Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince
It seems like only the other day I ventured forth from my cave with my faithful pet crab and armed with biscuit supplies to place an order for the new J K Rowling, Harry Potter book which was out that July.
Having duly paid a £1.00 deposit and obtained a receipt the shop assistant informed me that the shop would be open from midnight on July 16th if I'd like to obtain it then. I was quite taken aback and was assured that my copy would still be available at 9.00am in the morning.
This got me thinking about all those people who poo-poo Sci-Fi Fantasy novels. What other series of books in the history of 1st editions would excite this amount of fanatiscism. J.K.Rowling has allowed it to be cool to be seen reading!
Not long ago the BBC ran a poll through out the land to find the top 100 favorite books. If I'm not mistaken 4 out of 5 of the top 5 books were Sci-Fi Fantasy.
I rest my case!
The Hermit