![]() ![]() In readerly terms, it is like finding a new room in your house, simultaneously like but unlike the rooms that are already there. ![]() ![]() There is a sense of reading a past part of oneself that one had never before known, of excavating a past level of reading that had never in fact existed and questions being answered that one never knew one had. Reading a book like this is very different both from reading a classic one has never bothered to pick up, like The Pickwick Papers, or reading a new novel just favorably reviewed in the Times Book Review. It was an exhilarating but odd experience reading Engdahl's books-books that one "should have read" around the time they were published, but did not. As a science-fiction fan I was chagrined to have missed out on books that, just from the bare description given them by my friends, I was certain would be of appeal. As a literature scholar, I was embarrassed that I had not heard of this writer. ![]() Her name came up when several women of about my own age, all scientists of one or another sort, mentioned to me that Engdahl's writings had helped spur their interest in science. Though Sylvia Engdahl published fiction in the 1970s and early 1980s, I did not hear of her work until the early 1990s. ![]()
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