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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968? Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 10:57:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <v8gi9t$28gvp$2@dont-email.me> References: <pan$b5463$2413c85a$6a02c9d4$86929b62@cpacker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:57:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3375d37261238d2da5878a2c57dcb096"; logging-data="2376697"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+H6XRt53va/22MVJuZfgpt" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nqiy5fvQHh5D2xMwq/BU2tYtEY4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <pan$b5463$2413c85a$6a02c9d4$86929b62@cpacker.org> Bytes: 1981 On 7/27/24 00:59, Charles Packer 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&corpus=en- > US-2019&smoothing=0 > > (shortened: https://tinyurl.com/az93kexc ) > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1968_science_fiction_novels I don't think I had discovered SF yet. I do remember reading a lot of Hardy Boys from a complete (I believe) collection my great uncle had and gave to my dad. I could put one of those away in an afternoon. It beat going outside into the Houston heat, humidity, fire ants, and mosquitos. -- ---------------- Dave Scruggs Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired) Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired) Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)