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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 08:47:39 -0700
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 07:59:39 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

>Was there anything notable, zeitgeist-wise, in SF in the years=20
>around 1968?
>https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
>content=3Dstruggle%2C%28Frankenstein+*+20%29&year_start=3D1934&year_end=3D=
2019&corpus=3Den-
>US-2019&smoothing=3D0
>
>(shortened: https://tinyurl.com/az93kexc )
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1968_science_fiction_novels

Theoretically, I might be able to find out what I /purchased/ in 1968
and kept all the years since, as they would have an "F-<number>"
written on them, but it would take a while and still wouldn't be
complete.

I mostly read mass-market PBs and SFBC (and MG, LG, DBC and maybe
others) editions, so /in/ 1968 I would likely have been reading things
published in 1967. Or before.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"