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Originally Posted by Greg Anos
meera. what we think of as science fiction is nearly 100 years old. It was born in the pulp magazines, and had different phases. I started this thread to look at authors from the "Cambrian Explosion" of the late 1930's, who published until they died.
I hadn't planned on covering the second wave of the 1960s, such as McCaffrey, Ellison, Zelanzny, Delaney, Le Guin, ect., not because they were not great writers of S/F, but because they constituted a different period in S/F.
Feel free to start a different thread for that period, or later.
(Yes, Bradbury is part of this period. along with Leiber. There are others.)
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As much as I like their works, Mercedes Lackey started publishing in 1989 and Bujold just a bit later.
I tend to think of the writers who got their start back when sales were mostly oriented towards magazines rather than oriented towards novels, remember Campbell worked until 1970 but it's your thread.
To a great extent, one can divide the old masters into three groups, the pulp writers (Doc Smith, Howard and Burroughs are examples), the Campbell crowd oriented towards pure SF (Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke) and more literature oriented (Bradbury).
As I mentioned in passing, it's interesting to think about the old Masters who still have a degree of popularity (Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov and others) verses those who are considered greats, but haven't really aged all that well at least from a popularity point of view. I've certainly read van Vogt, Vance, Simak and Jack Williamson, but they aren't the first names that falls off the lips, even of someone who started reading SF in the early 70's.