Is Young Adult SF/F Too Explicit?

[ellen_datlow]

I participated in this week's Mind Meld:
Is Young Adult SF/F Too Explicit?

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Great answer. I remember getting the "adult" card at the library after I finished all the kiddie books. First thing I went for was Naked Lunch. The librarian warned me, "This book isn't what you think it's going to be!" and I said, "We'll see about that." She was right.

First adult book I bought with money: The First Omni Book of Science Fiction, edited by you.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

You flatterer, you ;-)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

But seriously, I find the question weird because of my experiences...(and yours, and a lot of other readers')

[vylar-kaftan.livejournal.com]

A library with an adult card? Is that common? I don't think I've ever seen it.

I think I checked out children, teen, and adult books without much preference between the ages of 7 to 18 (although my choices got weightier as I got older). I remember really liked Harlan Ellison's story "A Boy and His Dog", which I found on the bookshelves at home. I was 11.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

My childhood library had one as well. It wasn't so much that you couldn't check out adult books with a children's one, but your parent had to be there if you did. (It also had a much smaller limit on how many books you could check out.)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember this (it was wayyy in my past :-) )