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The average American would be hard pressed to name any famous writer at all. -- "Uhh...the guy who wrote Shakespeare?"-- Personally, when I was a kid, I knew who Wells, Verne, Bradbury were. It was a long time before I heard of Heinlein, but I read mostly non-sf. I certainly knew who Rod Serling was, but I don't think I would ever have mentioned him as a science fiction writer. To me he was a guy on TV, and I knew he'd written REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT which, though I hadn't seen it, I'd heard so much about that I thought it must be something very Important and worth remembering.
But it's true that, thanks to
Twilight Zone
, I soon knew who Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont were. And I bought a paperback copy of
More than Human
when I was very young, so I knew Theodore Sturgeon.
My son, who reads a LOT, knows Bradbury, has read
Fahrenheit 451
. He knows Arthur C. Clarke, because I've been pounding it into him for years. But a year or so ago, he asked me for some science-fiction novels he should read. I suggested, among others,
Stranger in a Strange Land
,
Left Hand of Darkness
, and
Ender's Game
. At that time, it was the first he'd ever heard of Heinlein, LeGuin, or Card.
I just think there's a big difference between the average American, the average
literate
American, and the average
sf-reading
American.
It's really hard to quantify such nebulous things (Most Popular? Most Famous? Sez who?). But my feeling is, that, during Bill's time-frame of late 40s, early 50s, Ray Bradbury would have been the most famous LIVING sf writer. But that's just a feeling.
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