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Will in New Haven  
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 More options Jul 5, 10:28 pm
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From: Will in New Haven <bill.re...@taylorandfrancis.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Jul 5 2008 10:28 pm
Subject: Re: Poll query: what was the first scifi or fantasy book you read?
On Jul 5, 10:30 am, "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 amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked myself,
> where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? Is
> there more like it?
> I was in fourth grade.

Mine was <Between Planets> also by Heinlein. I was sentenced to work
in the school library in Eighth Grade. I had never read _anything_
outside my school work before that because reading didn't involve
being outdoors (although I know now that one CAN read outdoors) I
think I asked Ms. Powell what to do after the my tiny workload was
completed and she pointed to some books that "happened" to be on her
desk. Or maybe I was just standing around look dumb and she suggested
I read one of those books.

I read all four of the Heinlein juvies we had in that library one
after another, read some Andre Norton, memorably <Starman's Son> then
I started looking around the library for other stuff.

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Will in New Haven
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Will

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not
warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of
resistance?" Thomas Jefferson


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