Piers, I was just a bit worried that a DTStudy thread might be, well, you know, too "studious" to drift a long way from the topic. LOL

I tried searching for an existing thread on Sci-Fi & fantasy authors but I couldn't find one which seemed to be about the same topic.

BTW, I left high school in the very early 70's but I'm a senior citizen now. One of the units I studied in my English Lit degree was fantasy and science fiction. I discovered a lot of authors I hadn't heard of before and really enjoyed studying that part of the course.