User:Factofic

I live in northern California of the U.S. and have been reading SF/fantasy for most of my life.

The user name is an abbreviation of "science fact to science fiction, via Arthur C. Clarke", a play on how I started reading spec-fic, around the age of 12.

In my local library I was reading books on space travel, including those by Arthur C. Clarke, such as Voices from the Sky and The Challenge of the Spaceship. I then looked through the library card catalogue one day, for anything by Mr. Clarke, and found out he was also the author of "2001: A Space Odyssey". I then went to the SF section (somewhere I'd never gone before) and looked for it and found this and his other books, such as From the Ocean, From the Stars, read them enthusiastically, then started reading books by other SF authors. Later on, I started reading fantasy.

I still am interested in space travel -- go SpaceX.