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Date: 2013-09-14 05:33 pm (UTC)The Lyonnesse series (Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, and Madouc) were my first exposure to Vance at novel length after being wowed by "The Moon Moth". The first book in particular has a great, spooky, creepy trip through the wilderness that struck me as a series of fairy stories strung together, and I didn't mind that at all.
"Dinner in Audoghast" is kind of similar to "Flowers of Edo" in that it's a historical fantasy in a non-European setting, medieval Ghana for the former, Meiji Japan for the latter. Thinking on it, they are kind of similar in other ways, featuring more or less crazy people with visions of the future, the invasion of the Almoravids and World War II, I guess, respectively.