--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, md_moore42 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So you are basing big on money? Then why is Asimov, Heinlein, or
Clarke on your list at all?
Back in the 60's they would have been the biggest based on any
criterion you could have come up with, bar none.
Here is
They gotta be alive (as the Big Three were when they were the Big
Three and they gotta be BIG!
No Black writer, though this is Sci Fi Noir and though I sincerely
wished it were otherwise, can make the cut.
You're right. Ellison off. Bradbury on.
King writes Horror--even he would say so.
New
They ain't BIG!
I love Gibson by the way and he comes the closest since he is viewed as the
father/creator of cyberspace and all but mostly only computer nerds know who he
is.
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Note: How can you be neutral on a moving
Thanks for the welcome, Astromancer.
Kathy
Kathy J Marsh
The Aura of Love
www.kathyjmarsh.com
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Welcome to the family, Kathy...looking forward to seeing what you
have in print...
kmnlocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Total agreement! (Although, imho, Horror and SciFi are subsets of
Spec Fic; only people of a _certain_age_ [okay, I'm dating myself]
remember Breakfast of Champions; but EVERYONE knows Stephen King...I
wonder if we should concede that it's not possible TODAY to have a BIG
3 who are, strictly
You are more than welcome, m'Lady...
kmnlocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the welcome,
Astromancer.
Kathy
Kathy J Marsh
The Aura of Love
www.kathyjmarsh.com
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Welcome to the family, Kathy...looking
It's strange to categorize a Big 3 by using standards outside of the
field. That would be like judging Black writers by whether a white
man-in-street would know them.
Of course, 10 million buyers of Jurassic Park can be wrong. 10
million buyers of the da vinic Code can be wrong. You can
