Can You Remember Your First Science Fiction Novel?

I read several short stories, but my first sci-fi novel was Ringworld. Didn't read another 'til I discovered Asimov. :)
 
II read a number science fiction novels after Dandelion Wine and Destination Universe anthology , at that time I was at best, an indifferent reader. My reading didn't kick into overdrive until I found Robert E Howard Conan Stories and an anthology Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison . :)
 
BAYLOR said:
II read a number science fiction novels after Dandelion Wine and Destination Universe anthology , at that time I was at best, an indifferent reader. My reading didn't kick into overdrive until I found Robert E Howard Conan Stories and an anthology Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison . :)
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I was reading everything Poe wrote. And trying to write in his style (won a prize for that). Then I found A. Christie. Niven turned me off Sci-Fi for a long while, but I love it now! :)

Actually I hated the Conan series... but maybe cause I'd just read Slavelords (?) of Gor, and I was a young teenager, and Conan didn't have all that much sex in it...
 
Cathbad said:
I was reading everything Poe wrote. And trying to write in his style (won a prize for that). Then I found A. Christie. Niven turned me off Sci-Fi for a long while, but I love it now! :)

Actually I hated the Conan series... but maybe cause I'd just read Slavelords (?) of Gor, and I was a young teenager, and Conan didn't have all that much sex in it...
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Robert E Howard was a very good writer who knew how to spin a great story . John Norman is not even in the same league as Howard. I read one Gor book and that killled any desire to read anything else by Norman. I think they did a live action Gor film back in the 70's.
 
I can remember the book well, @BAYLOR. Its only redeeming quality was the titillation a young teen boy got out of it. :)

I started reading the Conan novels after the firs Schwarzenneger movie. Definitely better.
 
Cathbad said:
I can remember the book well, @BAYLOR. Its only redeeming quality was the titillation a young teen boy got out of it. :)

I started reading the Conan novels after the firs Schwarzenneger movie. Definitely better.
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Did you read Howard 's Conan stories ? or one of the Pastiches written by Jordan or done of the other writers.
 
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They were Howard's. Never read one of them thar forgeries.
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Howard only wrote one actual Conan novel. Conan Hour of the Dragon which is considered on the best fantasy novel ever written. The rest were short stories .
 
Yes, now I remember. It was a short story collection.

I also think I did read a novel by someone else... Conan was made a Pirate Ship Captain as he made his way to (somewhere?).
 
Cathbad said:
Yes, now I remember. It was a short story collection.

I also think I did read a novel by someone else... Conan was made a Pirate Ship Captain as he made his way to (somewhere?).
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There is a Howard short story Queen of the Black Coast where meets and falls in love and travels with a Pirate Queen Belit rules at her side. Wonderful and sad story I loved Belit she was so cool, came to very bad end . I wish Howard had let her live to be other stories. Poul Anderson's novel Conan The Rebel which is actually a very good pastiche was prequel to Queen of the Black Coast.
 
REF: Baylor.
I didn't even read a full John Norman novel.
I got half-way and binned it for the misogynistic tripe it was and never touched another!
Robert E Howard on the other hand is an excellent writer.
Not just for Conan but for Solomon Kane and his various other series characters and stand alone stories.
 
To the best of my knowledge -- and I'm not sure I read all, or even much, of it -- I think it may have been Adrift in the Stratosphere, by A. M. Low, which I found at school on a bookshelf (there was no library).

I see that it's available as an ebook on Kobo and on the Kindle (from Amazon Australia), though I'm not recommending anyone to read it.
 
BAYLOR said:
Robert E Howard was a very good writer who knew how to spin a great story . John Norman is not even in the same league as Howard. I read one Gor book and that killled any desire to read anything else by Norman. I think they did a live action Gor film back in the 70's.
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The first two were basically standard not very good John Carter/Conan rip-offs. It was only after them that the S&S turned into S&M.

Bizarrely, the same thing happened in the sequel to the fantasy novel "Shardik"; "Maia" had some interesting premises but was shot through with hard-core bondage porn. Yea, it was from Richard Adams, the bunny guy.
 
Something to do with Brian Gemmell..,,to do with Alexander the Great...
Most memorable one Tad Williams The Dragonbone Chair


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Starship Troopers. Only now, years later do I really get what Heinlen was trying to say, and boy is it relevant today.
 
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