/lit/ - Literature

>>9757418
Maybe HPL wasn't mentioned because he isn't really a novelist.. He's a short story writer who dabbled with novels, and only one of them, At The Mountains Of Madness, was any good. I agree he's a great descriptive writer, not only of his monsters (the jarring, fragmentary, and contrasting images of them) but of atmospheric scenery. The opening two pages of The Dunwich Horror are downright cinematic.

>>9757403
I enjoyed Canticle a lot, but the third part felt like it dragged a bit. The previous two parts have likeable characters and interesting situations, which I felt the third part lacked. It was also a jarring shift towards being more sci-fi. BTW, Walter Miller also wrote a nice little post-apoc novella, Dark Benediction, along similar lines, but different enough to be interesting.

>>9324865
Philip Jose Farmer looks like one of the new wave SF writers who was well acclaimed and wrote a lot but now is falling into obscurity. He is also somebody who I am always on the cusp of reading, without ever getting around to it. I've never seen anybody discuss him here either.

As for book art, the old Ballantine Adult Fantasy line has a great look. I also liked how the Fantasy Masterworks books from the early 2000s would use art from famous paintings like Caravaggio and John Waterhouse.