What brought this up? I adored Cabell when I was in high school, not for his plots, but for his hypnotic language, for his worlds that were bigger and older and more complicated than my world, for everything I liked about fantasy and much of what I liked about science fiction (and then there was that obscenity thing, about the most absurd obscenity charge ever; the prosecutor must have forgotten to read the book prior to bringing the charge). The only one of his books I still own is Beyond Life.
Ah. I found Cabell the same way I found most writers in those days: systematically going through the shelves of the Worthington Public Library for anything I hadn't read yet that didn't look boring. Since I was a methodical child and teenager, I'm much better read in authors whose names begin with A-O than those whose names begin with (let us say) P-Z.
I never liked H. Beam Piper; it's possible the Worthington Public Library didn't own Little Fuzzy in the sixties and seventies.
I'm not sure; I was told about it by friends, and it was worth discussing because it was available. I think some of the friends already knew about it, but I can't from this distance be sure.
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I never liked H. Beam Piper; it's possible the Worthington Public Library didn't own Little Fuzzy in the sixties and seventies.
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(I'm under 60. By several years. Almost 5.)
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