They might not be able to name a single one of the over 200 books he wrote, but the name will sound familiar, the way when you hear a soap opera actor's name (well more so with an actress, probably) the name rings a vague bell because your eye has caught it in line at the supermarket. You couldn't tell me for sure she was an actress, or what soap she was on, and certainly not her character's name, but her real name would ring a bell... Same would be true of Robert A. Heinlein and the non-geeks. Frank Herbert would get blank looks, but "Dune" might not, because of the movie. Anne McCaffrey, blank looks. Ursula K. LeGuin, blank looks. JK Who? (But if you say, "Harry Potter," it's "Ooooohhh."
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Date: 2009-05-02 11:13 pm (UTC)