{"id":1542,"date":"2013-02-03T21:19:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2013-02-03T21:19:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:19:24","slug":"how-i-first-encountered-heinlein-by-david-silver-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/how-i-first-encountered-heinlein-by-david-silver-2\/","title":{"rendered":"“How I first encountered Heinlein…” by David Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

“How I first encountered Heinlein…”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

David Silver, Heinlein Society Past President<\/span><\/p>\n

Past President Silver on his introduction to the works of Robert A. Heinlein:<\/p>\n

“When I was eleven in 1954, bored tearless one smoggy summer with the books in the children’s library in Los Angeles that I was \u2018allowed\u2019 to read, a librarian handed me a copy of Rocket Ship Galileo, classified as a \u2018juvenile,\u2019 for ages twelve and above, told me to take it home and ask permission from my parents before reading it. I did, and my dad gave me permission. I heard him tell my mother it was the first juvenile he’d ever looked at, or heard of, that had a Jewish boy as one of the principal characters. I read it, loved it all (and could have cared less that one of the boys was Jewish\u2014that was only normal I thought), and returned it to the librarian the next day. She issued me a \u2018juvenile\u2019 card with a pass to any adult science fiction as well, and I then proceeded to read every Heinlein, juvenile or not, in the library within a week or two.”<\/p>\n

“I’ve never stopped reading Heinlein since.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“How I first encountered Heinlein…” David Silver, Heinlein Society Past President Past President Silver on his introduction to the works of Robert A. Heinlein: “When I was eleven in 1954, bored tearless one smoggy summer with the books in the children’s library in Los Angeles that I was \u2018allowed\u2019 to read, a librarian handed me…
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