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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5784567" data-attributes="member: 19675">Ditto a number of Sci-fi &amp; Fantasy giants, but that does not then relegate them to being &quot;obscure.&quot;I love football, but there are Hall of Famers I've never heard of.&nbsp; Those guys I don't know I would argue are obscure.OTOH, for personal and professional reasons, I have a 5000+ CD collection and can rattle off bands &amp; musicians my mother- a music teacher- has never heard of...and she can do the same to me.&nbsp; If there is a discussion of a musician neither of us heard of, that musician is probably off the radar of all but a very few people.IMHO, the true measure of someone's obscurity within a genre of artistic expression- writing, painting, music, etc.- is not sales or whether you or I have heard of them, but whether they are relatively well known/important to the history &amp; growth of the genre by those who are fellow practitioners, teachers &amp; students of the genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5784567, member: 19675"] Ditto a number of Sci-fi & Fantasy [I]giants[/I], but that does not then relegate them to being "obscure." I love football, but there are Hall of Famers I've never heard of. Those guys I don't know I would argue are obscure. OTOH, for personal and professional reasons, I have a 5000+ CD collection and can rattle off bands & musicians my mother- a music teacher- has never heard of...and she can do the same to me. If there is a discussion of a musician neither of us heard of, that musician is probably off the radar of all but a very few people. IMHO, the true measure of someone's obscurity within a genre of artistic expression- writing, painting, music, etc.- is not sales or whether you or I have heard of them, but whether they are relatively well known/important to the history & growth of the genre by those who are fellow practitioners, teachers & students of the genre. [/QUOTE]

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