I gladly admit to reading and enjoying a lot of science fiction as well but as I grew older that waned.
I enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school and my duties were so all-consuming and technical that even science fiction became boring. I turned more and more to all sorts of history for my enjoyment.
As an aside, by the time I was in Junior High School I was reading about the Soviet Union and Russia prior to Communism. As I watched the evening news and read the newspapers I started making then connection between the Communists and the Democrats. This was back in the early 70's yet I saw how their propaganda was nearly identical. I became a conservative at a very young age because of my reading many books on history.
The Stain of Resistance