SF

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Andrew comments:
"> A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle)
>      This is the book that got me started reading SF in the first place.
 
I read this when I was 8 and have never even seen copy since (let
alone recall what it is about) but I remember it well because it
inspired me more than any other book to read read read like fury as a
child"


I don't know about the UK, but AWIT and its sequels are *very* accessible
in US bookstores.  The Children's Theatre of Minneapolis did a stage version
of the book a year or two ago.


No one has mentioned starting out on Walter Miller's A CANTICLE FOR
LIEBOWITZ.  I was first hooked on an earlier short version that was
later expanded into novel form.  But then I 
was usually more interested in short SF, which seemed more to the point
than full novels.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)