/lit/ - Literature

>>12386564

Going to go easy mode and say the Culture. Enough comfy while there's the opportunity to opt into risky/exploration stuff if you want to.

Fantasy would probably be D&D since I just really like that your faith in a god is rewarded in tangible means, and that I do get to pick my afterlife.

On another note, I trolled through the SF & Fantasy Masterworks series and saw a lot of stuff that doesn't get talked about much. Anyone have a gem from there?

>>12053606

As a Baen man, I don't know who makes their covers, but I envy their steady job.


That said, I started reading Dangerous Visions this week, and I have been blown out. I always treated the anthology and scifi short story much as one would a sales pamphlet, but I am quite wrong. I love the little introductions and afterwords that make the community of 1960's SF feel comfy and connected. For once Harlan Ellison takes more than he gives, I chortled heartily at Robert Bloch saying "he is the only organism whose natural habitat is hot water."

Overall a wonderful, wonderful experience! Are there any other good anthologies that mirror this feeling of transformation and insight?