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They say "the Golden Age of #ScienceFiction is 12" - that is, the thing that makes "the good old stuff" so good is its suitability for preteens, and rereading that stuff as an adult (much less continuing to read it in adulthood) is a childish regression.

1/ The Tor Books cover for Ste...
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It's not true.

Or at least, it's not *always* true. Sometimes, the reason a novel sucks us in at 12 is that it is *amazing*, and, moreover, full of layers that make the book get *better* with re-readings, as new layers are revealed by our own maturity.

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One of life's finest pleasures: discovering a complete series of novels as an adult, devouring them to the end, and discovering that, while you'd have happily inhabited the author's world for many more volumes, you are *eminently* satisfied with the conclusion. 1/
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I just had this experience and I am still basking in the warm glow of having had such a thoroughly fulfilling imaginary demi-life for half a year. 3/
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