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
Subject: Re: Fwd: [SciFiNoir] FWD: Star Factory Near Galactic Center Bathed
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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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