The first hard SF I can remember reading was a YA, Alan Nourse???s _The Universe Between_, at age twelve; around the same time, my father introduced me to his collection of Judith Merril ???Best??? anthologies, and I also found _Dangerous Visions_ in the library. (Apparently somebody had left it on the shelf; when I brought it up to the front desk to check out, the librarian glanced at it and said