Marion Zimmer Bradley, C.J. Cherryh and Jack McDevitt come to mind here;??? strong writing: you might think somebody who grew up reading pulp sf (referring to the type of stories, not the paper it was printed on) would not care about the writing style, but my Golden Age was during the New Wave, so writers such as Roger Zelazny and Samuel R. Delany scarred me forever. ??? historical development: wh