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Location: Dallas, Texas | Here's another new list to check out: Winston Science Fiction Series All these books were put in over the last few months by WWEnder RhondaK101 with some help from a couple other Uber Users - many thanks as usual. We decided to make the series a list so you can track them like our other lists. If you're not familiar with the Winston series they're a bunch of great old-school young adult books before YA was a thing. Check it out and let us know what you think.  |
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Location: UK | I finally got around to checking out the Winston series,and I am really enjoying them! Wish I had had access to them back in my youth. I never came across such books in our tiny public library here in UK.Very old fashioned,staunchly middle class,I'm sure the old lady-librarian would have had apoplexy at the thought.Luckily Open Library has no less than 21 of the 37 available for borrowing!
So far I've read Evan Hunter's Find the Feathered Serpent where a boy goes back in a time machine to meet the Mayans of Chichen Itza,and Erik the Viking, and Milton Lessor's Stadium Beyond the Stars about an earth boy off to the Space Olympics and making First Contact with aliens. Now I am reading Arthur C Clarke's enjoyable Islands in the Sky about a boy who wins a visit to a space station 500 miles above the earth. Lots of factual detail about space travel etc,but set in a story which would have intrigued young people back then. Pity we cant recapture the simple awe and excitement of those few years before space flight became reality,but the Winston series can give us a flavour of it.
Many thanks to Rhonda for this list! 
Edited by dustydigger 2016-04-11 2:12 AM
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The Winston Science Fiction Series List