The Girl from Texas

neil-gaiman:

I was six, and our au pair/live-in-babysitter, who was not around for longer than a few weeks, and was English, but had just come back from America, had this poster on the wall by her bed. I really liked her. I asked her to explain the poster to me, as I was intrigued, and she told me about Mr Spock, and that he had green blood. I stared at the poster, wondering how you could tell that he had green blood.

She also had a copy of James Blish’s STAR TREK  (later renamed Star Trek 1) which she left behind when she left, and was the first adult SF book I remember attempting, long before the show made it across the Atlantic to the UK.

It’s odd and nice to think that my experience of adult SF started with this poster.

(via ramblingsarah)