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To: Abin Sur
one of the Big Three Golden Age science fiction writers (Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein)

That reminds me of a funny dig at Ray Bradbury, from South Park. The "giants" of science fiction were being discussed. I'm doing this from memory, but the dialog went something like this:

Character 1: "... the giants of science fiction; Asimov, Bester, Clarke ..."

Character 2: "B for Alfie Bester? Really? Why not Bradbury?"

Character 1: "Bradbury. (condescending sniff). I'm aware of his work."

44 posted on 06/15/2011 9:51:55 AM PDT by NewMexLurker
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To: NewMexLurker
Character 1: "Bradbury. (condescending sniff). I'm aware of his work."

Well, to be fair while Bradbury certainly wrote his share of science fiction, his larger body of work is more oriented towards fantasy; he himself said that his only work of science fiction was Fahrenheit 451, and that the Martian Chronicles wasn't SF, but rather was fantasy.

Hence the condescending sniff, I suppose.

82 posted on 06/15/2011 9:46:00 PM PDT by Abin Sur
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