When I was seven or eight years old,I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house,in Waukegan,Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing Amazing Stories,with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.Soon after,the creative beast in me grew when Buck Rogers appeared,in 1928,and I think I went a trifle