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   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, mn.humor   
   From: mscottschilling@hotmail.com   
      
   PR wrote:   
   >   
   > LOL! RAH without a doubt was the best SF writer of his time.   
      
   If you dismiss Alfred Bester for his relatively small output, perhaps.   
      
   > No matter   
   > what a person wids up thinking of him, *everyone* seems to be able   
   > to   
   > remember the *first* RAH book they read.   
      
   I don't think I can, but I'll never forget reading through Damon   
   Knight's _A Science Fiction Argosy_ collection and arriving at  _The   
   Demolished Man_.   
      
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