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..
Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute. This entire discussion was ignited when Bill Warren (who I think is a great guy) came roaring out of the starting gate with the following post (on page 18 of this thread) in which he declares/ranks/categorizes Ray Bradburry as "The Most Famous Science Fiction Writer On Earth: Then & Now" :

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.
So Del, it's not right that you demonize the entire CHFB and our society as a whole for something that was started in this thread by one man (one GREAT man, I might add) and one man only; Bill Warren.


  

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