Your earliest sci-fi memory...

My mum read diggers, truckers and wings to my sister and me when we were younger.

I also remember that my childminder had star wars on video and used to watch it every so often.

Gothic
 
I know I read some SciFi before, but the thing I remember is Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galixy". I remember picking up a copy of Astounding SF, and subscribing to it to finish the rest of the story. It was serialized in four parts. I even bought a copy of it lately, and it is still a good story. His analizing of cultures in the book hold up well even today.
 
Remembering what my earliest SF-memory is isn't that easy, since both my parents and all of my brothers are also SF-fans. But I guess it would be a youthseries about a Dutch (Friesian, one of our provinces) inventor who made all kinds of futuristic inventions, among which a Discus shaped craft in which he all kinds of adventures with his sons.
I think that my earliest memory of a internationally known author would be Herbert's Dune, which I read when I was about ten or eleven. A book like that certainly made an impression on me at that age. I did read the translation, though... :)
 
I belive it was a book by Connie Möller, Kriget om källan (The War of the Well). The plot was that a village is suddently poisoned and need to get water from a mountain spring, but the mountain villagers will not allow it. The valley village was built on a storage place for nucular waste which is now leaking, but since such technology is longe since forgotten there is not much they can do about it.:(
It is implied that only us, now, can do something to prevent it from ever happening.
 
Mine's the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Night Gallery, and Science Fiction Theater that showcased all the SF/horror movies, good, bad, and indifferent. Then I read several Ray Bradbury stories, and others like Clifford D. Simak, L.P. Davies. That's about it, so far.
 
It was definitely The Blob. The came Rodan and Godzilla--but I guess those are action/adventure/horror.

Tri
 
My earliest SF memory is the book, Donovan's Brain which my father irritatingly tossed to me at age 13. I had been pestering him abou, "There's nothing to Do!" , "I'm bored!", etc. That book launched a lifetime of appreciation for SF and also Fantasy... little did he know what he was starting, lol!
 
Phlip said:
My earliest SF memory is the book, Donovan's Brain which my father irritatingly tossed to me at age 13. I had been pestering him abou, "There's nothing to Do!" , "I'm bored!", etc. That book launched a lifetime of appreciation for SF and also Fantasy... little did he know what he was starting, lol!
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Ah, yes.... Curk Siodmak -- now, there's a name you don't often hear these days (more's the pity).....
 
Was Starwars!

Grandad took 3 of my male cousins (all about 11-13ish) to see it when it originally came out, they snuck me in too, don't know how I was only 6!

But I still remember sitting entranced as those white words scrolled by and grandad read them to me, then princesss leia :) and Darth Vader!:eek:

and then of course I fell hoplessly in love with Luke Skywalker ahhhhh . . .

Took my god-daughter to see it at the cinema when it came out again a few years ago, she fell in love with luke (bless, he was so young!)and I watched Harison Ford yum.

When I'm old it'll be OB1! hehe

Can't watch those scrolling intros without a shiver to this day . . . an have never looked back!:)
 
TK-421 said:
Star Wars as well. Completely blown away...
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why arn't you at you post . . . (sorry must be old but i couldn't resist!:):eek:)

P.S R u on another forum, not SF or book related, under the same name?
 
This was a great idea, really forced me to plunder my memory. I remember Dr Who being Tom Baker with the scarf. I read 2000AD, so getting towards the sci fi side. But I've got it down to two as the earliest. Either the TV series of Logans' Run, especially this episode where you got to have a sense of fun and humour till a certain age and then they put you in a machine which stripped it away from you forever and this one female character deliberately chose to strip out her entire mind instead of living without which left her dead. Probably shouldn't have watched at a young age, too formative;).
The other one was old black and white Flash Gordon serials. Ming the merciless and the guys with the giant wings and especially the costumes the girls wore. And of course a flying car or monkies aren't reasonable either so I'll throw in Chitty chitty bang bang and the Wizard of Oz.
 
My older brother and father loved Dune from as far back as I can remember. We watched the films, I grew playing Dune 2 on my DOS PC, and before I knew many things in life I knew that the Spice must Flow. It was a few years before I read Dune, but I loved it from the first chapter and I've never looked back.
 
My earliest memory is being allowed to stay up past my bedtime one night, to watch an episode of the original Star Trek during its second season. I've been hooked on SF ever since.
 
I was about 7 years old and watching The Empire Strikes Back with my brother and cousin on television. I was terrified of the dinosaur-looking robot things at the start of the movie... they gave me nightmares! A few months later I watched Return of the Jedi and really enjoyed it.
 
Being wide eyed & excessivley excited that there were 2 more Star Wars films.. and I was going to be getting BOTH on video... after almost wearing out the video of the original film by watching it so often! :D
 
My earliest of SF memories were of the times that I used to sit and watch Star Trek with a few friends. I was never a huge fan of the actors, but I thought that the stories were excellent and even wrote nerdy little stories that put myself in their situations.

And then I started watching a show called "Alien Nation"...I think it only lasted about a year, but I thought it was absolutely superb. I also enjoyed "Quantum Leap" and still remember almost all of the episodes I saw. And then I decided to give Star Wars a try and just absolutely fell in love with those movies and the books as well.

But Alien Nation is my fondest memory of the entire genre. It just completely rocked my socks.
 
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