Bamman, Henry; Odell, William; Whitehead, Robert -- Milky Way
Bamman, Henry; Odell, William; Whitehead, Robert -- Ice Men of Rime
Bamman, Henry; Odell, William; Whitehead, Robert -- Space Pirate
Bamman, Henry; Odell, William; Whitehead, Robert -- Bone People
Bamman, Henry; Whitehead, Robert -- City Beneath the Sea
Bamman, Henry; Whitehead, Robert -- The Lost Uranium Mine
My re-acquisition of some of the earliest SF I can remember reading.
Earliest that I read, I mean, not the earliest-written. I'm pretty sure
I was five when I read these. (They're aimed at eight-year-old readers.)
The writing is simplistic, as I expected, and very Seventies, as I had
forgotten -- women and minorities very pointedly in the starship crews,
but no real attention to subverting gender stereotypes beyond that. Oh
well. Things have improved. As to the stories, they're quite effective;
more SFnal and complex than the notional eight-year-old audience might
lead you to expect. I think the authors paid more mind to dialing down
their vocabulary and sentence structure than they did to simplifying the
plots. All to my benefit, I'm sure. Some genuinely clever bits, some
genuinely creepy (to a kid) bits.
Books I have acquired recently
All the books I own