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by swtrs 2619 days ago
Wow, just this morning I picked up the first half of The Book of the New Sun as my intro to his work.
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He could evoke places, moods, and the vastness of time. He seamlessly blended fantasy and far-future science fiction into something with the weight and texture of mythology. He is gone, but his writing will endure.
Probably one of the best vocabularians in the entire genre, also.