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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1811206" data-attributes="member: 5171">I don't know how old you are, so I don't know what 20 years ago means to you, but I'd suspect that at least some of tht is rose-tinting.  I had the misfortune to come upon some of the folks you just named as an adult with his critical reading skills fully developed, and I wasn't impressed.  Not everyone you just mentioned, of course, but at least two of 'em -- some stuff that was dated in terms of feel, some stuff that was overly simplistic, and some stuff that would have impressed the heck out of me if I hadn't already seen it on Star Trek, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Farscape, and possible Andromeda (which is not to say it was done badly -- just that, even though it was done first historically by that writer, I'd seen it first other places, so it wasn't as neat a surprise for me).  I wish I'd read them as a teenager instead.Not a knock on you personally -- one of the great things about the old-time authors is that they were focused on entertaining people, which, as "your father is" noted, has in some markets fallen by the wayside in favor of trying to impress the reader with how smart the writer is or how incredibly literary they can be.  So I heartily endorse the old writers' sensibility of "make your story something that somebody coming home after a long day's work will want to pick up and read for fun".</blockquote>