What got you started reading fantasy?
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Gail Carriger would like to know!
For funsies, here's my answer. My first foray into adult SFF came in two parts. I was often sick as a kid, and my mom used to read to me from I, Robot when I was laid up. That would have been when I was 8. The same year (during a healthy streak), I picked up a copy of Piers Anthony's Ogre, Ogre my dad had left lying around. I didn't understand the sexual politics (thank heavens; when I reread the Xanth novels as an adult, I was pretty horrified) but loved the word-play. That's where it all began for me.