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As a teen, eh? Ages 13-19, I presume. Hm. That was some time ago.
I was a comic book fan at age 13, for the most part. You know - Batman, Green Lantern, Iron Man, Justice League, Archie (how’d that get in there?) etc.
Everything fictional written by Issac Asimov. I mean everything up to that time.
Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula K Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Frederik Pohl, Frank Herbert, Stanislaw Lem, Poul Anderson, Piers Anthony, Arthur C Clark and a few others I can’t think of at the moment. The titles are too many to mention.
I suppose I was a fairly hardcore science fiction fan in my teens (and you now have enough information to take a stab at guessing my age.)
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Your picks are very similar to mine Greg. Asimov, Silverberg, Heinlein, Vonnegut, Poul Anderson, Piers Anthony, Arthur C. Clark(Dune was Herbert?, that too). I was also quite a bit into Fantasy as well, with all the popular names there. David Eddings, Lackey, Jordan, etc. Then there are mainstream authors I've read a lot of, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Koontz, Orson Scott Card. The only author of that last group which I haven't read every book of is King, oddly enough.
Most influential books during my teens were probably the Chronicles of Narnia. They hadn't instilled me with any wisdom, they instead sparked my enthusiasm for reading.
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If you'll pardon my slight digression ...
It’s interesting to note, Interbane, the direction you took with your reading after science fiction. I, too, began reading fantasy after my teens. I found that I enjoyed mystery as well. I think it was Asimov who said, later in life, that most good stories contain elements of mystery. He took a turn into mystery for a bit with his Black Widowers series.
Stephen King, Michael Crichton and Dean Koontz are more or less my generation (except for Crichton, who published in my teens under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffery Hudson,) and so were not published at the time I was in my teens. I discovered Stephen King while in my 20’s. That old boy is one prolific typist, and a lot of what he types I like. Some I don’t. I love the Dark Tower series. Everything’s Eventual and Nightmares and Dreamscapes remain on my bookshelf, too. I came to reading Koontz a tad late in life. Oddly enough through his Odd Thomas novel. You might have guessed that from my avatar. The name is mostly coincidental. I’ve read many of his other novels since then. Reading Crichton was quite an experience for me first time around.
I’ve read portions of the Chronicles of Narnia to my children, and later on read many of the books in the series. Sadly, and I’ve been reminded of this more than once, I’ve never read Orson Scott Card. I sometimes even remind myself that I should.
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