I have very little patience for fantasy. It always feels like a bit of a cheat.
I'd like to use the Clarke quote here!
I didn't really read fantasy until I hit 13 (before that tended to SF), but I someone moved from Wydham to Eddings, and then ended up playing D&D, which ended up with a few years reading the (then emerging) D&D novels (and then horror like King and Koontz) before I swung back.
I "regret" spending so much time down the tie-in fiction cul de sac (and parts of the fantasy avenue), but we are creatures of our time, and we make decisions at the time.
(I do regret reading Jordan and Goodkind, but that's a different story).
I didn't realise Leigh Brackett was his wife. I do have the one book they collaborated on though, "Stark and the Star Kings".
That one might be in the book I procured (The Gollanz Gateway Ombibus), listed as "The Star King". And somewhere I have the Star Wolves trilogy. Of course, I buy books faster than I can read them. I'll get to them or die first.
What little I've read of that (mostly pre-war) era suggest the SF/Fantasy/Horror divide was less obvious then, and it's one of the reasons I chase older stuff (although it's something I have come to realise)
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I'd like to use the Clarke quote here!
I didn't really read fantasy until I hit 13 (before that tended to SF), but I someone moved from Wydham to Eddings, and then ended up playing D&D, which ended up with a few years reading the (then emerging) D&D novels (and then horror like King and Koontz) before I swung back.
I "regret" spending so much time down the tie-in fiction cul de sac (and parts of the fantasy avenue), but we are creatures of our time, and we make decisions at the time.
(I do regret reading Jordan and Goodkind, but that's a different story).
I didn't realise Leigh Brackett was his wife. I do have the one book they collaborated on though, "Stark and the Star Kings".
That one might be in the book I procured (The Gollanz Gateway Ombibus), listed as "The Star King". And somewhere I have the Star Wolves trilogy. Of course, I buy books faster than I can read them. I'll get to them or die first.
What little I've read of that (mostly pre-war) era suggest the SF/Fantasy/Horror divide was less obvious then, and it's one of the reasons I chase older stuff (although it's something I have come to realise)