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user-inactivated · 2890 days ago · link · · parent · post: TIL the woman who started my love affair with reading recently turned 100 - Beverly Cleary, thank you for everything
I had to read C.S. Lewis, because. I read most of the 'classics' but then they accidentally introduced me to Heinlein and Harlan Ellison (yay libraries with reading rooms). Big mistake to throw that kind of bait to a budding nerdling. I think the series I first fell for, the one that made me realize that words on dead trees can be more than the sum of their parts, was E. E. Smith's Lensman books. They are in that 20's-30's EVERYTHING! EXCITING! style, but the stories and settings all hold up nearly a century later. I inhaled everything science fiction I could get my hands on.