{"id":768,"date":"2008-06-30T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=768"},"modified":"2008-07-01T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:31:51","slug":"classic-young-adult-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Classic Young Adult SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>io9 has a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5015478\/six-astounding-young-adult-novels-of-the-pre+potter-era\">list<\/A> of six &#8220;Pre-Potter&#8221; novels that might hook young readers on science fiction.  It&#8217;s a nice sampling of classic authors, and it&#8217;s hard to fault their choices.<\/p>\n<p>They mention one Heinlein juvie (<I>The Rolling Stones<\/I>), although I think I&#8217;d probably choose something like <I>Have Space Suit, Will Travel<\/I> or <I>Red <del datetime=\"2008-07-01T18:31:40+00:00\">Mars<\/del> Planet<\/I> instead.  I can&#8217;t argue with the Madeleine L&#8217;Engle selection; if pressed to name the YA novel that hooked the most kids on SF, <I>A Wrinkle in Time<\/I> is probably the one I&#8217;d mention.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Are there any YA books that have been glaringly omitted from this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>io9 has a list of six &#8220;Pre-Potter&#8221; novels that might hook young readers on science fiction. It&#8217;s a nice sampling of classic authors, and it&#8217;s hard to fault their choices. They mention one Heinlein juvie (The Rolling Stones), although I think I&#8217;d probably choose something like Have Space Suit, Will Travel or Red Mars Planet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}