Comments on: Vance : books :: Pollard : music http://dfan.org/blog/2009/01/23/vance-books-pollard-music/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dfan says» Blog Archive » Another Spewer: Frank Zappa http://dfan.org/blog/2009/01/23/vance-books-pollard-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 dfan says» Blog Archive » Another Spewer: Frank Zappa Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:21:28 +0000 http://dfan.org/blog/?p=22#comment-1199 [...] far the category has consisted of Jack Vance, Robert Pollard, and William Vollmann, and I just thought of another: Frank [...] [...] far the category has consisted of Jack Vance, Robert Pollard, and William Vollmann, and I just thought of another: Frank [...]

]]> By: Darius K. http://dfan.org/blog/2009/01/23/vance-books-pollard-music/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Darius K. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:37:48 +0000 http://dfan.org/blog/?p=22#comment-10 Warren Ellis in comics is kind of like that. Except for the "largely intuitive" part, I guess. Warren Ellis in comics is kind of like that. Except for the “largely intuitive” part, I guess.

]]> By: dfan http://dfan.org/blog/2009/01/23/vance-books-pollard-music/comment-page-1/#comment-8 dfan Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:57:06 +0000 http://dfan.org/blog/?p=22#comment-8 Oh yeah, Dick! I actually have never read anything by him, although of course I have seen around eighty-seven movies based on his books. I'll have to try out a couple. From what I know of him, it totally sounds like he fits in this category. The only Leiber I've read is some Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books a long time ago. They were fun. They're so much his best-known work that it's easy to forget he wrote anything else. Oh yeah, Dick! I actually have never read anything by him, although of course I have seen around eighty-seven movies based on his books. I’ll have to try out a couple. From what I know of him, it totally sounds like he fits in this category.

The only Leiber I’ve read is some Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books a long time ago. They were fun. They’re so much his best-known work that it’s easy to forget he wrote anything else.

]]> By: Iain http://dfan.org/blog/2009/01/23/vance-books-pollard-music/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Iain Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:09:06 +0000 http://dfan.org/blog/?p=22#comment-7 The two other authors (both mainly SF) I tend to put in the same mental category are Philip K Dick and Fritz Leiber. Leiber wasn't all that prolific, but otherwise they both fit your list of requirements pretty well. I'm still not sure you'd like them, though. Differences between them—Dick always wears his heart on his sleeve, Vance is detached and ironic (although his opinions tend to show through, maybe not always in a way he's aware of). Leiber varies his tone and loves to lay on the atmosphere with a trowel, Vance doesn't but that's okay because his standard relaxed tone is awesome. In other fields, maybe Robert Rodriguez? The two other authors (both mainly SF) I tend to put in the same mental category are Philip K Dick and Fritz Leiber. Leiber wasn’t all that prolific, but otherwise they both fit your list of requirements pretty well. I’m still not sure you’d like them, though.

Differences between them—Dick always wears his heart on his sleeve, Vance is detached and ironic (although his opinions tend to show through, maybe not always in a way he’s aware of). Leiber varies his tone and loves to lay on the atmosphere with a trowel, Vance doesn’t but that’s okay because his standard relaxed tone is awesome.

In other fields, maybe Robert Rodriguez?

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