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[some_stars]

I spent a couple hours last night and then just now rereading these books again. They were possibly the first science fiction I ever read, and ridiculously formative to all my future ideas about SF. The writing in some parts doesn't quite hold up (and I realize now on this third reread that it has Sexism Issues, of the quiet insidious sort), but some parts really really do, including a few images I've been carrying around in my brain, mostly without realizing, since I was eight years old.

Also I still ship it. Although, you know, when they're a few years older.

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[thingswithwings]

oh my gosh, I ADORED those books as a kid. Read them over and over and over again. Especially the - fourth? - one, the one where they argue for the right of human beings to exist, and make their discovery that they make. <3 <3 <3

now you've made me want to reread them too!

[some_stars]

The fourth one REALLY stuck in my head. When I reread them seven years ago, for the first time in a decade, it really blew my mind just how much of that story and the details stuck with me unconsciously, shaping my expectations and desires re: science fiction. And also just stories in general. I kind of imprinted on them.

You should reread them! They are a delight even without the nostalgia.

[thingswithwings]

yeah, I think I imprinted on them in a similar way - at least, I think those books are part of why I expect villains to become complex people and have redemption arcs, and why I expect my scifi to be humanist, and why I expect feeeeeelings to be important to scifi. I'll have to check for them at the next library book sale or something!

[anatsuno]

this entry + comments are making me add these to the Must Read Sometimes list. :D Thanks!