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[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1730770]

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Re: What brought this up?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

At some point I'd like to see if there's anyone under, oh, 60, who heard of Myer's Silverlock through a means other than the 1980ish reprint.

Re: What brought this up?

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Ah. I found Cabell the same way I found most writers in those days: systematically going through the shelves of the Worthington Public Library for anything I hadn't read yet that didn't look boring. Since I was a methodical child and teenager, I'm much better read in authors whose names begin with A-O than those whose names begin with (let us say) P-Z.

I never liked H. Beam Piper; it's possible the Worthington Public Library didn't own Little Fuzzy in the sixties and seventies.

Re: What brought this up?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The edition of Little Fuzzy with the Michael Whelan cover was my introduction to Piper. It is for me the One True Cover for that book.

Re: What brought this up?

[elsue.livejournal.com]

I actually much preferred The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter.

Re: What brought this up?

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure; I was told about it by friends, and it was worth discussing because it was available. I think some of the friends already knew about it, but I can't from this distance be sure.

(I'm under 60. By several years. Almost 5.)

Re: What brought this up?

[sanskritabelt.livejournal.com]

I read it because people on rasfw were talking it up hardcore in the 90s, but I don't know if that's too 80s for you.

Re: What brought this up?

[dsrtao]

A friend of mine has loaned that to me; I should either read it or give it back. Which?

Re: What brought this up?

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Being as I was born in 1973, no.