On 13-9-2015 12:31, Stephen wrote:
> On 9/13/2015 8:05 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> A treasure trove!
>
> No a house of ill repute. Where those poor, sad people came to get their
> fix of trash. That's how SF was thought of, at the time.

That is true. My father was a fan of detective and horror stories but 
frowned upon SF while otoh he was genuinely interested in everything 
concerning space ;-)

It must be said that some of the vintage could be openly fascist 
sometimes. The Lensman and Skylark books for example. I think that those 
aspects contributed to my father's opinion.

>
>> No, I did not have that chance. For many years SF was
>> restricted to Jules Verne, but I was hooked early on somehow, not in the
>> least by the international space competition (Sputnik!). I still can
>> remember putting my ear to the /wireless/ to listen to its
>> bip-bip-bip..... :-)
>
>
> That is on the far edge of my memory. :-)
> The space race was exciting viewed from afar.
>

We have a small age difference, young man ;-)

-- 
Thomas

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