Marion Zimmer Bradley - Darkover series. Anne McCaffery - Pern. Andre Norton. The old Van Vogt books. I like sc fic, not magic/sorcery/fantasy.
Never say never
Remmeber when I was in full rant to the owner of my SF bookshop about how SF was being driven off the shelves by the wave of fantasy. (She was a friend so it wasn't a "crazy guy off the street" thing).
Then I noticed. "wait is that Dragon on the Border", I have to have that". (one in Gordon Dickson's "Dragonknight" series which starts with The Dragon and the George)
So I'd amend that to magic/sorcery/fantasy is OK when written by hard SF authors.
In addition to Dickson, fantasy from Poul Anderson, Niven's Warlock stories, Elizabeth Moon's Sheepherder's Daughter series
On my own thread that I initiated, my complaints were about Science Fiction Entertainment ~ Movies, TV, Comic Books
This medium is anti-American, and the material is made in Canada .
Ray Bradbury has also taken notice of Sci-Fi's dark trends -
he calls his writings FANTASY !