The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: The X Factor by Andre Norton (1965) (Not long ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing over 75 vintage science fiction, crime, and adventure paperbacks. He is reading all of them. This is book number 37.) “The golden age of comics is five,” goes an old quote variously attributed to Roy Thomas and Comics Buyer’s Guide editor (and friend of the column) Maggie Thompson. I’d argue that the golden age of science fiction is roughly around 12 or 13. Or at least that’s when the stuff grabbed me hardest. Star Trek was a gateway drug that led to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 that led to Arthur C. Clarke that led to Isaac Asimov to the too-heady-for-me-at-the-time Stanislaw Lem and so on and so forth. That interest didn’t blossom into a lifelong love, however. By the end...
- 5/15/2008
- avclub.com
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