Mario Taboada wrote,
The lack of reprints suggests that an entire generation of
mystery readers has grown up without knowing about Fredric
Brown. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine *any* reader
not liking Brown. He's one of the most fun writers (as well
as one of the greatest) in the mystery and SF genres.
Uppon checking my books, I find I have read 8 Brown titles
and 10 by Leigh Brackett. The Browns are all sf. While I
mildly liked them, I don't remember them as exceptional. I
think they were pretty light. It's hard for me to conceive
that he is such a loved mystery writer with hard boiled
credentials. Upon reading about him on this list I've looked
for his mysteries, but the few I found were much higher than
I cared to pay.
The Bracketts were classified as sf, but today I think
most would be called sword and sworcery. By changing the
settings from Venus and the like to '30's or '40's America I
can see them as easily transformed into hard boiled action
books.
I know there are authors who have melded the genres, but are
there current hard boiled authors prominent in both fields?
If so, is their work in sf/fantasy close to hard boiled?
Mark
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