You can say the same for any field of literature. Have you heard of Sully Prudhomme, Theodore Mommsen, Rudolf Eucken, or Eyvind Johnson? All of them won Nobel

You can say the same for any field of literature. Have you heard of Sully Prudhomme, Theodore Mommsen, Rudolf Eucken, or Eyvind Johnson? All of them won Nobel Prizes for literature and -- if you're lucky -- you'll find one or two of their books in print. Years of Grace by Margaret Barnes? Guard of Honor by James Cozzens? Both are Pulitzer Prize winners that are out of print. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine? Sold over 500,000 copies, critically praised, even had a movie made out of it that got some Academy Award nominations. Also out of print. For noir you've got imprints like Hard Case Crime that have rescued dozens of once well known & regarded books from decades of obscurity. I dunno, I think that F/SF is probably about the same as anything else when it comes to "forgetting their greats".