>>and Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon held me for a long, long while.
>
>Did Keyes ever do this as a novel? I read the short story version (and I'd
>agree on well good). Did he ever write anything else?
>
>But with Aldiss and Ballard, aren't we close to talking New Wave here?
>Moorcock, Disch, all the whole _New Worlds_ crew?
>
And why not, Robin? Great stuff, almost all... Aldiss has seldom
disappointed, & I confess the ballard I enjoyed the most was Vermillion
Sands, but some of his later work in SF was terrifically sardonic...
Moorcock has written some amazing stuff, among so much...
And then there are a lot of recent writers, such as, say, Gwynneth Jones,
Iain Banks, eg, who demonstrate the continuing maturing of the field...
Doug
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