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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Five Works Inspired by the Legend of Atlantis
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In article <v9nsbs$1484$3@usenet.csail.mit.edu>,
Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <v9nmlt$t7b$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>>Five Works Inspired by the Legend of Atlantis
>>
>>The Lost City of Atlantis has been inspiring wacky theories and speculative 
>>fiction ever since Plato made it up.
>>
>>https://reactormag.com/five-works-inspired-by-the-legend-of-atlantis/
>
>I have actually read the Norton!
>
>The library I grew up in seemed to have had, at some point before I
>started going there, a librarian who considered all SF to be
>"juvenile".  As a result, *all* of Norton's SF was still shelved in
>the YA section twenty years later.  (If my fallible memory isn't
>acting up, they seemed to have stopped buying Norton some time in the
>early 1970s.)  I have strong memories of reading OPERATION TIME SEARCH
>but could never remember the title.  (I also read MOON OF THREE RINGS
>and EXILES OF THE STARS, and probably some others that didn't make as
>distinct an impression on me.  There was a whole shelf of Norton, and
>I don't know why I glommed onto these three titles in particular.)
>
>-GAWollman

Pretty much all Norton *is* YA, or acceptable as YA.  Did she ever
write a sex scene?  (Maybe in Witchworld, which I saw as "romancey"
and never got into?)
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