In a message dated 6/18/2004 12:15:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 12 heh? This makes for an interesting question. Can you remember the first SF you ever read, when, and what was it. Me: "Space Ship Under the Apple Tree" I haven't a qlue who the author was. I would guess I was about 7.
By the time I was 12 I had read every SF in the Detroit Public Library plus every one I could find on the news stands. It was easy to decide whether to buy one or not, "haven't read it, buy it". Now there are so many one could not read them all even if one had the money. And most of them are not SF anyway. To me heroic fantasy is barely SF, fairy tales are not. -------------------------- No, not really -- re remembering first book. But I was fortunate in that my older brother had a whole bunch of Ace Doubles (now collector items, and, yes, I kept most of them). I do remember falling in love with Andre Norton's stories, which makes sense, because she originally wrote mainly for juveniles and a lot of her earlier books where about the thrill of space travel and planet discovery. But there were others I remembering liking as well, including, A.E. van Vogt and Clifford D. Simak. And others who were never famous and only wrote one or two books. I don't like fantasy nearly as much. For me, the definition of fantasy is that what underpins the story is magic (hence undefinable and it usually has no consistent rules), and what underlies sci-fi is science -- whether good or bad science, it doesn't really matter to me. Although good science is definitely preferable. But I am no scientist and if they offer a reasonable premise for something like warp drive, say, I'll suspend disbelief and buy it. Marnie aka Doe
