Re: SF big household names

"Andrew Wheeler" <acwheele@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Silk <gilesofham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> When i started reading SF my local bookshop  was full of  Asimovs 
>> and
>> Clarkes.Whose name now  represents SF to non fans now that 
>> generation
>> has passed? Gibson? Ballard?
>
> The problem, I think, is that non-SF readers will still think of SF 
> as
> being Bradbury, Asimov, and Clarke. (Maybe Heinlein and Herbert if
> they're ex-SF readers rather than never reading it.) That is, all 
> the SF
> writers they know of are dead or did their best work fifty years ago 
> (or
> both).
>

I think of Westerns as Zane Gray, Owen Wister, and Louis L'amour. 
Cormac McCarthy too, I suppose.