From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!seismo!rocheste!heliotis
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: My origins into SF
Article-I.D.: rocheste.299
Posted: Wed Dec  8 10:00:55 1982
Received: Fri Dec 10 03:38:10 1982


This should also go to net.jokes!  The first SF book I read as a kid was
"The Gilead Bomb".  I stayed up late into the night to finish it--it was
the first time I had read an entire book in one shot.  
My intellectual peak came a few years later when I read Asimov's
Foundation Trilogy (which is now a 'Quadragy').  Does everyone know about
the "YES" song about it?
Things went downhill after I joined the SF Book Club, and never sent in
the little cards saying I did *NOT* want the selection-of-the-month.  My
parents ended up with a pile of bills, and I ended up with a shelf full
of unread books.

By the way, I read "HARLIE" recently, on a recommendation.  I thought it
had very few redeeming aspects.  If anyone disagrees, I'd love to hear
some opinions.

						Jim Heliotis