#also she wrote an ep of Blake's 7 and you gotta admire that

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Tanith Lee was why I decided to go to art college! Not even joking! She studied art, and I wanted to write like someone who had studied art, not like someone with an English degree.

(And I stand by that decision, although my particular art college sucked balls and I don't write like Tanith Lee, it's simply not my style, in the end. But it broadened my horizons.)

My favourites are Eva Fairdeath - which would kill many tumblr users - and Tales from the Flat Earth, which are like the best kind of fucked-up mythology. I used to know which second hand book shops in London were the best sources for Tanith Lee books, of which there were a seemingly inexhaustible variety, but were sadly rare, even then. There was a particularly great place on the end of Holloway Road that specialised in scifi and fantasy, I wonder if it's still there...

How the heck is there not more talk about Tanith Lee??

Like my gosh, the woman wrote, according to her wiki, 90 books, over 300 short stories, two World Fantasy Awards, and was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award/Augus Derleth Award and wrote for tv shows.

Like, it's not like she just wrote a heck ton but wasn't very good! She was clearly very good she won awards, and i've read a swath of her stuff across different genres and really enjoyed most of it. I mean that even if not each one has been my cup of tea I can at least appreciate the skill and quite a lot I have truly enjoyed. She's got great prose and style and imagination. Not everything obviously was a banger, but they've all been at least well written, which is harder to come by in writing than you might think.

But nobody ever seems to talk about her?? And I feel like the fantasy crowd on here would really enjoy her stuff. The woman has done stuff in pretty much every genre from what I can see, but I never see her listed on fantasy authors like Clive Barker or Diana Wynne Jones or Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett or Diane Duane even though she was writing at the same time and has a similar sort of '80s Doing Cool Stuff with Fantasy vibe' I feel like people who like those authors would enjoy though she's very much her own style of author.

Anyway this was really just me putting out a rant that such a prolific and talented author seems to have fallen by the wayside and I think it's really a shame

Heck she even did a witch-queen fighting againt vampire Snow White a whole decade before Neil Gaiman did his phenomenal Snow Glass Apples and it's also excellent, give a look here: