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Originally Posted by leebase
I hear you about older books. As much as I like EE Doc Smith Sci-fi....Neil Stephenson writes far better. But...then again...Asimov's Foundation and Herbert's Dune hold up very well IMHO.
And yes, I am, the type that reads most every book from my favorite authors.
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I think it all depends on what you mean by writes better. Doc Smith, i.e. pulp fiction, wrote to a specific style. I would argue that if we are still reading a work some 80 years after it was written, it's likely well written. That's withstanding the test of time. Maybe it doesn't match Elements of Style, but then again, a lot of my favorite classic authors growing up probably didn't either.