The paucity of children's SF, compared to the surfeit of fantasy, is something that has been discussed often, but i'm not sure i've ever heard a convincing explanation. It might well be that children just prefer fantasy, particularly when younger (could it be easier, somehow, like fairy stories - more 'just because' and less rigour - or is this just my hard SF bias showing through?), and that the ones who like SF are quite happy reading adult SF (after all, SF readers are abnormally intelligent).
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The paucity of children's SF, compared to the surfeit of fantasy, is something that has been discussed often, but i'm not sure i've ever heard a convincing explanation. It might well be that children just prefer fantasy, particularly when younger (could it be easier, somehow, like fairy stories - more 'just because' and less rigour - or is this just my hard SF bias showing through?), and that the ones who like SF are quite happy reading adult SF (after all, SF readers are abnormally intelligent).
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