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That's just... strange.

The correct approach would have been to either leave a student reading a lot alone, or to steer him toward other genres that are similar to Sci-Fi ("Hey gbrown, this other author has a similar style to X I see you enjoy, but it's not true sci-fi... you'll see").

[gbrown]

It was long enough ago that I honestly don’t recall whether or not the teacher tried that. I may have just been stubborn lol.