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Biography, Darrell K. Sweet, Fifties Sci-Fi, Lee Sandlin, Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction, Tunnel in the Sky, William H. Patterson Jr., WSJ Book Review, YA Fiction
The writer who instilled my love of science fiction is the incomparable Robert A. Heinlein. As a child of the fifties, I was voracious reader in a time of Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, Boy’s Life magazine, and comic books like Strange Adventures, Tales from the Crypt, and Archie (where Betty and Veronica wore scandalous cheerleader outfits and bikinis).
But Heinlein took me to the stars.