Maybe the way you read scifi could be described as 'passively consuming'. Me, I engaged actively in whatever I was reading as a kid especially the genre stuff.

Maybe the way you read scifi could be described as 'passively consuming'. Me, I engaged actively in whatever I was reading as a kid especially the genre stuff. We really could use some romanticism of some things from the past. While not always correct, I certainly prefer and enjoy those memories to this barren seeming 'reality' typical of these revisitations of the past for 'enlightened' deconstruction.