> -----Original Message----- > From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net] > I'm sure I was picking new authors on my own at 9. Maybe > earlier. Until I was in 8th grade, I wasn't around anybody > else who was into fantasy and SF, so I didn't get many suggestions. Same here, at least, that were I my age group. Of course, I'm not sure how many of my *cough* peers could actually read... Fortunately, my mother had a great many books covering a broad range of Fantasy and SF plus some Mystery and other things. Throw in the few westerns I liked from Grandma's collection, and some of the stuff my Great Grandmother liked (I'm not sure where those fall) I had a pretty broad selection of books to choose from. None of them really made _recommendations_, just didn't stop me from reading any of it.