Your earliest sci-fi memory...

My earliest SF was when I was so young I can't actually remember how old! But I was old enough to read, was visiting an aunt and picked up a copy of 2000AD. Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death where Judge Death was doing his thing; ripping hearts out of victims with his bare hands! What is disturbing is that I didn't find it disturbing, but was hooked!

Earlist Fantasy was reading a Tarzan comic strip in primary school!
 
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Pip Pip and his flying saucer, followed closely by the Doctor Doolittle books (must have been 7 or 8 years old at the time). Appleton's Toms Swift (senior) books followed by his son's versions. Norton and Heinlein were also part of the early library.

Enjoy!
 
Some picture books are soo trippy theuy might as well be fantasy - like the Barbapapa books. I mean what were those blobby shape-changing guys? Aliens? :confused:

But if you don't count picture books I have fond memories of Heinlein's books for kids - Have Spacesuit, Will Travel; Citizen of the Galaxy.

They really made me think about the world. And once my mind had grown enough I actually rejected Heinlein's works. But I still have to give him credit for starting the growing process. :rolleyes:
 
I think Thunderbirds would be one of the earliest sci-fi shows I remember, followed by Terrahawks and Star Fleet. I loved those shows when I was young.:)
 
I remember being maybe 6 years old. This was probably in the mid 1950's. I had persuaded my mother to take me to a movie on a shopping trip in our small town.
It wsas a sci fi movie about spacemen returning to earth. They had eggs from another planet that upon reaching earth began hatching into very scary gross beings.

After 1/2 hour I insisted on leaving as it scared the @#$% out of me.

I have been hooked ever since. Still hate the hatching alien eggs!!!!
 
It was the late 1950's(Yes 1950's!). My mother and I had gone shopping and I had been on good behavior for once, so we went to a matinee. It was something about returning astronauts who had crash landed on return from another world. They didn't survive, but they had brought back a cargo of alien eggs which began hatching.........
At this point I got scared and demanded to be taken out of there right away.

I've been hooked ever since.

No idea what the movie was, but Aliens sure has a strong resemblance in premise.
 
Dr Who - The Sea Devils - particularly the bit where they came out of the sea for the first time. It was 1972 so I would have been about 5 years old. I was totally hooked from then on.

The first 'proper' SF book I read was Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos' after seeing the film 'Village of the Damned" on TV when I was about 8 or 9.
 
My earliest t.v. s.f. memory is "My Favorite Martian", from 1963. I was five years old and I was entranced. I *loved* that show so much.
(Uncle Martin...lol!)

The first s.f. book I ever read was from around that time as well and was called "Star Girl". It's about a little girl called "Mo" with big violet eyes (how exotic is that?) who falls out of her father's spaceship and the children of the village have to help her get to the meeting place in time for him to pick her up again. I actually found a library discarded copy of "Star Girl" a few years back, it's so nice to actually have a copy of the story!
 
Ragnar said:
Dr Who - The Sea Devils - particularly the bit where they came out of the sea for the first time. It was 1972 so I would have been about 5 years old. I was totally hooked from then on.

The first 'proper' SF book I read was Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos' after seeing the film 'Village of the Damned" on TV when I was about 8 or 9.
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Glad to have someone else mention that episode. Welcome.
 
Parrot0123 said:
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.
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Could that one have been by Hal Clement(Needle?)
 
I would have to say film-wise, the films of the early 50"s as a child

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Planet
Invaders from Mars
Godzilla

Reading-wise: Tom Swift Jr. books
 
I remember watching the early Dr Who & Supercar on TV

As for reading – I loved TV21 (Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet), not to sure if it had Dr Who, But it did have the Daleks on the back page.

First Sci-Fi Film I went to was "THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO"
 
Mine is reading a book in 5th grade, I can't remember the title or author (the author was female though maybe L'Engle :confused: ). These children lived underground in a massive, tube-like structure because the outside was supposedly contaminated. They got out, and discovered it wasn't.
 
If you leave out all the comics (Marvel, DC, Tarzan etc.) I guess it's probably Dr. Who, Blakes 7 and Star Trek :) Of course, I believe I read some science fiction before that in Sinhalese but that's probably my first run in with science fiction in English ...
 
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