How old are Safehold fans?

KNick wrote:Well, we didn't make quite 5% of the total number of people registered, but it has been a couple of days since anyone voted. Safehold seems to appeal to a younger crowd on average.

I'm flattered that you all took the time for this, but I suspect one reason for the skew "younger" towards Safehold is that the Honorverse has been along for so much longer. If you started reading those books with OBS in 1993 when you were 30, well . . . .

This is a good point, I was in college when Off Armageddon Reef came out; I was in kindergarten when On Basilisk Station came out.

runsforcelery wrote:

KNick wrote:Well, we didn't make quite 5% of the total number of people registered, but it has been a couple of days since anyone voted. Safehold seems to appeal to a younger crowd on average.

I'm flattered that you all took the time for this, but I suspect one reason for the skew "younger" towards Safehold is that the Honorverse has been along for so much longer. If you started reading those books with OBS in 1993 when you were 30, well . . . .

Donnachaidh wrote:This is a good point, I was in college when Off Armageddon Reef came out; I was in kindergarten when On Basilisk Station came out.

runsforcelery wrote:
I'm flattered that you all took the time for this, but I suspect one reason for the skew "younger" towards Safehold is that the Honorverse has been along for so much longer. If you started reading those books with OBS in 1993 when you were 30, well . . . .

You're not making me feel any younger here, you know . . . .

runsforcelery wrote:
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You're not making me feel any younger here, you know . . . .

Hi RFC

Your bio says you were at onetime planning on being professor, I had thought I might like to be too, and lucked out to teach a college level course. Had you done so you would have noticed the students stay the same age while you get older. Remember the old musical with Peter O'Toole Goodbye Mr. Chips where it is noted the teachers get older but the students are eternally youthful? With children your difference in age remains the same forever however, with students it gets larger yearly, and thus more depressingly. Perhaps God did you a favor by changing your life's carrier path

Poker

Hi RFC

Take heart Sir !!!

"Wisdom comes with age" - - -

Mind you, sometimes age comes alone

{In my case, the jury's still out }

R
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pokermind wrote:Hi RFC

Your bio says you were at onetime planning on being professor, I had thought I might like to be too, and lucked out to teach a college level course. Had you done so you would have noticed the students stay the same age while you get older. Remember the old musical with Peter O'Toole Goodbye Mr. Chips where it is noted the teachers get older but the students are eternally youthful? With children your difference in age remains the same forever however, with students it gets larger yearly, and thus more depressingly. Perhaps God did you a favor by changing your life's carrier path

Poker

Nope. I gotta disagree. I've been working at universities longer than current grad students have been alive. Every year I swear that students keep getting younger all the time. How are their parents even letting them out of the house?

runsforcelery wrote:I'm flattered that you all took the time for this, but I suspect one reason for the skew "younger" towards Safehold is that the Honorverse has been along for so much longer. If you started reading those books with OBS in 1993 when you were 30, well . . . .

Perhaps. However, if the name on the cover had been other than David Weber, I would have passed on by. If I had not known the quality of the writer, it would not have appealed to me.

I had hoped that it would turn out that younger readers were also reading the Honorverse books, too.

pokermind wrote:

runsforcelery wrote:
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You're not making me feel any younger here, you know . . . .

Hi RFC

Your bio says you were at onetime planning on being professor, I had thought I might like to be too, and lucked out to teach a college level course. Had you done so you would have noticed the students stay the same age while you get older. Remember the old musical with Peter O'Toole Goodbye Mr. Chips where it is noted the teachers get older but the students are eternally youthful? With children your difference in age remains the same forever however, with students it gets larger yearly, and thus more depressingly. Perhaps God did you a favor by changing your life's carrier path

Poker

I did teach for two years while I was in graduate school, Poker, and you're absolutely right.

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runsforcelery wrote:

Donnachaidh wrote:This is a good point, I was in college when Off Armageddon Reef came out; I was in kindergarten when On Basilisk Station came out.

You're not making me feel any younger here, you know . . . .

SWM wrote:Nope. I gotta disagree. I've been working at universities longer than current grad students have been alive. Every year I swear that students keep getting younger all the time. How are their parents even letting them out of the house?

Rats, I'd hoped this thread would give me a chance to lie creatively about my age! And yeah, when I see the college kids walking past my window I wonder when universities started admitting kids who should be in Jr. High!

To paraphrase Mark Twain - "When I was 15 I thought my parents were the dumbest people on Earth. When I was 21 I was amazed how much they'd learned!"