Your earliest sci-fi memory...

Besides comics, my first Sci-Fi experience was reading Forbidden Planet. After that I never went back to comics!
 
A scary tv show when I was small that had huge alien creatures that turned into piles of salt or something, can not recall the name, but I'm sure they were called the Wilbeforces and I lived next to Wilbeforce Street!:eek:
Book wise, the first sci fi book I read was The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison. I still have a copy somewhere:)
 
Loner, have you read West of Eden? I keep trying to find the rest of the books, Deathworld noted, will give it a go- I still think Jimmy diGriz is wicked.;)
 
Bladerunner but i cant remember much of it i think i was too young when i saw it, actually the movie is as old as i am.

After i have read the novel its based on i am gonna see the movie and see if its as i remember it.
 
Mine would definitly be Star Wars. I'm rather young only 15 soon to be 16, but when I was 6 they were releasing A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi in theatres(special edition versions) and wow, I saw those so many times, and then we got them on vhs <_<. I never read Sci-Fi a superlot until a few years ago, and when I started reading sci-fi I started reading fantasy(some in 5th grade but it took another year or two before I got really into it), I read the Hobbit, and then Lord of the Rings and, well, last year I finished reading it for the fourth time.
 
There are a couple of very early memories for me that could have been the beginning of my travels in SF. My dad subscribed to a men's magazine called "True" that had various outdoors types of stories, fishing tips and so on. But they had stories too. One story was about a farmer that went out to the barn one dark, snowy Winter night to check on his livestock. He was gone longer than he should have been so his wife went out to see what was going on. She followed his foot tracks in the snow and they passed the door to the barn, went around the corner of the structure and disappeared. Standing there, she could hear her husbands voice calling for help from seemingly high above her. The story could have been authored by Frank Edwards, a reporter that specialized in wierd stories. I read most of his books that were something like a "Stranger Than Science" series. He reported on stuff like spontaneous combustion cases, psychics and other unexplained phenomena. I don't know if this stuff is fact or fiction. Some of it has the ring of truth while the rest is definately fiction. But it got my interest.

One afternoon when I was in the first grade my Mom called me in to see a new TV show. It was called "Superman" starring George Reeves. Following that was "Captain Video" and later they began running Buster Crabbe in the old "Flash Gordon" films on Saturday mornings. All of this was my introduction to SciFi.

The first book I remember reading was Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100". But at that time I remember bringing home a paperback I had bought at the local drug store that was a collection of SF short stories. It was one of the "Year's Best SF&F" collections. I remember my Dad seeing it and asking, rather gruffly as I remember, why I was reading "that" book. I guess he didn't exactly know what "SF&F" stood for. I have wondered myself what he thought?

Anyhow, somewhere between Superman, Flash Gordon and SF&F, I got hooked. I expect the first SF book I read is the one that I posted in the forum where I asked for help trying to recall the title. The story was about a boy finding what I remember he thought of as a "magic marble" that he and his sister kept secret. He learned to manipulate the marble using just his mind and if I remember correctly, eventually he gave the marble back to it's alien owner. It's similar to "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" but different I think.

Whatever and however it started, I've been a fan all of my life.:)
 
Wow! I am as old as dirt.

I was a big fan of jungle stuff as a kid, Jungle Book, White Pongo, etc. Then I read Heinlein's Farmer In The Sky and I was hooked for life.

Also, the old EC Comics scifi editions helped.
 
Now that Visitors have been mentioned, I remember watching V at an early age. The effects look bad now but at the time this series scared the hell out of me. Lizards, gerbil swallowing, ruddy big flying saucers. And of course the great Michael Ironside.
 
Well I loved Heinlein as a child - Have Spacesuit, Will Travel and Citizen of the Galaxy being two favourites.
The effects on V might have dated badly but some of the topics they covered are still relevant today. 'Aliens' will always be a substitute for the 'other' that society shuns! ;)
 
The source of my avatar :)

Benji Zax and the Alien Prince - cheesiest kids show ever, not that I thought so at the time :) I've just got hold of the series. The floating robots were cool, and the bad guys black van, was, dare I say, cooler then the A-Teams.
 
I saw star wars and a couple of other movies, but I was hooked first on my dad's collection of SF literature - in particular there was this immortal space cowboy called Perry Rhodan. And there was also Buck Rogers on TV.
 
when i was maybe 10 or 11 my dad put ringworld in my hands and said "read this, i know you will like it" and i did thats the earlist sci-fi memory that i have
 
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