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Dorothy J Heydt  
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 More options Jul 5, 9:23 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:23:47 GMT
Local: Sat, Jul 5 2008 9:23 pm
Subject: Re: Poll query: what was the first scifi or fantasy book you read?
In article <7c73f095-d748-43f0-be1e-662cdb881...@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,

bayno...@yahoo.com <bayn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was
>still fairly new.....
>I was in fourth grade.

Hm.  Counting on my fingers, I think I was also in fourth grade
when I read an SF *book*.  I was reading SF before that, because
my mother did; she bought _Astounding_ and (when they started up in
the early fifties) _F&SF_ and _Galaxy_.  But the first novel I
read was Stanton A. Coblenz's _Into Plutonian Depths_, which was
published as a novel in 1950 but had previously been serialized
in (says ISFDB) _Wonder Stories Quarterly,_ Spring 1931.  And it
showed its age; but I was eight years old and my critical
faculties were not well-developed.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djhe...@kithrup.com      


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