Melding the Minds of Adults With Those of Teenagers!

To make up for the quiet on this blog today, I not only had a review at ComicMix (see link below), but I was also part of the latest Mind Meld hullabaloo at SF Signal, where I and a host of science fictional luminaries answered the question "Which young adult sf/f titles, if any, would you recommend to an adult reader who would not otherwise consider reading YA fiction because they think it's only suitable for kids?"

Among my respected compatriots: authors John Scalzi, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Delia Sherman; editors Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Sharyn November, Jonathan Strahan, and Ellen Datlow; and all-around smart people Farah Mendelsohn and Marianne Case.

Among the books I mentioned: Jonathan Stroud's magnificent "Bartimaeus Trilogy:" The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, and Ptolemy's Gate; Steven Gould's Jumper; Daniel Pinkwater's 5 Novels; Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea; Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle; and Justine Larbalestier's Magic or Madness. Oh, and Lemony Snicket's The Bad Beginning.