And here's...Mind Meld

[ellen_datlow]

lThe Forgotten Books of science fiction/fantasy/horror

Comments

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Great list Ellen.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thanks Charles. There are so many other OP collections that should be available --what I named are a drop in the bucket.

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Yup, agree with you on that one. Heck, even your own YBFH volumes...

Wow! That was quick!

[(Anonymous)]

It was just posted!

Thanks again so much for playing along. Great titles all around...

John D.
SF Signal

Re: Wow! That was quick!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, you emailed me :-)

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

I will second Cupp's choice of The Goat Without Horns, and further amend it to include anything by Thomas Burnett Swann, who was a brilliant and elegantly poetic writer, sadly forgotten these days. I have all his works but one, Queens Walk in the Dust, which was only ever released as a very limited edition; copies go for upwards of $200 now.

Never cared for Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, but I don't care much for swords and sorcery stuff, so I admit I'm biased. I did like Conjure Wife. I haven't read Night's Black Agents (although I've read "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes"), so I'll have to find a copy somewhere. And Charles Beaumont is another one of my favorite writers.

Other stuff on the lists I ditto:

E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros
T. E. D. Klein's The Ceremonies (and his stories, too)
Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow
Philip Jose Farmer's A Feast Unknown

[jplangan.livejournal.com]

Great list, Ellen--I love Leiber's stories; you're absolutely right, the best of them don't age.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

. . . a trip down memory lane, timeless. :)

[lonesome-crow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for championing the Beaumont. "Miss Gentilbelle" is an all-time favorite.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. Beaumont was so incredible. According to wiki (I think that's where I read it)...it's based on his mother.

[blades-of-grass.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link and for the list - I know and love many of the books, but there are even more to find and enjoy.
PS. The Emancipator trilogy by Ray Aldridge is long overdue for a reprint.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Since I mostly read short stories, that's what I personally concentrated on for my piece but there are lots of books out there that should be available.