Classic Science Fiction discussion

Worlds Without End posted the 2014 Grand Master Reading Challenge - to read 12 books by 12 different Grand Master authors, whom you have never read before, in 12 months and to write 12 reviews.

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/roll...

The Grandmasters are listed here:

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/auth...

I'm thinking of picking up something by:
James E. Gunn
Philip José Farmer
Lester del Ray
L. Sprague de Camp

Wow. Looking at that page of Grand Master pics gives me goosebumps. I was a teenager when I read many of them; these are the guys who made me fall in love with SF. They look so ... old.

Gerhard wrote: "Wow. Looking at that page of Grand Master pics gives me goosebumps. I was a teenager when I read many of them; these are the guys who made me fall in love with SF. They look so ... old."

Yeah, the pictures were a bit shocking. Mostly I knew about these authors by their written work, without any idea of how they looked. That's not the case today where I would recognize John Scalzi or Orson Scott Card quite readily. If I became a grandmaster will request that no picture be shown :)

... Or use a judiciously Photoshopped file photo. Yeah, there is a lot of history in the genre.