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From: JACOB@CMU-CS-C.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: SF & juveniles
Message-ID: <12285@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Oct-83 17:20:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  3 17:20:27 1983
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Why do some people get so upset when someone use the term "Sci-Fi"?
I (and many of my friend's) think this is the sensible way to pronounce
SF. Is there some real reason not to use this term, or is this just another one
of those "real fan" things? Flame off. (Clobberin' off?)

Anyway, on the subject of juvenile SF: I first started reading SF with truly
massive amounts of the (Lester) Del Rey juveniles. There must have been dozens
of them. I have no idea how good they are; I've never had the nerve to go back
and reread them. Some other stuff that I read that I think no-one has mentioned
is a few random books by Alexander Key, several excellent juveniles by Ben
Bova, and at least 2 books by Gordon R. Dickson (and ?) with titles like Secret
Under ____. I moved onto 'adult' books pretty quickly though; I never saw a
library with a good selection of SF books before the Star Wars craze hit, so
I couldn't afford to be fussy.

				[<{(Jacob Butcher)}>]
					^parenthetically speaking...
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