On the topic of sci-fi for kids, I do remember a lot of science fiction I adored, but now that I'm trying to parse it out, it was mostly either BY Bruce Coville or something I found through him, especially from the anthologies he put together. Which are also where I learned that short stories are a legitimate form in and of themselves, not just novels that haven't hatched from their eggs yet, which is kind of neither here nor there. Aside from that most of the sci-fi I read was well-aged and inherited from my Dad.
It's also worth noting that the divisions between sci-fi and fantasy used to be a lot less strict than they are. I just got Tales of the Dying Earth for Christmas, and then had to go back and actually read The Dying Earth. Those books are pure fantasy. Swords and sorcery fantasy. Yet they're billed as "science fiction classics." The wall wandered about a lot more back in the day, I think.
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Date: 13 Apr 2011 03:17 am (UTC)On the topic of sci-fi for kids, I do remember a lot of science fiction I adored, but now that I'm trying to parse it out, it was mostly either BY Bruce Coville or something I found through him, especially from the anthologies he put together. Which are also where I learned that short stories are a legitimate form in and of themselves, not just novels that haven't hatched from their eggs yet, which is kind of neither here nor there. Aside from that most of the sci-fi I read was well-aged and inherited from my Dad.
It's also worth noting that the divisions between sci-fi and fantasy used to be a lot less strict than they are. I just got Tales of the Dying Earth for Christmas, and then had to go back and actually read The Dying Earth. Those books are pure fantasy. Swords and sorcery fantasy. Yet they're billed as "science fiction classics." The wall wandered about a lot more back in the day, I think.