Names From Long Ago

In my teens, the sf authors that mattered most to me were:

Heinlein

Asimov

Blish

Simak

I knew of Anderson but did not yet rate him as highly as I do now and have done for a long time. It took quite a while for me to realize that Anderson's Technic History was more than just his van Rijn series and his Flandry series strung together. The Lancaster sf bookseller, Pete Pinto, rightly said that Anderson was "the most under-rated sf writer." Someone else said that he was a thud and blunder man with literary pretensions but I think that it is the other way around. He was a literary writer who still liked his action scenes even when he had stopped writing for pulp magazines.

There are other names that I remember from back then but know little or nothing about but can now google, e.g.:

Murray Leinster

E.C. Tubb

Patrick Moore (better known as an astronomer and TV personality)

Today = funeral this morning + meeting this evening + heavy rain.

So it goes.