FictionSome friends have put unfair pressure on me to give fiction another stab. Grrrr. There are some authors I can tolerate- George MacDonald Fraser, for instance. But he's done so much research it might as well be a textbook. Only more fun. The series my friends have recommended (read, "insisted on") are classics in the speculative literature field.It's been a hard plow. One of my gripes about fiction in general and the fantasy/SF subgenre in particular is that the things that...