/lit/ - Literature

>>13497339
>Favorite wordsmiths
Zelazny Zelazny Zelazny
>The Doors of his Face, the Lamps of his Mouth:
>Venus at night is a field of sable waters. On the coasts, you can never tell where the sea ends and the sky begins. Dawn is like dumping milk into an inkwell. First, there are erratic curdles of white, then streamers. Shake the bottle for a gray colloid, then watch it whiten a little more. All of a sudden you’ve got day. Then start heating the mixture.

>Lord of Light:
>Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?
>Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

I swear to God if you dumb faggots don't go read Comes Now the Power RIGHT FUCKING NOW I'm gonna FLIP my FUCKING TENDIES REEEEEE In all seriousness, it's the best piece of writing I've ever read and only like 8 pages
Current read is pic related. It's very comfy
>>13497662
Show writing
>>13498078
>Based Hernstrom
Some anon turned me on to him last week. His Vance pastiche in that one was particularly good

Do you think this could ever be successfully adapted for the screen (or stage)?

How would you handle all the Sumerian shit, I can't see people waiting around for the librarian monologues which go on for quite a while. It is pretty essential to the story right?

Also how would you handle the bit where YT gets railed ?

Just thinking after watching the first two episodes of Altered Carbon...