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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Sigh, I feel old. It's pretty hard for me to consider anything written after I graduated from college as "Old Masters"
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I agree. My *personal* definition of the Old Masters mentioned in this thread title would be authors that worked with or were influenced by John W. Campbell: Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. Van Vogt, Ray Bradbury, Fred Pohl and so on. Guys from the thirties to the fifties.
I don't think of Doc Smith, Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Lovecraft or Fritz Leiber as part of the group either, though I read all of them (well, not Doc Smith).