Science Week 2018: Science fiction has inspired, challenged and helped people find their careers | Opinion

By Juanita Greville
Updated August 18 2018 - 8:38am, first published 8:00am
From science fiction to science reality: Once strictly for science fiction magazines, this 1962 diagram illustrated how man might actually get to the Moon. We have since gone to the Moon and built an international space station
From science fiction to science reality: Once strictly for science fiction magazines, this 1962 diagram illustrated how man might actually get to the Moon. We have since gone to the Moon and built an international space station

I was 12 years old when I read my first science fiction novel. It was the dashing adventures of circus acts/ space spies Jules and Yvette D’Alembert in the Family D’Alembert series by Stephen Goldin and EE “Doc” Smith.

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