Catherine Asaro and physics in 'hard' SF:

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[Alicia Henn]

Heinlein and Asimov as children's SF? She said something interesting
there. It WAS what was available to kids (like me) then, but was it
really for children?

It makes me wonder if aiming SF at kids by making it more cartoonish
or making it easier to understand is the wrong approach.

Alicia

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[Eric Scoles]

I can't remember ever thinking it was the right approach. And when you were a "YA", wouldn't you have thought it was a pretty annoying idea?

Maybe we're an unusual audience, but I really don't think so: I've often found YA-targeted books to be more interesting and challenging than many mainstream books, and I wonder if there's not a reason for that. [waits for comeback...] I don't know if that's a rule or not, but my personal opinion is that books for kids should be fairly challenging. First, how else do you encourage them to grow? (As though most could be dis-couraged.) Second, especially in adolescence kids will often have contempt for something that they see as talking down to them. (Arguably, rightly so.)