Is it fair to include short stories under novels? - Edit 1
Before modification by Aeryn at 05/12/2009 12:47:54 AM
I understand about omnibus series, but short stories are so different from novels. So what would you pick instead of Borges and Ballard?
Six that come to mind would be (with some likely to quibble about associations):
M. John Harrison, Viriconium (omnibus)
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciónes (collection)
J.G. Ballard, The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (collection, plus it spans several genre modes)
John Gardner, Grendel (reimagining of an Anglo-Saxon poem)
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (omnibus, plus it shares many traits with SF)
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast novels (unfinished series, with no overt magic)
And others would include Tolkien, Robert Holdstock (Mythago Wood), Hope Mirrlees (Lud-in-the-Mist), Poul Anderson (The Broken Sword), David Lindsay (A Voyage to Arcturus), Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus). Oh, and if I wanted to stretch it out more....
Gabo, Pavić, Živković, Kiš, Whittemore, Rickert, Clark Ashton Smith, Danielewski, Pynchon, VanderMeer, Miéville, Ford, Crowley...
That's easily 25 authors there from whose best works I could choose...and that's leaving aside the more "pure" SF works of Dick, Ken Grimwood, Dan Simmons, LeGuin, Bradbury and so forth...
M. John Harrison, Viriconium (omnibus)
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciónes (collection)
J.G. Ballard, The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (collection, plus it spans several genre modes)
John Gardner, Grendel (reimagining of an Anglo-Saxon poem)
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (omnibus, plus it shares many traits with SF)
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast novels (unfinished series, with no overt magic)
And others would include Tolkien, Robert Holdstock (Mythago Wood), Hope Mirrlees (Lud-in-the-Mist), Poul Anderson (The Broken Sword), David Lindsay (A Voyage to Arcturus), Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus). Oh, and if I wanted to stretch it out more....
Gabo, Pavić, Živković, Kiš, Whittemore, Rickert, Clark Ashton Smith, Danielewski, Pynchon, VanderMeer, Miéville, Ford, Crowley...
That's easily 25 authors there from whose best works I could choose...and that's leaving aside the more "pure" SF works of Dick, Ken Grimwood, Dan Simmons, LeGuin, Bradbury and so forth...