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From: "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@csuohio.edu>
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Subject: Re: Good SF for teens, especially boys?
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:06:47 -0400
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:55:43 GMT, Wayne Throop
<thro...@sheol.org> wrote in <news:1350881743@sheol.org> in
rec.arts.sf.written:

>:: If Norton and Heinlein, why not Wyndham? 

>: t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
>: The only things of his I can think of (Triffids, Midwhich Coocoos)
>: don't seem very teen-boy friendly. 

> I'd add the Crysalids (aka, Re-Birth).  
> When I was a teen boy, I found Wyndham's books friendly enough.

I found them a bit on the dull side.  I wasn't all that keen
on John Christopher, either, but he'd be a better choice.

Brian