"The Forgotton Door" was the first book that I fell in love with. Mine was the only name on the library card glued to the back of paperback jacket. My second and third grade teacher encouraged my to move on but my grade school and later high school carried very little science fiction titles. The public library boasted of a bigger selection, but within a couple of years I devoured all the works of Ray Bradbury, Halan Ellison and Robert Silverberg that they shelved.
During the summers our family would set out on a two week vacation to campsites and historic places and Mom re more...