re: #128 BlackPearl
for instance… how many have read
Left Hand of Darkness - LeGuin
Foundation - Asimov
He Walked Around The Horses - Piper
The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
just sayin’
and as always, one’s man’s classical representation of the genre may be someone else’s “meh”.