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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
They are worth reading, though they eventually ran out of steam for me. While they are SF, Anne has never been strong on science, and tends to substitute handwavium in her macguffins. She is a lot closer to a romance writer in terms of plots and characters. (And she did a romance at one point featuring a couple of gay trapeze artists.)
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Dennis
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That would be "Catch Trap" by Marion Zimmer Bradley, not Anne McCaffrey.
After reading Tolkien, I was really into fantasy for awhile. I didn't abandon Sci-Fi, though. But there isn't as much of a difference between the genres as people seem to believe. . Bradley's Darkover books are fantasy novels set in a science fiction universe. Andre Norton's Witch World series has a Science Fiction set-up, as does Robert Heinlein's "Glory Road."
I'm mostly turned off by the Fat Fantasy Trilogies turned out today. They owe more to Dungeons and Dragons than to Tolkien. I do like fantasy from authors like Jonathan Carroll and John Crowley, Guy Gavriel Kay and even Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman.