Sci Fi Books

This is probably an unpopular take, but while I understand the importance of the legendary hard scifi writers like Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke, etc. to popular fiction and absolutely respect and enjoy their ideas, I never found any of them to be particularly great writers in the sense of crafting prose that draws you in or has great readability. I always found their stuff very dense and matter of fact and was never really pulled into their works because of that.

I contrast that with someone like Frank Herbert who, despite having some really out there ideas, I always found easy to read because his previous career as a journalist gave him an accessible way with words.

Just my experience.