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user-inactivated  ·  3125 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's create a list of essential scifi books

Yeah, the Tom Swift books don't actually hold up all that well, so don't go into them expecting something great. They're fun to read though cause they're a part of pop culture much like Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boys. Speaking of, I see that a lot of the old Gold Key comics such as Turok, Solar, and Magnus were recently republished and I'm a bit tempted to get a few just to check them out. Sadly, they seem to be a bit on the expensive side so I wouldn't be able to justify getting them all.

I haven't read any Jules Verne, but I think Arthur Conan Doyle was a contemporary of his and I did read The Lost World which was a lot of fun, though I don't remember much of it.