| Re: Arthur C Clarke
The first "real science" science fiction book I read was an Arthur C. Clarke - I would have been about nine, trapped in my bedroom with chicken pox or measles or something, and, sick of going to the childrens section of the library trying to find something I hadn't already read, my parents gave me "Earthlight" to shut me up. The start of the rot. He was also the first "scientific" sci-fi where I found a technical error (which I pointed out to my general science teacher, who egreed with me, and hadn't read the book, so borrowed it from me) I may not have liked everything he wrote, and frequently his superb short stories worked better than his novels, but I'll go on reading everything he writes as long as he can keep writing. |