To convey the full extent of his pervasive effects on science fiction, one can consider the three, commonly accepted periods of Heinlein’s career, as first defined in Alexei Panshin’s Heinlein in Dimension (1968), a pioneering and seminal study despite its flaws. Heinlein are still occupying a considerable amount of shelf space, and the evidence of his broad impact on the genre is undeniable. Clarke, and there may be few signs of their influence on other writers. Wells, or even Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Still, there is at least one classic writer that every science fiction reader must come to terms with for when you visit a bookstore today, the science fiction section may have only a few books by Jules Verne and H. Readers of contemporary science fiction might understandably grow impatient with commentators who keep talking about older science fiction writers, since they have largely been supplanted by new favorites in today’s marketplace.
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