Oh, I'm very sorry that my talk of rereads made you feel left out. My own route to sf/f was very different to that of people who read the (old, white, male-authored, approved) 'classics' - and bears a lot of similarity to that of fozmeadows, as we are both Australian women of a similar age - and I sometimes feel lost in a sea of references to literature I did not grow up reading.

Sometimes I wish the book blogging community could agree to reviewing a book from the backlist of their favorite authors once every quarter so I could find totally new to me authors to make up for my terrible learning in SF before 2000.

I've often thought of running some kind of series on 'under-appreciated books' that would focus on books from off the beaten track, but the time never seemed to be right. My intention was always to have guest writers from a range of different ages and backgrounds, but it seemed too difficult to organise while I was working on my PhD (which I was doing until June) and so I never really did much to get the series off the ground. Oh well.