Extollager
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Very briefly, some early imaginative experiences that I associate with the quickening of interest in sf/f:
I liked fairy tales and mythology.
As a boy, I saw some portions (in one or more books) of Zallinger's Peabody Museum dinosaur mural. Polgreen's illustrations for an edition of Roy Gallant's Exploring the Planets also moved me. The school "book club" was a way to get things such as a paperback of Doyle's Lost World.
I was present for the first Star Trek broadcast in the US in 1966, and was already (at 11 years old) drawn to sf. I got Blish's retellings of ST episdoes as they came out, and even had a copy of the LP Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space. I think I'd read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings before my 12th birthday (1967). Loved the Narnian books and Lloyd Alexander's Prydain quintet. My imagination was captivated by Watkins-Pitchford's The Little Grey Men, with its excellent scratchboard illustrations by the author. The "Wishnik"-type troll dolls appealed to me (a boy) as action figures for use in improvised storytelling. I began to read Marvel comics with Thor #140, which went on sale in March 1967.
They year in which I was 11 years old was perhaps the most important in my reading life, in some ways.
I liked fairy tales and mythology.
As a boy, I saw some portions (in one or more books) of Zallinger's Peabody Museum dinosaur mural. Polgreen's illustrations for an edition of Roy Gallant's Exploring the Planets also moved me. The school "book club" was a way to get things such as a paperback of Doyle's Lost World.
I was present for the first Star Trek broadcast in the US in 1966, and was already (at 11 years old) drawn to sf. I got Blish's retellings of ST episdoes as they came out, and even had a copy of the LP Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space. I think I'd read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings before my 12th birthday (1967). Loved the Narnian books and Lloyd Alexander's Prydain quintet. My imagination was captivated by Watkins-Pitchford's The Little Grey Men, with its excellent scratchboard illustrations by the author. The "Wishnik"-type troll dolls appealed to me (a boy) as action figures for use in improvised storytelling. I began to read Marvel comics with Thor #140, which went on sale in March 1967.
They year in which I was 11 years old was perhaps the most important in my reading life, in some ways.