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<blockquote data-quote="werecorpse" data-source="post: 7489085" data-attributes="member: 55491">Bellairs, John 13Burroughs, Edgar Rice 19Carter, Lin 16de Camp &amp; Pratt 15Dunsany, Lord 17Fox, Gardner 17Lanier, Sterling 2-2=0Leiber, Fritz 19Merritt, A. 18Offutt, Andrew J. 14Pratt, Fletcher 12St. Clair, Margaret 15Tolkien, J.R.R. 11+1=12Weinbaum, Stanley 6Wellman, Manley Wade 16Williamson, Jack 18Zelazny, Roger 20Yep some fans have strong opinions and they can rub the wrong way. Don’t get too invested in this vote it’s a self evidently NOT a way of determining who is most popular or whatever - just the one who survives. If you want to set up a most popular poll I’m sure you could do it. In this being popular is like wearing a target in your back. The popular options get hammered because someone is sick of them. (Edit: or more often sick of their fans and conflates the author with the fans)It’s the system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="werecorpse, post: 7489085, member: 55491"] Bellairs, John 13 Burroughs, Edgar Rice 19 Carter, Lin 16 de Camp & Pratt 15 Dunsany, Lord 17 Fox, Gardner 17 Lanier, Sterling 2-2=0 Leiber, Fritz 19 Merritt, A. 18 Offutt, Andrew J. 14 Pratt, Fletcher 12 St. Clair, Margaret 15 Tolkien, J.R.R. 11+1=12 Weinbaum, Stanley 6 Wellman, Manley Wade 16 Williamson, Jack 18 Zelazny, Roger 20 Yep some fans have strong opinions and they can rub the wrong way. Don’t get too invested in this vote it’s a self evidently NOT a way of determining who is most popular or whatever - just the one who survives. If you want to set up a most popular poll I’m sure you could do it. In this being popular is like wearing a target in your back. The popular options get hammered because someone is sick of them. (Edit: or more often sick of their fans and conflates the author with the fans) It’s the system. [/QUOTE]

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