/lit/ - Literature

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SF/FA authors I shelved this year because they are bad or boring:

Avram Davidson - Infuriating style, difficult to parse, constipated. Uses archaic/uncommon words to poor effect, they just clog up his narrative.

Karl Edward Wagner - Bought his rare and out-of-print (but reportedly much-loved) Kane series. It sucks. Reads like wish fulfillment. Main hero is 'morally grey' in the make of Moorecock, but Wagner can't really write. Why would I root for some 'antihero' thief and thug? You aint Fritz Leiber.

Ursula K Leguin - Tried Earthsea but got frustrated that the stakes seem so low (because its YA fiction). I need more danger, sex, and trauma. I'll probably still read this one in full some day. She is a much more capable writer than the other two above.