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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
Date: 27 Jul 2024 17:41:08 GMT
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In article <robertaw-411AE4.09492327072024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>In article <pan$b5463$2413c85a$6a02c9d4$86929b62@cpacker.org>,
> Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>
>> Was there anything notable, zeitgeist-wise, in SF in the years 
>> around 1968?
>> https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
>> content=struggle%2C%28Frankenstein+*+20%29&year_start=1934&year_end=2019&corpu
>> s=en-
>> US-2019&smoothing=0
>> 
>> (shortened: https://tinyurl.com/az93kexc )
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1968_science_fiction_novels
>
>I didn't buy very many SF titles (if any) in 1968. I did have access to 
>libraries and read many library books. I have read many of the 42 titles 
>in that list from Wikipedia, but, IIRC, not that many of them in 1968.
>

I would have been 7.  I suspect I was reading Tom Swift Jr. books
by "Victor Appleton II".  I know I had them then, and was probably
working at figuring out the whole "reading" thing in first grade.
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