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Originally Posted by HarryT
I know he is. The "was" referred to his influence on the SF field, not his life. I'm not so sure that he's currently an influential writer. What do you think?
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Ahhh, interesting question.
Was he influential, or
is he influential?
Do any school-age children who now discover him in the literature anthologies find him influential?
Or - given that one accepts that he has been influential in the past - does that reflect only a past influence?
Don