Other than a few notable exceptions, I gave it up for lack of anybody to show me where the good stuff was. I just assumed it was all crap. About this age, I started to see through a lot of the holes in the sci-fi I was reading.
My Middle school library had shelves of crappy sci-fi. The nail in the coffin was a book about a kid who traveled to mars in a spaceship he built in his backyard. He got there and discovered he could breathe the atmosphere just fine.
Right about that time I discovered Larry Bond, Tom Clancy, etc. I didn't get back into sci-fi until I had burned out on and given up Clancy as his politics became more transparant and Limbaughish within his books. Interestingly this coincided with my discovery of the MSNBC Space/Science bulletin Boards which is part of the HZ pedigree. That resparked a desire to read good sci-fi and I got a lot of suggestions where to start from these message boards.
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That's about the time I gave it up.
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