Well, on the recommendations from various people on this forum I went out to the nearest B&N and found a lone copy of Steven Erikson's
Memories of Ice. Nearly 1200 pages of paperback. Hope it's as good as you folks say it is. Unfortunately, if I'm not mistaken, it's the third volume in the Malazan series. I'm also hoping that jumping in with the third book won't be a bad thing, which is a definite no-no for some other author's series. Interesting side note: this copy is a UK edition that wasn't even supposed to be in the store. It took 2 cashiers 5 minutes on their computer to come up with a price in US dollars.
As for Holdstock and the other authors that Jasper has been giving me so much flak about, they were nowhere to be found. I asked, specifically, and was told that the stock that B&N stores carry varies from locale to locale. So just because you found it in your city doesn't mean someone else will where they live. Please try to be a little more understanding before you post insulting lines like
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If you have trouble getting any of these authors, you simply haven't tried.
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Also try to consider that some of us have real lives and we do not have unlimited amounts of time to spend on chasing down obscure books.
And, as I said before, I like to be able to thumb through a book before I buy it. If it's not on the shelf, that's sort of hard to do.