In a message dated 10/11/2002 1:01:42 PM Eastern Standard
Time,
Todd.Mason@tvguide.com writes:
> As for fantastic fiction and cf amphibians in the
pulps, I'll nominate
> Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich, Jack/John Holbrook
Vance (though he rolled
> in toward the end of the pulps), Miriam Allen DeFord
(ditto, I think, for
> her), Anthony Boucher, and no doubt a slew I'm
foolishly letting slip
> by...though you did specify science fiction, which
leaves out Woolrich as
> far as I know, but not the other folk (even if
Bloch's sf may've been the
> least of his talents, he did some excellent work in
that
> field). Excelling
> and being best known for something are not congruent
enough.
I stand corrected, I forgot about Bloch and Boucher, not to
mention Jack/John Holbrook/Vance, one of my all time favorite
authors in any genre. I guess one could even mention the
hybrids, such as Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov, and Alfred Bester
who wrote science fiction/mysteries. How hard boiled those
are is open to question I would guess... Steve Harbin
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