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I think it would be better to retweet the correction that it's the 7th of September.
(Not meant to sound snarky, just letting you know.)

Then you get the accidental favourite where suddenly a character you named "Rat" is becoming important but you associate him with the name too much to change it...

Thank you!

I know people have been avoiding it because of the Incident even though I've also seen people here saying not to do that because it just makes things worse for creators. I'm still happy to buy on there if you have a link to your book there.

Is there a non-Amazon way to get it?

I enjoyed quite a bit of Clarke and Asimov as a teenager--but only after getting into science fiction via Doctor Who, and also I read them of my own accord and not because I was told "you must read this, it's a classic". And some other "classics of the genre" were very offputting to me even so.

And some of them are better read when someone is old enough to understand the ways in which they're a product of their time (or in some cases, *more* prejudiced than most people of their time).

I think that's true, but I don't think that all of these writers are necessarily the best books to give to a child as the first science fiction books they read--even though I enjoyed some Verne and Asimov in my childhood myself (but it was after getting into science fiction via Doctor Who).

I can agree with not dissing the Crypt Keeper on principle but I'm now very curious what this was in response to.

Unfortunately what you say about a one-size-fits-all-system being economically necessary might well be true. But while you might be right about the worst issues, I think there's other bad treatment of children that's socially *encouraged* so supervision won't solve it, though that varies culturally.