Who Do You Think Are The Most Neglected and Forgotten Writers?

[Vince W]

Keith Laumer

Thems Huggin Words!

 

[BAYLOR]

Thems Huggin Words!

They really do need to. put him back into print.

 

[Bick]

They really do need to. put him back into print.

A fair amount of Laumer is still published (predominantly by Baen).

 

[BAYLOR]

I'll have to give him a try -- maybe I can get to that Khyber Rifles one soon. It sounds Kipling-y -- and I would assert that Kipling is a neglected author, brushed off by countless people who think they can dismiss him as an "imperialist" not worthy of their time. There's unworthiness somewhere in the equation, but I don't think it's on Kipling's side.

There's a Kipling subforum for those who might be interested:

Rudyard Kipling: Weird Tale Master and Much More

I recently acquired an old hardcover edition of Puck of Pook's Hill. Ive had nly seen one other copy of that book in my life , years ago and in soft was cover . I foolishly didn't buy it .

 

[BAYLOR]

Francis Stevens ( Gertrude Barrows Bennet)

 

[pogopossum]

On a blog elsewhere, a discussion on:
"Classic Authors Who You Like(d) and Who Have Pretty Much Been Forgotten"
went on for some time. I initiated it but deliberately left it to others to name whomever they wanted, using their own definitions.
Of course there were many objections, for whatever reasons, to many who were named. SF readers are a rancorous, picky, bunch.
There are a few who I certainly thought were not "classic"(Neil Gaiman ?)
Anyway, here's the full list of everyone who anyone mentioned.
C.M. Kornbluth
Phil Klass (William Tenn)
Henry Kuttner,
Ted Sturgeon
Fredrick Brown
Stanley Weinbaum
Wilmar Shiras
Eric Frank Russell
Bertram Chandler
Harry Harrison
Fred Hoyle
Frederik Pohl
Cliff Simak
Poul Anderson
E.E. 'Doc' Smith
M.K. Wren
Mary Gentle
Bruce Sterling
John Varley
Murray Leinster
Olaf Stapledon
Jack Williamson
Robert Sheckley
L. Sprague de Camp
James H. Schmitz
Bob Shaw
Richard Cowper
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lewis Padgett (Kuttner & C. L. Moore)
C.L. Moore
Arthur Clarke
Robert(s) Shea & Wilson
Roger Zelazny
John Brunner
JG Ballard
Michael Coney
John Wyndham
Barrington Bayley
Charles Harness
Michael Moorcock
Brian Aldiss
Norman Spinrad
Frederick Pohl
Richard Cowper
James Blish
Barry Longyear
Keith Laumer
Keith Roberts
Philip José Farmer
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
H Beam Piper
Fred Saberhagen
Fritz Leiber
Eando (Earl & Otto) Binder
Andre Norton
Robert Silverberg
Philip K Dick
Kingsley Amis
Damon Knight
Leigh Brackett
Raymond F Jones
Algis Budrys
Cordwainer Smith
A. E. van Vogt
John Carr
Edgar Pangborn
James Tiptree. (Alice Sheldon)
Randall Garrett
John Sladek
Lionel Fanthorpe
C J Cherryh
Daniel Keyes
Octavia E. Butler
Joanna Russ
Jack L. Chalker
Vonda McIntyre
Charles G Finney
Ray Bradbury
Dan Simmons
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chad Oliver
A. J. Deutsch
Theodora Goss
Tananarive Due
Ib Melchior
William Shakespeare
Lester Del Ray
Robert Heinlein
Joseph Heller
H. L. Gold
JP Martin
Neil Gaiman
George R. Stewart,
Pat Frank
Jack Vance
John Myers Myers
Thorne Smith
Henry Miller
James Branch Cabell
Lin Carter
Howard Waldrop
Isaac Asimov
John Cambell
Ursula LeGuin
L. Ron Hubbard
H P Lovecraft
Ron Goulart
Wilson Tucker
RA Lafferty
DG Compton
Avram Davidson
Alexei Panshin
Gordon Ecklund
Suzette Hagen Elgin
David Zindell
Ian Watson
Eleanor Arnason
Zenna Henderson
Christopher Priest
George Zebrowski
John Crowley
Sydney Van Sycoc
SP Somtow

 

[BAYLOR]

On a blog elsewhere, a discussion on:
"Classic Authors Who You Like(d) and Who Have Pretty Much Been Forgotten"
went on for some time. I initiated it but deliberately left it to others to name whomever they wanted, using their own definitions.
Of course there were many objections, for whatever reasons, to many who were named. SF readers are a rancorous, picky, bunch.
There are a few who I certainly thought were not "classic"(Neil Gaiman ?)
Anyway, here's the full list of everyone who anyone mentioned.
C.M. Kornbluth
Phil Klass (William Tenn)
Henry Kuttner,
Ted Sturgeon
Fredrick Brown
Stanley Weinbaum
Wilmar Shiras
Eric Frank Russell
Bertram Chandler
Harry Harrison
Fred Hoyle
Frederik Pohl
Cliff Simak
Poul Anderson
E.E. 'Doc' Smith
M.K. Wren
Mary Gentle
Bruce Sterling
John Varley
Murray Leinster
Olaf Stapledon
Jack Williamson
Robert Sheckley
L. Sprague de Camp
James H. Schmitz
Bob Shaw
Richard Cowper
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lewis Padgett (Kuttner & C. L. Moore)
C.L. Moore
Arthur Clarke
Robert(s) Shea & Wilson
Roger Zelazny
John Brunner
JG Ballard
Michael Coney
John Wyndham
Barrington Bayley
Charles Harness
Michael Moorcock
Brian Aldiss
Norman Spinrad
Frederick Pohl
Richard Cowper
James Blish
Barry Longyear
Keith Laumer
Keith Roberts
Philip José Farmer
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
H Beam Piper
Fred Saberhagen
Fritz Leiber
Eando (Earl & Otto) Binder
Andre Norton
Robert Silverberg
Philip K Dick
Kingsley Amis
Damon Knight
Leigh Brackett
Raymond F Jones
Algis Budrys
Cordwainer Smith
A. E. van Vogt
John Carr
Edgar Pangborn
James Tiptree. (Alice Sheldon)
Randall Garrett
John Sladek
Lionel Fanthorpe
C J Cherryh
Daniel Keyes
Octavia E. Butler
Joanna Russ
Jack L. Chalker
Vonda McIntyre
Charles G Finney
Ray Bradbury
Dan Simmons
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chad Oliver
A. J. Deutsch
Theodora Goss
Tananarive Due
Ib Melchior
William Shakespeare
Lester Del Ray
Robert Heinlein
Joseph Heller
H. L. Gold
JP Martin
Neil Gaiman
George R. Stewart,
Pat Frank
Jack Vance
John Myers Myers
Thorne Smith
Henry Miller
James Branch Cabell
Lin Carter
Howard Waldrop
Isaac Asimov
John Cambell
Ursula LeGuin
L. Ron Hubbard
H P Lovecraft
Ron Goulart
Wilson Tucker
RA Lafferty
DG Compton
Avram Davidson
Alexei Panshin
Gordon Ecklund
Suzette Hagen Elgin
David Zindell
Ian Watson
Eleanor Arnason
Zenna Henderson
Christopher Priest
George Zebrowski
John Crowley
Sydney Van Sycoc
SP Somtow

Awesome list !

 

[psikeyhackr]

On a blog elsewhere, a discussion on:
"Classic Authors Who You Like(d) and Who Have Pretty Much Been Forgotten"
went on for some time. I initiated it but deliberately left it to others to name whomever they wanted, using their own definitions.
Of course there were many objections, for whatever reasons, to many who were named. SF readers are a rancorous, picky, bunch.
There are a few who I certainly thought were not "classic"(Neil Gaiman ?)
Anyway, here's the full list of everyone who anyone mentioned.
C.M. Kornbluth
Phil Klass (William Tenn)
Henry Kuttner,
Ted Sturgeon
Fredrick Brown
Stanley Weinbaum
Wilmar Shiras
Eric Frank Russell
Bertram Chandler
Harry Harrison
Fred Hoyle
Frederik Pohl
Cliff Simak
Poul Anderson
E.E. 'Doc' Smith
M.K. Wren
Mary Gentle
Bruce Sterling
John Varley
Murray Leinster
Olaf Stapledon
Jack Williamson
Robert Sheckley
L. Sprague de Camp
James H. Schmitz
Bob Shaw
Richard Cowper
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lewis Padgett (Kuttner & C. L. Moore)
C.L. Moore
Arthur Clarke
Robert(s) Shea & Wilson
Roger Zelazny
John Brunner
JG Ballard
Michael Coney
John Wyndham
Barrington Bayley
Charles Harness
Michael Moorcock
Brian Aldiss
Norman Spinrad
Frederick Pohl
Richard Cowper
James Blish
Barry Longyear
Keith Laumer
Keith Roberts
Philip José Farmer
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
H Beam Piper
Fred Saberhagen
Fritz Leiber
Eando (Earl & Otto) Binder
Andre Norton
Robert Silverberg
Philip K Dick
Kingsley Amis
Damon Knight
Leigh Brackett
Raymond F Jones
Algis Budrys
Cordwainer Smith
A. E. van Vogt
John Carr
Edgar Pangborn
James Tiptree. (Alice Sheldon)
Randall Garrett
John Sladek
Lionel Fanthorpe
C J Cherryh
Daniel Keyes
Octavia E. Butler
Joanna Russ
Jack L. Chalker
Vonda McIntyre
Charles G Finney
Ray Bradbury
Dan Simmons
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chad Oliver
A. J. Deutsch
Theodora Goss
Tananarive Due
Ib Melchior
William Shakespeare
Lester Del Ray
Robert Heinlein
Joseph Heller
H. L. Gold
JP Martin
Neil Gaiman
George R. Stewart,
Pat Frank
Jack Vance
John Myers Myers
Thorne Smith
Henry Miller
James Branch Cabell
Lin Carter
Howard Waldrop
Isaac Asimov
John Cambell
Ursula LeGuin
L. Ron Hubbard
H P Lovecraft
Ron Goulart
Wilson Tucker
RA Lafferty
DG Compton
Avram Davidson
Alexei Panshin
Gordon Ecklund
Suzette Hagen Elgin
David Zindell
Ian Watson
Eleanor Arnason
Zenna Henderson
Christopher Priest
George Zebrowski
John Crowley
Sydney Van Sycoc
SP Somtow

You realize of course that those were supposed to be in alphabetical order. LOL

 

[pogopossum]

Nah. I prefer my lists to be in date order by height. Or weight.

 

[dask]

Didn't go back and check every previous post but if they weren't mentioned yet:
Louis Charbonneau
Jerry Sohl
Kenneth Bulmer

 

[BAYLOR]

Didn't go back and check every previous post but if they weren't mentioned yet:
Louis Charbonneau
Jerry Sohl
Kenneth Bulmer

I think I may have already mentioned Bulmer .

 

[dask]

I think I may have already mentioned Bulmer .

Yes, I found your post a few minutes ago. We'll, how about Alan Burt Akers? Seriously, you don't hear too much about F.M.Busby or John T. Phillifent or Jeff Sutton anymore.

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

Manley Bannister. The one book ive read by him Conquest of Earth . It was a very good book. never found any other books by him I don't even see him in used bookstores.

Manley Bannister - crazy name, crazy guy!

 

[BAYLOR]

Manley Bannister - crazy name, crazy guy!

Very good writer.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I wish Robert Lipsyte got more attention with his "boxing trilogy," which started with The Contender.

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

Mack Reynolds seems to be fairly neglected considering the amount he actually got published.

Reynolds was interesting for the politics, maybe an influence on the likes of Cadwell Turnbull?

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

In the literature of imaginative romance (which includes sf and fantasy), isn't H. Rider Haggard neglected? Come on, now, Chrons people -- I'm sure many of you know his name, but have you read him? Of those who have, who's read more than She and King Solomon's Mines? (I grant you that, if those didn't mean much to you, you may as well not bother with this author, but I've found enjoyment in quite a few of his other tales.)

Outside sf and fantasy, I wonder about ignorance of intellectuals who once seem to have been known by just about everyone who concerned himself or herself with literary and social criticism, etc. -- George Santayana, José Ortega y Gasset, Benedetto Croce, Henri Bergson, et al. Since I haven't read them myself, I don't know what we may be missing, but for a while lots of thoughtful people seemed to find these and others to be worth reading. They were part of the intellectual outfit of thoughtful people. Nobody does read them any more, so far as I can tell. My guess is that fashion has moved on, and also that writers such as these were formed by a culture in which mass media were insignificant; culture was largely a matter of "thick journals," books, concerts, art galleries. Getting a deep acquaintance with that culture required much time, undistracted thought, and, ideally, command of the principal European languages. You now have people who major in English without reading very many books in their careers, especially if written before the 20th century (and then they go on to teach), and they are immersed in the mass media. People whose counterparts decades ago read Santayana et al. now devote most of their intellectual endeavor to theorists such as Derrida, the Nazi de Man, Barthes, etc. and to a host of academics obsessing about raceclassandgender. Perhaps a person of genuine intellectual ambition would find much of value in the "forgotten" writers, but he or she will have to do the exploring without much help from university faculties (though one may hope that the books haven't been purged from the libraries).

I don't agree, but Bergson is worth reading

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

Very good writer.

Well, apologies for the flippant comment!

 

[Valtharius]

Most neglected writers? Well yours truly obviously should be on that list. I wouldn't call myself forgotten though, because first you have to be remembered in order to then be forgotten.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Brian Aldiss
Kingsley Amis
Poul Anderson
Eleanor Arnason
Isaac Asimov

JG Ballard
Barrington Bayley
Eando (Earl & Otto) Binder
James Blish
Leigh Brackett
Ray Bradbury
Fredrick Brown
John Brunner
Algis Budrys
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Octavia E. Butler

James Branch Cabell
John Campbell
John Carr
Lin Carter
Jack L. Chalker
Bertram Chandler
Geoffrey Chaucer
C J Cherryh
Arthur Clarke
DG Compton
Michael Coney
Richard Cowper
John Crowley

Avram Davidson
L. Sprague de Camp
Lester Del Ray
A. J. Deutsch
Philip K Dick
Tananarive Due

Gordon Ecklund
Suzette Hagen Elgin

Lionel Fanthorpe
Philip José Farmer
Charles G Finney
Pat Frank

Neil Gaiman
Randall Garrett
Mary Gentle
H. L. Gold
Theodora Goss
Ron Goulart

Charles Harness
Harry Harrison
Robert Heinlein
Joseph Heller
Zenna Henderson
Fred Hoyle
L. Ron Hubbard
Aldous Huxley

Raymond F Jones

Phil Klass (William Tenn)
Damon Knight
C.M. Kornbluth
Henry Kuttner
Daniel Keyes

RA Lafferty
Keith Laumer
Ursula LeGuin
Fritz Leiber
Murray Leinster
Barry Longyear
H P Lovecraft

JP Martin
Vonda McIntyre
Ib Melchior
Henry Miller
Michael Moorcock
C.L. Moore
John Myers

Andre Norton

Chad Oliver
George Orwell

Lewis Padgett (Kuttner & C. L. Moore)
Edgar Pangborn
Alexei Panshin
H Beam Piper
Frederik Pohl
Christopher Priest

Keith Roberts
Joanna Russ
Eric Frank Russell

Fred Saberhagen
James H. Schmitz
Bob Shaw
Robert Sheckley
Wilmar Shiras
Robert Silverberg
Cliff Simak
Dan Simmons
John Sladek
Cordwainer Smith
E.E. 'Doc' Smith
Thorne Smith
SP Somtow
Norman Spinrad
Olaf Stapledon
Bruce Sterling
George R. Stewart
Ted Sturgeon

James Tiptree. (Alice Sheldon)
Wilson Tucker

Sydney Van Sycoc
A. E. van Vogt
Jack Vance
John Varley

Howard Waldrop
Ian Watson
Stanley Weinbaum
Jack Williamson
Robert(s) Shea & Wilson
M.K. Wren
John Wyndham

George Zebrowski
Roger Zelazny
David Zindell