Ecstatic Days on coming to the SF genres
As always, I have to give credit to my older brother, for inducting me into the secret society of SF readers. Martian Chronicles, I Robot, Heinlein, Zelazny, Vance...my brother taught me early and well. And I ate it all up and started seeking my own.
I do see Jeff's point. Since we lived in NYC, we had easy access to lots of written SF. If we had lived elsewhere, it would have been more difficult. By no means impossible. My friend Scott, who moved around a lot in the heartland, and did not like visual SF much, fell into the F/SF reader genre on his own thanks to the mercies of public libraries ranging from Georgia to Montana.
Posted by Jvstin at November 18, 2009 7:38 AMMy Introduction to F/SF started with this building,( http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.509853,-74.244211&spn=0.000516,0.001709&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.509853,-74.24421&panoid=uB5q-WUsuLtPPRaQcW0CoA&cbp=11,176.57,,0,5 ), the Tottenville public library and the book Invaders from Rigel by Fletcher Pratt. I owned precious few books until we moved to Galloway Ave and I lived close to The Barrett Book Trader.( http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.625372,-74.136147&spn=0.000515,0.001709&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.625372,-74.136148&panoid=lc3liJMUcETSIn4LamYG4Q&cbp=11,243.85,,0,8.14 ) My best friend from High School, Ken Ficara and I would take Harlequin Romance novels our mom’s would read and exchange them for F/SF by the boat-load.
Posted by: Greg"AppleSeed"Weimer at November 18, 2009 2:46 PM