Date: 18 Dec 89 06:53:51 PST (Monday)
Subject: Author Lists: John Crowley
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 4-Aug-94

John Crowley, on the other hand, writes wonderful, intricate, rewarding
SF.  For me, his only peer for sheer prose style in SF today is Gene
Wolfe.  But, while Gene Wolfe's prose is just wonderful to behold, John
Crowley has a marvelous deceptive clarity.  It's always readable.  I'm
caught up in the story, hardly noticing how I'm being carried along.  But
later, on closer examination, the harder I look, the deeper it gets.  For
the beginning reader, I'd recommend "Engine Summer", a marvelous story
that's still very approachable.  To me, however, "Little, Big" is his best
work, dealing with many marvelous, quirky characters, the modern world and
the land of Faery.  It does take some some effort to complete, but is
entirely worth it.  I'm still not quite sure what to make of "AEgypt". 
Part of it is probably my obtuseness (and I've only read it once), part of
it is that fact that it's not complete: there is going to a couple more
books to complete the story.  All of his books deserve to be read.

[C] == Story Collection.

Crowley, John	(U.S.A., 12/1/1942- )

Series
	__________Series
		AEgypt (1987)
		Love & Sleep (1994)

Antiquities: Seven Stories (1993) [C]
Beasts (1976)
Beasts/Engine Summer/Little, Big (1991) [O/3N] [BC]
The Deep (1975)
Engine Summer (1979)
The Great Work of Time (1991)
Little, Big (1981)
Novelty (1989) [C] [inc. The Great Work of Time]
Three Novels (1994) [O/3N= The Deep + Beasts + Engine Summer]

Nonfiction
Edited
with Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow
	The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920 (1983)

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