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Kev - aeronautical engineer based in UK.
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Kev - aeronautical engineer based in UK; ex Royal Air Force (No. 101 Squadron, Bomber Command)

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Congratulations to ISFDB for such a wonderful resource.

I started reading science fiction when I was a boy. Then, much later, Chris Foss met Doc Smith and everything changed.

I would spend as much time in the worlds of the covers as I would in the novels. Even now, standing in the light of a striking sunset, it's easy to imagine it's an exotic atmosphere on an alien world.

My collection is over a thousand books and I find that over half of the printings are not in the database. Guess I've got to buy a scanner - and not a dark one...


Kev - aeronautical engineer based in UK; ex Royal Air Force (No. 101 Squadron, Bomber Command)