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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, 03 Aug 2024 10:43:52 -0700
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 17:14:53 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

>1968 ... Junior high, then.  I'd read a bunch of Hardy Boys
>books, one or two of which had SFNal elements in them.  (The
>Mad Scientist (TM) with the freeze ray, for instance.)

I recall finding /The Sign of the Crooked Arrow/ to be quite
terrifying. I don't recall much else about them.

>Several Tom Swift Jr. novels.  One "Rick Brant", which I
>thought was kind of "meh", and never looked for any more.
>The "Mike Mars" books.  What little was in the junior high
>library, which did include Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit,
>Will Travel."  Some Ace Doubles, one of which included "Dome
>Around America" and "The Paradox Men".
>
>About this same time frame, I read "Soldier, Ask Not", which=20
>I also kind of bounced off of.
>
>The town library had Analog Annuals, and a few Best Of
>anthologies, but I'm fuzzy on the time frame of when I
>got into those.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"