Science Fiction Aficionados discussion

As a fan of both fantasy and science fiction I love everything from Tolkien to Asimov and anything inbetween. Some of my favorite books and authors combine these two genres. Authors like Piers Anthony, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lin Carter, Philip Jose Farmer, Harry Harrison, Keith Laumer, Anne McCaffrey, Michael Moorcock, and Roger Zelazny. Are there any other readers of these authors here? Who, what do you like?

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lin Carter
Philip Jose Farmer (also gets a nomination for best author name in the genre)
Roger Zelazny (one of my favorites)
Harry Harrison
Anne McCafery

And Horable Mention to Heinlein's Glory Road.

that's the short list (put so I look active while I'm still compiling a longer list.)

I'm reading The Maker of Universes by Farmer right now and love it. It's the typical adult Wizard of Oz/Alice in Wonderland type story where the hero travels to an alternate universe. I've read too many to count but this one is becoming my favorite.

that is an awesome list of authors Traci.

my particular favorite is Jack Vance.

Love Anthony: Incarnations of Immortality series esp.
Harrison: Stainless Steel Rat series and Bill the galactic hero.

Henry Kuttner
Catherine Moore

I can't believe I left them out. Two of my favorite authors. :)

That's good to hear, Traci!

Time travel work for you?

These are both the first book in a series. Both have kind of the same theme....modern town transported back in time.

Island in the sea of time
1632

Then you have a colony of humans existing on zero technology to hide from aliens in one of my favorite series: David webers safehold. The first book is off armageddon reef

You could also try march upcountry which is futuristic marines, making their way across a bronze age world.

Here's another reach back in the history of Science Fiction and definitely a SF 'pulp' crossover author:

E.E. "Doc" Smith

An oldie but Goldie!!

If you yet need to read the Lensmen series, well, you need to read it. The Lensmen series is novelized and now found in that form, but you can see the natural points of serialization clearly in the stories. Classic age Science Fiction from the great Pulp/Magazine era.

Smith's Skylark series is another grand adventure in this high speed read realm of the printed thrillers and adventure works of the time.

McCaffrey and Moorcock are old favorites of mine from when I was younger.

I recently read a Robert Silverberg that might fit in this category, called Nightwings.

Loved Anne McCaffrey's original Dragonflight (and subsequent pre/sequels)... and have recently (many many years later) convinced both my Mum and Nephew to try them too...

I'd like to suggest: Gene Wolfe and (a bit of an outsider!!) Terry Pratchett

My father loved the Lensman series so much we buried them with him so he'd have something to read.

I like that :)

Since the tread title contains the word "Pulp". I've got to mention one of my all time favorites from my growing up years....Doc Savage. I still remember the first one I read. I read the paperbacks (not the original magazines..I'm not that old).

Two favorites that come to mind from the "pulp" years are Edmund Hamilton and Jack Williamson. Both wrote some really terrific and pulpy stories that are still a blast to read.

Before discovering E.R.Burroughs as a kid in 1970, I read this guy. And I read all that he had out by then. I think he qualifies for pulp/scifi/fantasy...

Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988)
The only author to win a Hugo, Nebula, and an International Fantasy Award.

(International Fantasy Award) - City
(Hugo) - Way Station, The Big Front Yard
(Nebula Grand Master) - Grotto of the Dancing Deer

Beginning
1931- The World of the Red Sun - Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories
1932 - Hellhounds of the Cosmos - Astounding
1935 - The Creator - Marvel Tales
1938 - Cosmic Engineers - Astounding Stories
. . .
. . .
1986 - Highway of Eternity
End

A couple of authors from the pulp era who are now overlooked are Ray Cummings and David H. Keller. By the way the fourth Skylark novel was actually written in the sixties.