I wasn’t sure I would call it a children’s book, as the nude paintings were pretty much soft erotica, but I bought it because I collect mythology and it was quite beautiful. At an antique store, I came across a beautiful, painted children’s book about Orpheus. Mostly tragic, and the gods are straight-up dicks, but entertaining. I’m a huge devotee of mythology, and my introduction, of course, was Greek Myth. Now, in my fifties, crotchety and dissatisfied with this newfangled thing that the Big Six assures me is science fiction, but that I’m pretty sure is not, I’m catching up on the back list.Īnd it’s an odd connection that led me to Norton. The only other notable authors I can mention from my teens would by John Varley and Vonda McIntyre. Still, at the time I was devouring every Star Trek novel and fanzine there was, which kept me pretty busy, and didn’t leave room for discovering too many new authors. Mikolaycak had a romantic’s eye for the human form, and his cover art for Norton’s books, while understated in color, were eye-catching. So Norton got neglected on my reading list, even though I recalled the beautiful Charles Mikolaycak covers from the shelves at my local B.
Clarke I knew from 2001, which was a movie and a comic book series, and thus more prone to attract a kid’s attention. Similarly, although he’s one of the “old guys,” Arthur C. He came to my attention because he wrote the Star Trek Logs, and pretty much every movie novelization there was in the SF and horror genres. One exception to the “old guy” list was Alan Dean Foster, whose first novel was published in 1972. The SF collection was more likely to be the tried and true novels of ten years ago than anything up to date. What I had was the school library at a small, private school. I didn’t have access to SF magazines as a kid. Norton was writing in the 1940s, but her work was predominantly featured in magazines. Heinlein wrote juveniles beginning in 1948, Asimov published Foundation in 1951, Bradbury published The Martian Chronicles in 1950. When I did, I started with Bradbury, Williamson, Clarke and Blish, segued to Asimov and then to Heinlein.Īll of these authors, while around the same age as Norton, were published in book format long before she was.
By “relatively new,” I mean her books began being published around the time I was born, and I began reading SF at age 8. But I think it’s like this: I started reading SF at a time when Norton was still a relatively new author. I’ve never read Norton, which is odd, her being one of the most celebrated science fiction authors of her generation.
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