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Originally Posted by nomadman  Just ordered:
The White Hands and Other Stories by Mark Samuels
The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt
The Island Under the Earth by Avram Davidson
The Doors of his Face, Lamps of his Mouth by Roger Zelazny
The Best of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber |
Quite nice set, that.
The Blue Star is by no means Pratt's best, but it deserves more mention than it gets. Not as complex as
The Well of the Unicorn, but rather meaty, nonetheless. The problem is that it is also not quite as successful as a forward-moving story; it shares some of the same faults as Lindsay's
A Voyage to Arcturus, I'd say... though both are very much worth reading.
As for the Davidson -- that one remains one of my favorites of his work, along with
The Phoenix and the Mirror....