Bradbury is definitely very, very good when he's on form. He actually did write some, uh, poetry.
recently consecutively re-read Asimov & Arthur C Clarke - Arthur came out in front by a long chalk. Asimov was far too quaint and mechanical.
Cordwainer Smith, EE "Doc" Smith anyone? :-))))
TJ Bass always engrossed me (although I suspect his allegories were suspect) , as did Richard Cowper.
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> Bradbury wasn't all saccharine: some of the writing is poetry, some of it is
> just "poetic", and I'd agree he didn't seem to be able to distinguish
> reliably between the two, but one could assemble a small but significant
> volume of the stuff worth keeping. Mind you, I'm biased by having read the
> Martian Chronicles age 10 and thinking they were completely brill from start
> to finish.
>
> - Dom
>
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> From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 7:47 PM
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> InHigh-Energy X-Rays
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>
> > From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > authors then [& thinking of the period still, still are] were Bester,
> > > Kornbluth, & Sturgeon...).
> > > We've had many better, & more interesting, writers since, I believe...
> >
> > Mind you, how +do+ you untangle Kornbluth from Pohl? (And, for me [pace
> > Kingsley Amis], K was better than P.)
> >
> > Isn't Bester more 70s than sixties?
> >
> > And Sturgeon -- gimme Bradbury (help us) if you want to rot your teeth on
> > saccharine.
> >
> > Let's hear it for cyberpunk.
> >
> > Robin
>
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