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From: li@uw-vlsi.ARPA (Phyllis Li)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Request from an SF Diletante
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 00:44:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 00:44:26 1986
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Dick Jackson wrote asking about sf classics, and after having been
bounced three different ways...

A truly classical SF author no one has mentioned yet is C.L. Moore,
probably one of the first writers in the genre that went more into what
machines, space travel, communication with extraterrestrials and techincal 
advances did to People than just the joy of playing with the technical
awesomeness.  Most of the authors mentioned have some part of this;
but C.L. Moore and her metallic lady and Northwest Smith stories have
stayed with me when Heinlein faded into lectures, when Doc Smith went
into space battles, and Niven built a basis for worlds for pages of
mechanical pages.  The collections *The Best of C.L. Moore* and 
*Northwest Smith* I think are still avalible, and should be included
in any collection of "classics". 

					Liralen Li
-- 
A closed mouth gathers no foot.

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