Comments Elsewhere

I’m away from my books at the moment so I can’t give you the quote yet, but somewhere in the Letters there’s a draft of a letter that he wrote in response to a press interview from later in his life. I don’t precisely remember the context, but he mentioned along the way that outside of his professional studies, he read very little other than fairy tales and science fiction, mentioning Isaac Asimov (which he misspelled “Azimov”) by name. If that’s a reading habit that persisted from earlier in his life, rather than one he picked up later, then he may very well have read Wells and Verne as a younger man.

I’ll post the quote and the reference when I get back home in a couple of days…