In my childhood I went through a period where I only read sci-fi, borrowed in batches of 7 books a week from the city library. Sci-fi wasn't in a separate sect

In my childhood I went through a period where I only read sci-fi, borrowed in batches of 7 books a week from the city library. Sci-fi wasn't in a separate section, but the library had color codes for different genres, marked by a dot on the spine of the books. Sci-fi's dot was yellow, and it wasn't yet lumped into the weird 'Sci-Fi and Fantasy' arranged marriage of later. I started scanning for yellow dots and reading through the shelves in alphabetical order, backtracking my way sometimes to pick up on books that were borrowed by others, or just added new in previous passes. For that reason Brunner came rather early with pearls like 'Stand on Zanzibar' and of course 'The Shockwave Rider' most certainly fueling the habit. Even back then at a very young age I felt the dystopian writers for the most part were more thinking in terms of complete system dynamics while the utopian writers had a more narrow view and thus it comes as no surprise that the former turned out to be less blind-sighted than the latter in hindsight.