Ugh. There are at least two of those that i think need heavy caveats on the recommendation. (I'm fond of four of the five, myself, but even so i wouldn't recommend Lord of Light without a lot of caveats about the racism and misogyny. And i wouldn't recommend Snow Crash at all.)
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(I love Zelazny -- love love love -- but he was definitely ... who he was, for good and for ill. I'm careful inflicting him on people.)
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This is definitely one of the best first paragraphs in all of SFF, though.pic.twitter.com/V7qWypTWVH
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Also, for learning about occulty shit, FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM by Eco is a must, and i'd also say read basically anything by Patricia McKillip.
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i couldn't say whether the Eco is good for learning anything, i came by it late so reading it was just this delightfully cozy exercise in "hahaha i have literally met all of these fucking people, what a bunch of jackasses, i miss them"
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McKillip won't teach you anything formal about magick or the occult, but for my money there is literally no better author in the entire fucking world who is better at conveying how the true numinous should FEEL.
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ooh that sounds pleasing. i don't thiiiink i've read any of her
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She is in some sense a one-trick pony as an author, but it's a REALLY GOOD TRICK. Her novels are all about the power of stories and they are amazing.
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Start with ALPHABET OF THORN or THE BOOK OF ATRIX WOLFE, probably.
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She's one of my very favorite authors. Also all her covers are done by Kinuko Y. Craft, who's one of the best illustrators in the world. Here's the ALPHABET OF THORN cover:pic.twitter.com/Wpabbpj9Ji
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goodness that's communicative. did a lot to convince me that someone involved in this production knows some stuff, in under half a second
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Yeahhhhhhh. Kinuko Craft's work is all like that, pretty much, and also literally everything in that illustration is in the book, one way or another.
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