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Strange. I have been fan of ... Aehm ... SciFi for as long as I could read (the first ever book I remember reading entirely by myself *and* liking was a SciFi book for boys) and I never ever realized that some people might consider it degrading, insulting or improper.
I have read lots of the ... Aehm ... stuff, from Hard SF (is that correct?), even hard military "Baen-style", through milder stuff to space opera. From Verne, Wells, Heinlein, Asimov to the contemporary authors, including obscure (and wonderful) books by Russian and eastern European authors written in 1960s.
The reason for my ignorance might be that I just loved to read those books. There was no possibility to organize with other fans here until the "recent" (shows how old I am) advent of the Internet and discussion forums.
By the way ... the book I read as a boy.
I have been searching for it for quite a few years and I do not remember author or a name.
A group of boys find a crashlanded, preserved spaceship here on earth and start to use its ... facilities. One of strange effects the ship has is that whatever they read on board of the ship or near the ship, while it is still parked somewhere on Earth (in a cave?) they can recall perfectly, so they use it as a learning aid. Later on they continue to have great adventures on wonderful alien planets.
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