i just want to say, in the strongest possible terms, that going back to older SFF and reading it is a really fucking good idea that everyone should do

there's so much really good readable stuff especially after ~1965-70, it deserves to be read and remembered, it adds so much richness to the genre
There are a bunch of writers who are still alive, I'm thinking of Tim Powers, who wrote amazing, important work and who have been forgotten. It happens. But it pays to go back in time and find out where certain ideas, certain innovations came from.

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