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fjtorres · 06-20-2017, 04:26 PM

Murray Leinster - Sidewise in Time: Alternate reality stories
First Contact - as the title says

Gordon Dixon - Dorsai cycle: Starship Troopers birthed the modern military SF subgenre but Dorsai molded it

Stanley Weinbaum - A martian odyssey: before Doc Smith set the tropes for space opera, Weinbaum was the big name with his travelogue SF. (Stories about a journey through strange worlds where the setting is the story.) Farmer's Green Odyssey and (to an extent) the World of Tier series followed in his footsteps. So did Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama and Harrison's Deathworld 2. Forward's Deagon's egg, too. Not much practiced these days but every once in a while a jewel pops up.

L. Sprague de Camp : the Harold Shea stories set the tone for a zillion portal fantasies like SpellSinger, Her Majesty's Wizard, the Warlock in spite of himself (which is really SF using fantasy tropes). Also, if Darkness Falls.

Chad Oliver: one of the earliest, if not the earliest practitioner of "soft SF", in this case anthropological SF. SHADOWS IN THE SUN, for one.

Raymond Bradbury as cited.

Try this: a school for gifted children that is really a cover for a group of young mutants with superhuman abilities, secretly helping change the world while hiding in fear of persecution.
Nope, not the XMEN.
Wilmar H. Shiras: CHILDREN OF THE ATOM. Originally published as a series of shorter stories, later reworked into a novel in 1952.

Others who didn't quite create or shape subgenres but left us a trove of emulated excellence:
Poul Anderson (Three hearts and three Lions, Operation Chaos, There will be Time, plus the more popular Polesothechnic League and Flandry stories).
A. E. VanVogt (Voyage of the Space Beagle, SLAN, Weapon Shops of Isher),
Keith Laumer (Retief!, Imperium)

Lots of goodies in the realms of SF backlist.

06-20-2017, 04:26 PM	#11
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Murray Leinster - Sidewise in Time: Alternate reality stories First Contact - as the title says Gordon Dixon - Dorsai cycle: Starship Troopers birthed the modern military SF subgenre but Dorsai molded it Stanley Weinbaum - A martian odyssey: before Doc Smith set the tropes for space opera, Weinbaum was the big name with his travelogue SF. (Stories about a journey through strange worlds where the setting is the story.) Farmer's Green Odyssey and (to an extent) the World of Tier series followed in his footsteps. So did Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama and Harrison's Deathworld 2. Forward's Deagon's egg, too. Not much practiced these days but every once in a while a jewel pops up. L. Sprague de Camp : the Harold Shea stories set the tone for a zillion portal fantasies like SpellSinger, Her Majesty's Wizard, the Warlock in spite of himself (which is really SF using fantasy tropes). Also, if Darkness Falls. Chad Oliver: one of the earliest, if not the earliest practitioner of "soft SF", in this case anthropological SF. SHADOWS IN THE SUN, for one. Raymond Bradbury as cited. Try this: a school for gifted children that is really a cover for a group of young mutants with superhuman abilities, secretly helping change the world while hiding in fear of persecution. Nope, not the XMEN. Wilmar H. Shiras: CHILDREN OF THE ATOM. Originally published as a series of shorter stories, later reworked into a novel in 1952. Others who didn't quite create or shape subgenres but left us a trove of emulated excellence: Poul Anderson (Three hearts and three Lions, Operation Chaos, There will be Time, plus the more popular Polesothechnic League and Flandry stories). A. E. VanVogt (Voyage of the Space Beagle, SLAN, Weapon Shops of Isher), Keith Laumer (Retief!, Imperium) Lots of goodies in the realms of SF backlist. Last edited by fjtorres; 06-20-2017 at 04:28 PM.