via one of my many aggregated blogs (I’ll post the link as soon as I can remember it), I was informed that Locus had published the results (online) of their 1998 All-Time Poll. This one concerned pre-1990 SF novels.
In looking over the results, I was very pleased to note that virtually every author represented on that list of fine novels is also in my Top list of 150 Classic SF Writers.
Nice to see that I have my finger on the feeble, thready pulse of what people thought were classics ten years ago.
The only authors from the Locus Poll not appearing on my list are:
George Orwell (serious oversight), David Brin (serious oversight) Olaf Stapledon (serious oversight), George R. Stewart (oversight), Mary Shelly (???), William Gibson and Orson Scott Card, who’s works appeared after my classic cut off of 1983 (which – thank goodness – means that I don’t have to offer any other explanations as to their absence).
I’m surprised by my omissions of the first five and hereby declare that the list is now THE TOP 155 CLASSIC SF WRITERS OF ALL TIME.
More proof that – I have some idea of what I’m talking about (every once and a while, like a broken clock – at least twice a day) and that the above named mentioned authors are remembered for a reason, otherwise they wouldn’t keep on showing up in things like this.
