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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Another introduction...
- Message-ID: <1ek1ihINNhl7@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:57:52 GMT
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- Windsinger writes:
- >>"The first science fiction book I remember picking up was a trilogy
- >>by John Christopher - I think the first book was 'THe City of Gold
- >>and Lead' or something like that. This was sometime in early grade
- >>school. I was fascinated by it, though, and picked up everything of
- >>his the library had - then moved on to Bradbury, then Asimov...
- >>by then I was hooked!"
-
- >"The White Mountain", "City of Gold and Lead", and -- darn, what is the
- >third one called. John Christopher's "Tripods" trilogy, whatever. "The
- >White Mountain" might easily be the first SF I read as well, I certainly
- >read it as a pre-teen. I might have started on my father's collection of
- >John Wyndham before that...
-
- Abner laughs.
-
- "We both forgot the third book in the series! I really am going to have to
- go home and check. "The Pools of Fire", maybe? That doesn't sound quite
- right ..."
-