--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
<jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@
wrote:
> >
> > Marianne wrote:
> >
> > "It's just my strange taste for apocalypses, I
suppose."
> >
> > Some time ago, I went through a period where a
lot of what I was
reading
> > or viewing dealt with end of the world
scenarios.
>
> If you haven't read Fritz Leiber's _The Wanderer_, I
highly
recommend
> it. A real master.
And his horror novels CONJURE WIFE, YOU'RE ALL ALONE
(particularly), and OUR LADY OF DARKNESS are quite close to
our subject matter here
(San Francisco regionalists will need to read the last)...as
is, most particularly among his sf novels, THE BIG TIME. I've
mentioned his Spillane parody, "The Night He Cried," from
time to time, while his Spillanesque horror "I'm Looking for
Jeff" has, I believe, also come up...but better yet is his
very important early story "Smoke Ghost," as noir as you
could possibly want. His similarly influential sf story
"Coming Attraction" not too shabby in this regard,
either.
Todd Mason
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