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madbakerThe purpose of this questionnaire is to provide material for a book called (provisionally), The Inter-Galactic Playground of Children's Science Fiction to be published by McFarland Press. The research is supported by the Eileen Wallace Children's Library (University of New Brunswick), Middlesex University (London) and the British Academy.
I didn't give this too much thought, but I'd be interested to compare to y'all.
1. (name)
2. 35
3. USA
4. English
5. male
6. male
7. heterosexual
8. 7 to 8 years old
9. not at first...
10. Robert A. Heinlein, Andre Norton, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. LeGuin, Patricia McKillip
11. anything aimed at the younger set that "talked down"
12. see # 10
13. Heinlein, Jack Vance, Roger Zelazny, Jack Chalker
14. plot, realistic character development
15. #14, plus consistent world-building
16. more of the same, really.
17. yes - ish. More SF than anything else, but I also read history and historical fiction.
18. 10-20%
19. as little as possible
20. very little
21. Starship Troopers perhaps, to the extent that I am more Libertarian than anything else
22. perhaps, in that it encouraged me to think skeptically
23. Libraries! Almost exclusively.
I didn't give this too much thought, but I'd be interested to compare to y'all.
1. (name)
2. 35
3. USA
4. English
5. male
6. male
7. heterosexual
8. 7 to 8 years old
9. not at first...
10. Robert A. Heinlein, Andre Norton, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. LeGuin, Patricia McKillip
11. anything aimed at the younger set that "talked down"
12. see # 10
13. Heinlein, Jack Vance, Roger Zelazny, Jack Chalker
14. plot, realistic character development
15. #14, plus consistent world-building
16. more of the same, really.
17. yes - ish. More SF than anything else, but I also read history and historical fiction.
18. 10-20%
19. as little as possible
20. very little
21. Starship Troopers perhaps, to the extent that I am more Libertarian than anything else
22. perhaps, in that it encouraged me to think skeptically
23. Libraries! Almost exclusively.
