Your earliest sci-fi memory...

Battlestar galactica - I remember the film coming out in the cinema and thinking it was brilliant. It was around 1978.
 
Nesacat said:
It's more fantasy than sci-fi really. It's Ray Bradbury's Fog Horn. I read it when very little in the Reader's Digest. The story stuck in my head although I'd forgotten both the title and the name of the author. I'd tried to find it off and on over the years with no success until just a couple of years ago. I was in Pay Less Books and picked up a book with an illustration of a lighthouse and this beast. It was the right tale. It was the most amazing feeling.

Loner is right. Sometimes a tale just creeps under your skin and stays there even if you first read it years and years ago.
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Some time in the fifties, Ray Harryhausen did the special effects for a movie based on the Fog Horn ( Which I think I referred to as the Lighthouse mistakenly in another thread. And you were there and Toto and.....) called The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. If you've never seen it and appreceated the original King Kong, It's well worth the effort.
 
Parson said:
My earliest Sci-fi memory would be a book by Andre Norton, which I do not even remember the title of. It was a story a young herder from the planet Norden, who was a herder. He had been transplanted into another star system where immigrants were only allowed to the main planet (?) if they had a job. He got a job at a pet store but soon pets who had been inhanced to the point that they were no longer pets are sent there. He finds he can speak with them telepathically. And so on. If anyone recognized this and can tell me the name of the book I would appreciate it a lot.
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Wait, was he a herder? :p Could be Andre Norton's Beastmaster...it has a character called Storm who becomes a rancher on frontier planet and has telepathic rapport with a team of animals.

Could be the one. Maybe. She wrote so many books and I definitely haven't read them all.

*after Googling Andre Norton and planet Norden I think it's Catseye you read!*
 
I guess the earliest one I can identify (there might have random books or stories before) is watching Star Trek--yes, the original season of the original show, 40 years ago now--on my little black and white tv in my room. Captain Kirk was my first crush!
 
steve12553 said:
Some time in the fifties, Ray Harryhausen did the special effects for a movie based on the Fog Horn ( Which I think I referred to as the Lighthouse mistakenly in another thread. And you were there and Toto and.....) called The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. If you've never seen it and appreceated the original King Kong, It's well worth the effort.
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I have seen the original King Kong and for some reason like it the best of all although I will admit Jackson did a visually stunning job. It just didn't 'feel' the same as the original somehow. Shall keep as eye out for The Beast. Thank you steve. :)
 
Mine... I don't know if anyone recognizes this, it would have been sort of cool to know what it was...

I think it was a film or a TV series, I hardly remember anything, but there was a spaceship landing on a planet with red sky and some bushy vegetation. And there were some scenes inside the ship, and then it exploded, which felt kinda sad... That's all.
 
Watching Star Wars when I was nothing more than wee lad, four or five years old maybe, and believing that battles like this actually took place in space. The getting into X-men and and comic books and H.G. Wells and Jules Verne when I was elementary school.
 
Thadlerian said:
I don't know if anyone recognizes this... I think it was a film or a TV series, I hardly remember anything, but there was a spaceship landing on a planet with red sky and some bushy vegetation. And there were some scenes inside the ship, and then it exploded, which felt kinda sad... That's all.
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Intriguing... sorry I can't be more help! :(
 
Loner,

Thanks! That was exactly what it was, "Catseye!" It is amazing how certain parts of book read (we don't want to say how many decades ago) can still tickle the imagination, while yesterday's news, or an recent aquaintances name can be utterly beyond reach.

Parson
 
I remember reading a book about a boy who was in some sort of telepathic contact with an alien who needed his help to stop an alien criminal who had made his way to Earth. I wish I could remember the name of the book. I believe I was in grade 6 or so.

I remember being a fan of Astro Boy when I was young.
 
My first memory was William Hartnell as Dr. Who.
Fireball XL-5
Remember playing Lost in Space in the school playground
 
lost in space, land of the giants and the original star treks. I also remember playing with sci fiction lego. I never read sci fiction to much later
 
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