tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post7021610489640634541..comments2024-03-28T04:15:00.814-07:00Comments on Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: ROCKETS TO NOWHEREJerry Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-90557847374446542512018-08-15T08:56:45.979-07:002018-08-15T08:56:45.979-07:00Long vanished by my youth...Dell Laurel Leaf, Scho...Long vanished by my youth...Dell Laurel Leaf, Scholastic and (of all publishers) Thomas Nelson were doing most of the best youth-targeted sf publishing in the '70s. <br /><br />Del Rey was having his serious writer's block problems by the turn of the '60s...wonder if this was an early symptom...certainly, I hated the Paul Fairman ghosted Del Rey novels of the '60s I tried (among the worst things Scholastic kept in print for years). Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-36474887938315206772018-08-10T08:48:51.535-07:002018-08-10T08:48:51.535-07:00Like Rick, I loved the WINSTON SF series of books ...Like Rick, I loved the WINSTON SF series of books as a kid. Loved the covers! I remember reading ROCKETS TO NOWHERE. But my favorites were Poul Anderson's VAULT OF THE AGES and Jack Vance's VANDALS FROM THE VOID.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-70041089185306049812018-08-10T08:37:59.259-07:002018-08-10T08:37:59.259-07:00I loved the Winston books when I was a kid reading...I loved the Winston books when I was a kid reading them, and read every one my library had, which wasn't even a third of the total. I never saw these in a book store or book department of a department store, where the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift Jr. and Nancy Drew dominated. The collector in me, which I fight frequently, wishes I had a pristine set of the whole series. Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.com