# Should I read Judith Merril?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 31, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-read-judith-merril/483932 "2009-01-31T23:49:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-read-judith-merril/483932/1 "2009-01-31T23:49:56Z")

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I just noticed a collection of her short SF in my local bookstore. I enjoyed a couple of collections she edited; I didn’t enjoy a couple of novels she wrote with Kornbluth, but I’m not actually sure I’ve ever read any of her short fiction.

FWIW, I like Brackett and C. L. Moore, and dislike Tiptree.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-read-judith-merril/483932/2 "2009-02-01T00:43:13Z")

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Her stuff is O.K., but it’s nothing special in my opinion.