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I was always the scientific member of the family- chemistry sets and meccano, keeping caterpillars and developing my own photographs, and we were a reading family, so it was just natural that sort of stuff would gravitate my way. I don't think there was a particular point when I said "Hey, I'm not just a fast reader, I'm a science fiction reader", it just became apparent when my local public lbrary had no more of that genre I hadn't read.