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I'm going to give a list of Old Master writers one needs to read to get a well rounded feel of the era's writing.
And not just novels. In many cases, the important writers did their best works at shorter lengths.
Obviously, the "big guns":
Heinlein
Clarke,
Asimov
But there is a lot of gold in the so-called lesser writers of the era:
A.E.Van Vogt
Theodore Sturgeon
Eric Frank Russell
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger)
Poul Anderson
Alfred Bester
Jack Vance
Mack Reynolds
Fredric Brown
William Tenn
Hal Clement
(This is off the top of my head, by no means exhaustive!)
OMG I forgot Kutttner and C.L.Moore!
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