The Asimov I love best are things like his science essays... all horribly dated now, but they don't suffer as much from his characterization failings. Otherwise, I dearly love the stuff with Daneel.
The Rolling Stones is pretty much my favorite Heinlein juvenile. It's chronologically something of a sequel to Moon, but it's a lot more fun as pure story. The shorts with female protagonists are also damn fun, and I find it deeply irritating that for the most part they were considered unpublishable on their own.
I bounced off Andre Norton quite hard as a kid, and have never managed to unbounce. I'm not really sure why... Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey worked a lot better for me.
I dearly love Arthur C Clarke's Dolphin Island, despite it being hideously schlocky. I also haven't reread it since I was about 12 because IT IS SCHLOCK. (it's the first SF book I ever read... at something like age 7 or 8)
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Date: 2010-08-19 07:20 pm (UTC)The Rolling Stones is pretty much my favorite Heinlein juvenile. It's chronologically something of a sequel to Moon, but it's a lot more fun as pure story. The shorts with female protagonists are also damn fun, and I find it deeply irritating that for the most part they were considered unpublishable on their own.
I bounced off Andre Norton quite hard as a kid, and have never managed to unbounce. I'm not really sure why... Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey worked a lot better for me.
I dearly love Arthur C Clarke's Dolphin Island, despite it being hideously schlocky. I also haven't reread it since I was about 12 because IT IS SCHLOCK. (it's the first SF book I ever read... at something like age 7 or 8)