SF

[Henry Musikar]

How about "Flatland" by Abbott. Along with "A Wrinkle in Time," 
Flatland gave me the feeling that all I had to do was look the right 
way and I'd see other dimensions that I was missing.

On 27 Mar 97 at 14:47, LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> 
> 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)
> 
> 

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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