Read Firestar as a teenager and liked it, so I went to a meet-the-author event at a local bookshop where he was promoting the next book in that series. When he

Read Firestar as a teenager and liked it, so I went to a meet-the-author event at a local bookshop where he was promoting the next book in that series. When he opened up for questions, he responded to mine by mocking my speech (I guess I had a nerdy voice like probably many of us here) and didn't even answer the question. Really turned me off the author. And that was before I grew older and wiser and came to realize how that series was largely libertarian agitprop and stereotypes of various demographics -- like Poul Anderson's Harvest of Stars series from the same era, maybe it is something that only adolescents can really love.