his own still?

Sean, desperate for some SF/Fantasy freedom.

-- 
When all you have are foxes, everything looks like a henhouse.