Tommowro When The War Began
Someone recently said that some of the best speculative fiction (SF) being written today is being written for young adults. I'm sure Card said it, I heard Jane Yolen say it, and Locus magazine printed it. I said it a couple of times at the 56th World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, MD this past August to impress people. The reason you can say that without plagiarism is because it's true. If you've spent any time reading young adult SF, you are as expert on the topic as Card, Yolen, and Locus. There's good stuff in the young adult section.
I've been given carte blanche to define "lost" in anyway that works for this column. If you've not experienced much young adult SF, then the books I want to review this month are lost. Lost to you and countless others who never stray past the adult SF section.
With the end of the cold war, we don't think often about being invaded. But, I'm old enough to have been in fourth or fifth grade during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I didn't......
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