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From: CARROLL@USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: SF for kids
Message-ID: <11941@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 14:37:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 14:37:07 1983
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   My first two SF books were "The Secret of Saturn's Rings" by Donald
A. Wolheim, and "Operation Springboard", author unknown.  I think I was
about eight at the time.  I also read my first comic book then, a DC
mag, "Action", starring the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century.
If anyone knows the author to "O.S.", please clue me in.

  Other goodies were:
	
	The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald
	The Mad Scientists' Club
	Spaceship Under the Apple Tree	( Especially good was the part
					where the alien didn't want the
					boy to go to "General Store": he
					thought his visit to Earth would
					be revealed to the military.)
	The Time Machine series	( These two books were published by the
				Boy Scouts, I think.  Two present-day scouts
				find a time-machine, and team up with a bald,
				toothless scout from the future and a slave-
				gladiator from ancient Rome.  I remember a
				part in which they make an enemy think he's
				surrounded by time machines, by re-visiting
				the same time period again and again.)
	Black and Blue Magic	( By Zilpha Keatley Snyder.  A fantasy.)
	The Tom Swift series  	( flying lab, jetmarine, electronic 
				retroscope, triphibian atomicar...)
	The Space Eagle		( published by Whitman- you know, those
				hardcover books in the same rack as coloring 
 				books, with a picture on every other page- 
				Space Eagle was good, with his SWIFT: Space 
				Warp Infinity-Finity Transport.)

   Also read lots of comics, especially DC- Superman, Superboy, Action,
Batman, World's Finest (Superman-Batman team-ups).  Good stuff in the mid
to late 60's.

Steve

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