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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
His autistic problem with niggers is literally why I started reading his stories. Some liberal story time Youtube channel was whining about him a few Halloweens back and it made me curious so I finally sat down and read Rats In The Wall and I never looked back.
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Was it Overly Sarcastic Peoductions?
 
The Bovinian Derivative said:
Fuck I didn't know Ellison died, the guy was always upfront and in your face about everything and I really liked that about him.
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Ellison was an litigious asshole, but I agree he was always genuine about what he thought. There's sort of a charm to that. He was the embodiment of the angry old man stereotype.

The Bovinian Derivative said:
I'll have to with Father of Based Cat Naming Lovecraft, he very eloquently tried to warn us about tentacle hentai and niggers.
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That's what I'm saying! Man was a hero to literature. Where would we be if we didn't know about eldrich horrors like Cuthulu and niggers? Deep shit, that's where. The Necronomicon speaks of the BLM cult and the rise of the "queer grotesque negroid menace that serves to awaken the dreaming gods." Damn SJWs took over Miskatonic University and are suppressing this truth.
 
Oh, I forgot about Tom Clancy!

His work was uneven, but a lot of his early stuff was really good. I especially liked The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising.

Somebody, told me the DVD commentary track for The Sum of Fears has Clancy in studio, and he makes it known he was not happy with the adaptation. They turned the antagonists from Arab Nationalists into White Supremeists. Hollywood is gay.
 
John Hawkes, William Gaddis, and Thomas Bernhard.
 
The Bovinian Derivative said:
Fuck I didn't know Ellison died, the guy was always upfront and in your face about everything and I really liked that about him.
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I mean, he was in his mid-eighties, so it isn't like it was a tremendous shock.

Ellison was actually a regular customer of a company I worked for in my teens. Based off the (fairly lengthy) phone conversations I'd have with him at that job, I'd say his abrasiveness wasn't an act, but neither was his intelligence. Dude could talk about anything, and often would. At the time, I hadn't read his work, though I did not too long after. Definitely not one for cheery stuff, was he?
 
Terry Pratchett, I ended up memorizing my library card number from the sheer number of reservations I made just to read the entirety of the Discworld series. Hell, I even did inter-state library borrowing (back in the 90's) to be able to read all of them.

Anne McCaffrey, for all that she's damn near cancelled nowadays, I still have a warm feeling for. And a signed book.

Diana Wynne Jones is another I loved. Dark Lord of Derkholm and Deep Secret are two of my favorites.

I'm kind of surprised he's still hanging in there, but I'll miss Alan Dean Foster when he goes. Dear god has he written a number of series and single books I liked. Spellsinger series, the Flinx series, "Quozl" was a weird one, as was "To The Vanishing Point".
 
So many good authors already mentioned, so I'll just add Donald Westlake, Poul Anderson, Karl Edward Wagner, and Michael McDowell to the list.
 
In no particular order:

Harlan Ellison
Philip K. Dick
Shirley Jackson
Flannery O'Connor
H.P Lovecraft
Robert Heinlein
Terry Pratchett
Charles Beaumont
Jack Finney
 
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