lew (12/20/82)
Some of my earliest reading memories include: Galactic Derelict: I was too young for this when I read it. I didn't even know what a derelict was, and I didn't care. I couldn't follow the plot but reading at that age (fifth or sixth grade) was a real mind trip and I loved it. Venus Boy: An incredibly maudlin story of a boy on a jungle-type Venus who could telepathize with the local fauna. I lapped it up. Rusty's Space Ship: This is what you might call infantile, rather than juvenile, science fiction about a boy who builds an orange crate space ship. His sheet metal nose cone turns out to be a saucer from the imperial table of some tempestuous space tyrant. A cartoon dragon shows up to retrieve it and off they go. His sister goes along too. Illustrated. Tom Swift, Jr.: I once read three in one day. I also read one of the originals - Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice. My dad found it in my grandparents' attic. The archaic technology made no difference at all. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew