Your earliest sci-fi memory...

Justin Swanton said:
My first SF movie I recall was The Green Slime. I had nightmares for a week afterwards.
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LOL

How old were you? My sister said that was a good flick so I watched it. I thought it was terrible. But I saw the original Blob as a kid and it scaired the sh!t out of me.
 
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psikeyhackr said:
LOL

How old were you? My sister said that was a good flick so I watched it. I thought it was terrible. But I saw the original Blob as a kid and it scaired the sh!t out of me.
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Ten or less. I saw it in Rhodesia in the 1970's.
 
Dave said:
The rain story could have been by Ray Bradbury. He wrote many rain stories. I know I've read "All Summer In a Day" but that is opposite to what you said as the children are preparing for sunshine after seven years of rain.

My earliest memory is from TV. At age one or two I would watch 'Dr Who' at my grandfathers on a Saturday afternoon while the tea was made. I used to bounce on the sofa to the music. All I can remember is the music, that it came on after the football results, and the Daleks, of course.
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Doctor Who got me into a lifelong love of both Science Fiction and electronic music. The first Dr Who serial I saw was the one with the Yeti in the London Underground.
 
Edit: Second thought, I think I'll keep this to myself.

K2
 
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I'm not entirely sure but I think my first SF experience was a radio play, about a mission to Mars which, of course, went horribly wrong.
This probably was in my early teens, 1964 thereabouts. Perhaps even earlier, come to think about it.
 
E.T. I think I was around six. The first movie I have seen on the big screen. My mother took my sister, my cousin and me to the theatre. Oh, what fun. My mother believes that that movie has affected us the most. (Like general attitude to authority, to adults, taking sides, interest in science fiction... This was a long-standing discussion between us. But my sister and I believe it is the 2001 A Space Odyssey. Because she made us watch it and we both remember that day very vividly, exactly the same; her telling us we should 'sit and watch this, because it is important'. She doesn't remember. LOL She never did that before -or after- for a movie so it was marked and the movie well, naturally unforgettable. It is a precious, lovely 'trauma'. It changed us forever. I was 11, sis was 9. Sunday. Noon. Stunned two kids, eyes wide, pinned to the couch, thinking 'Aaaaaa what's happening?!' Thanks for reminding me that. :giggle: )
 
  1. The Angry Red Planet 1959
  2. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
  3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  4. Destination Moon (1950)
  5. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  6. The Thing from Another World (1951)
  7. Them! (1954)
  8. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  9. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
  10. The Fly (1958)
  11. The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953)
  12. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Fred F. Sears)
  13. The Blob (Irvin Yeaworth)
  14. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954)
  15. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
Back in 59 when I was 8 we went to the drive in theatre to see the Angry Red Planet.
Then Journey to the Center of the Earth.

After that we had this late night movie show on the black and white tv that showed the above films from 3 down and more.
However Somewhere Before this I began reading.
Eleanor Frances (Butler) Cameron Mushroom planet series.

Somewhere in the early mid 60s I moved quickly on to

Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Colors of Space
Poul Andersonj's After Doomsday.
My reading just started rolling after that.
 
In the cinema, I was taken to see 2001: A Space Odessey
It was not the original 68/69 release but a re-run at a local fleapit. Even so, it was the early 70s and I was only 4 or 5. I can remember loving it, especially the trippy bit at the end. Don't think I understood a word of it now or then.
About the same time in the early 70s Thunderbirds was on Sunday morning repeat and I fell in love with them. And I still do.
 
I remember reading Flowers for Algernon best. My memory of reading a Goosebumps book about a comic book supervillain is hazier.
In film, it was Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
 
Guttersnipe said:
I remember reading Flowers for Algernon best. My memory of reading a Goosebumps book about a comic book supervillain is hazier.
In film, it was Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
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I read the short story version of Flowers for Algernon when I was in the single-digits of age...I can't remember when I discovered that there was a whole, entire expanded novelization of it, though I remember loving it nearly as much as the short version!
 
OMG! I was 4 years old sitting in my dads lap and watching Star Trek, the original series. I was amazed years later when I saw them again and remembered a few. Freaky.
 
CupofJoe said:
In the cinema, I was taken to see 2001: A Space Odessey
It was not the original 68/69 release but a re-run at a local fleapit. Even so, it was the early 70s and I was only 4 or 5. I can remember loving it, especially the trippy bit at the end. Don't think I understood a word of it now or then.
About the same time in the early 70s Thunderbirds was on Sunday morning repeat and I fell in love with them. And I still do.
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My absolute earliest favorite Saturday morning cartoon was Battle of the Planets. I was totally obsessed with repeating Zoltar's dialogue while standing in front of my grandma's fan and I remember being amazed at how much that made me sound like him! (and now, knowing what I know about the production budgets of those shows, I'd be totally unsurprised to discover that that's how the voice actor sounded like Zoltar too :D )
 
Battle of the Planets was awesome. I used to enjoy Star Fleet too. Space 1999 was must see viewing grousing up.

my mum got me 2000AD when it came out and I prefer this to DC and Marvel.
 
Vince W said:
I preferred Star Blazers to Battle of the Planets.
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Star Blazers produced in 1974, had better writing then almost all of the live action science fiction shows of that era It had a continuous story arc which was largely unheard of in Prime time tv series.

Battle of the Planets , The local station that broadcasted called it The " Most exciting show since Star Wars" . Forgetting that Star Wars was Neve a show. What ruins this series for me was the way it was edited combined with the crapy voice acting and and the 7Zark7 to fill in the scene cut out .
 
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