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Aug 12 10 1:31 PM
delgadosaur wrote: Well, the air of some of the comments seem to trumpet one author at anothers' expense, and I thought Bill Warren put it quite nicely when he stated in an earlier post that we don't really need to list, rank or categorize things, people or places the way we do as a society and on this forum..
Bill Warren wrote: Oh, Ted, gimme a @@%*!%+%* break. Bradbury was then, and is now, the most famous science fiction writer on Earth. I guess fans today assume that what they see around them is the way it always was. In the very late forties and on into the fifties, science fiction in general underwent a gigantic burst of popularity; the number of magazines on the stands annually increased from something like eight to around thirty--and this was exactly when science fiction films kicked. It was also exactly when Bradbury's stories were appearing in not just science fiction magazines, but The Saturday Evening Post (possibly also Collier's; haven't checked that), the most popular general interest magazine of the day. He was prestigious in a way that only a later writer like Stephen King became. He was the big cheese in terms of science fiction. There was a very good reason that his name was plastered all over the ads for BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE.
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