/lit/ - Literature

>>10404968
Well, In some ways he is, but I find think CAS and HPL complement eachother well. Clarke tends to vividly describe his demons, ghouls and monsters with his poet's vocabulary, while Lovecraft interestingly avoids outright descriptions, or skirts around the malevolence by hints, rumors and suggestions, and this allows for some more compelling plots. It's a source of wonder for me they were writing for the same lowly pulp rag in the thirties. As for Robert Howard, he's at least a step below them.

>>10036850
Ol' Clark will be there when you're ready. Like any short story collections they're best read between other things. There's no real reading order, but The Tale Of Satampra Zeiros and The Abominations of Yondo feel like good introductions. Harlan Ellison was nuts about The City Of The Singing Flame and that's a great SF story.

>>9861861
When I linked a blog post on SFFG a few months ago it got about sixty hits over a couple of hours, evening GMT. SFFG is fairly popular for being one thread among many on the quieter part of 4chan.