Your earliest sci-fi memory...

Graymalkin said:
Carry On team never really got into the sci-fi genre anyway
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You missed this film then
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I saw the original movie The Blob in 1958 at The Louis theater. Scared the crap out of me. Of course I knew nothing about it being SF at the time. It was a Monster Movie!

First conscious encounter with SF was reading Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse.
 
i think my first introduction to SF was probably back in the very early 70s, watching a classic H.G. Wells film "The Time Machine" with Rod Taylor. I was probably a preteen back then, and had very little concept of what sci-fi actually was. But I enjoyed the sfx of tripping through Time, along with the rather creepy "Morlocks".

I think shortly after that I went onto watch the original "The War of the Worlds". I was still too young to understand the nuances, but those weird spacecraft from Mars blowing away cities of Earth, really scared the hell out of me for a week or so afterwards.
 
Unfortunately, I don't remember the name neither the author of my first SF book, but it amused me a lot when I was a kid. I could read it again and again until all pages were stored safely in my head. There is no doubt that's a children's book, however I'm not sure if that belongs to Soviet times or later. I read it somewhere between 2000—2008, most probably 2004. It told a story about a young boy that recently went to school. He met another kid (my blurry memory won't confirm whether that was a girl or also a boy) which happened to be a guest from the future. They then travel one century further and the second kid shows the future school. She/He encourages the guest from the past to learn more and be a responsible student, from which I'd suppose that the main character had issues in school what was the idea of the whole story. My brightest memory about the future school is robots as teachers. They had nothing in common with humans except their height and looked like clumsy machines with a big bulb encircled by a transparent half-sphere instead of head. It popped out in my mind like a providence when I started reading Asimov several years later. I'm still in process searching for it's name and the writer. It's nothing special, just a regular children's book that almost nobody knows about but it was my start.
 
Update: The book is called Petya Ivanov and wizard Tick Tock (2000). In my previous post I put many details incorrectly, however since the main ideas I mentioned in every sentence are the same, it's unnecessary to try retelling the particularities more accurately. I only have to add that it isn't about travelling to the future school only, because before the main character went there, he had been to other timelines including the Neolithic and Russian Empire.
 
My earliest Sci-fi memory? Tall grey humanoids leaving me in a cot at a doorway with the words: "We haffff made you humannnn....go rule planet for usssss."

I think I might have come a little short in my mission objectives....:unsure:
 
Justin Swanton said:
My earliest Sci-fi memory? Tall grey humanoids leaving me in a cot at a doorway with the words: "We haffff made you humannnn....go rule planet for usssss."

I think I might have come a little short in my mission objectives....:unsure:
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:D well funny ( I assume ...)
 
For me, it was when I was about 7 or 8. I always liked science, and I liked fiction, but I didn't realize how well they could go together until I was assigned 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in school. I read the entire, unabridged work in 2 days.
 
Not my first sci-fi memory but the first time I went to a sci-fi movie by myself. It was a double planet feature. Fantastic Planet with the second feature of Forbidden Planet. Forbidden Planet was an older film but I hadn't seen it yet. It was a great afternoon.
 
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