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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:49:23 -0700
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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.

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