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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I'd amend that to "He was a damned good pulp author". He was able to turn out publishable quality work on demand and to deadline. As with any pulp writer, the quality varied widely. For instance, I think the fantasies he did for John W. Campbell's Unknown Worlds hold up, as do works like Fear and Typewriter in the Sky, but the "Old Doc Methuselah" stories are just dreadful.
I don't consider him a damned good SF author, only a competent one.
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All I'm saying, Dennis, is that I personally enjoyed "Battlefield Earth", and it's a book that I still occasionally re-read. The movie that was made from it, on the other hand, was utter garbage.