>being on /tg/
>not reading Jack Vance
I'm just here to yell at you guys.
What's your excuse?
>>43526532
I'm not a plebeian.
>>43526588
Go to bed /lit/, the adults are talking.
>>43526532
>implying I need an excuse
>>43526532
I liked the Dragon Masters. That would be a great basis for a campaign setting.
>>43526532
I've read Jack Vance. My Pnume is better than your Phung.
>>43526532
Pic related is a pretty good description of /tg/ anyway.
>>43526532
We don't just read Vance, we roleplay in his worlds. Step up, playa.
Thank you Jack, you old teller of strange tales.
>>43526532
His work is good. I find it interesting to take ideas from
>>43526532
>people here
>actually reading anything that isn't Warhammer tie-in novels
People here are nonreading plebs.
>>43527065
Before we descend entirely to memes, I read M. John Harrison's fantasy stuff lately and loved it. Anyone else on /tg/ a fan?
>>43526532
My excuse is I still blame him for what his magic system did to tabletop
>>43526762
Does /lit/ hate Vance?
He's a stylist. And bar, like, the magical realists, about the most high-brow you could get while still being in the fantasy ghetto.
Man, /lit/ is even shit at being snobbish, and that's the only thing they are supposed to be good at.
>>43532112
I liked Viriconium but it was ponderous and slow.
>>43532293
>high-brow fantasy
I think that crown goes to Gene Wolfe, no?
>>43532732
Really? I think some of the Virconium stories are really good. The Lamia and Lord Cromis is my favourite.
>>43532761
Jesus Christ, no.
>>43532766
Well I read it when I was a teenager many years ago, so maybe I didn't have the patience to appreciate it fully. I should read it again.
>>43526532
because it's shit son
>>43533047
I mean books are always YMMV but yeah, I really kind of rate Harrison as a writer of fantasy after reading it. A lot of the stories work well as a commentary on the genre as well as self-contained story, and the kind of derelict morbidity of the Virconium setting (which is intentionally left indefinite and contradictory) is really well conveyed.
I have only read a short collection - Virconium Nights. But The Lamia and Lord Cromis was very good, as was the initial story about a gang fight, and Strange Great Sins was also pretty good.
It's on my list, but I want to read a bunch of classic Greek stuff before I move on to old fantasy.
>>43532293
/lit/ hates anything to do with fantasy and, I'm pretty sure sci-fi as well, for not being "true" or "high enough" art, i.e. it's not patrician enough so they can't wank to it.
>>43532293
/lit/ likes Wolfe, Vance, and Peake though
>>43537343
>/lit/ hates anything
Could have stopped there.
>>43537725
Valid point but that goes without saying.
>>43537516
Le Guin, Tolkien, Lieber, and sometimes Heinlein and Asimov are well liked there too.
