in the way that Bob Dylan is a "good-bad" singer, who are "good-bad" writers? Are people whose prose has notable deficiencies — Lovecraft and Dick are two obvious examples — great in spite of their writing or does their....idiosyncratic....style productively work with their ideas
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Asimov definitely. Often too obsessed with turning his stories into logic puzzles to show how clever he was.
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Comes in right at 1965 but Dune is in many places, especially early on, a seriously clunky piece of writing on the level of prose and subtlety of presentation.
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yeah, Frank Herbert is a classically good-bad writer. Amazing concept, blundering execution.
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Have you read James Tiptree Jr (pen name of Alice Sheldon)? She started in 1967, absolutely phenomenal.
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My go-to counterexample is Alfred Bester but generally I think this is right.
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Alfred Bester is a counter example.
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Bradbury is a weird case of a writer who started out being a masterful stylist and got slowly more self-indulgent and verbose as he aged.
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