"foxbrick"
foxbrick@yahoo.com, wrote,
Sturgeon was the first and most obvious model for Ray
Bradbury, who
also was fond of such things. Robert Bloch, Robert
Arthur, Thorne Smith, L. Sprague de Camp, John Collier, Idris
Seabright/Margaret
St. Clair, Damon Knight, and Algis Budrys among the
others who've
contributed to such traditions.
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There would be many here who would know, but some wouldn't,
that Bloch, Sprague de Camp, Knight, Bradbury, Sturgeon and
Budrys (and others not listed) all wrote for the excellent
'Weird Tales' where most of their work that's relevant to
this thread originated. Bradbury wrote for the Saturday
Evening Post and his style will always remind me of it.
Bradbury wrote like Norman Rockwell drew. Both were geniuses
at what they do, but for me there is something irritating and
sentimental about both. Sturgeon is often mentioned along
with Bradbury.I have to suspect people who do that have never
read both. Their themes were similiar, their effect on the
reader quite different. Sturgeon's style could be hardboiled
and uncompromising. The best of his stories could smack you
between the eyes and make you feel like punching him out for
setting you up ( as the reader) and letting you walk right
into his haymakers. Try 'Bianca's Hands' from the E Pluribus
Unicorn anthology to see what I mean.That's probably why they
don't teach Sturgeon.He's too challenging, Bradbury is
feelgood, so he's safe.
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