Re: What were you reading in 1968?

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 17:14:53 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

1968 ... Junior high, then.  I'd read a bunch of Hardy Boys
books, one or two of which had SFNal elements in them.  (The
Mad Scientist (TM) with the freeze ray, for instance.)

I recall finding /The Sign of the Crooked Arrow/ to be quite
terrifying. I don't recall much else about them.

Several Tom Swift Jr. novels.  One "Rick Brant", which I
thought was kind of "meh", and never looked for any more.
The "Mike Mars" books.  What little was in the junior high
library, which did include Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit,
Will Travel."  Some Ace Doubles, one of which included "Dome
Around America" and "The Paradox Men".
>
About this same time frame, I read "Soldier, Ask Not", which
I also kind of bounced off of.
>
The town library had Analog Annuals, and a few Best Of
anthologies, but I'm fuzzy on the time frame of when I
got into those.

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"