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/lit/'s opinion on this book? General sci-fi thread, also.

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>Fan-Fiction

>> No.4176818

Ugh. Jeff Vandermeer. I finished City of Saints and Madmen the other day and the smugness inherent in his writing is just awful. He's constructed a world that is literally founded on references to Borges and Lovecraft and Sade and every other 'fringe' writer he read in college. He's like a bookend to China Mieville.

>> No.4176834

>>4176818
But at least it's something different.

>> No.4176850

>>4176834
Yeah, I dunno why I lashed out like that. Mieville and Vandermeer are gifted writers (and in the genre world, too: a rarity) but sometimes they pull shit that really makes me mad. In 'Draden, in Love' Vandermeer takes a page or two to summarize Sade's 'Justine' and pass it off as his own. It's this kind of smugness that doesn't add anything of value to a story, except to cue the reader into some bogus inside joke.

Ambergris is a great setting, though. And it sounds like in subsequent novels he makes it more his own.

>> No.4176856

Wake me up when he or someone else writes Wookiees Vs. Predator.