Can You Remember Your First Science Fiction Novel?

Boy, do I remember it. It was 1978 and it was Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet. Followed it up with Foster's Ice Rigger. I was bloody well hooked for life.

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card in sixth grade and like reading fanatic i have read it over many many times
 
Uh.. First sf book was by Zelezny.. and .. i hated it so much. Was in the amber series.
 
Well my first introduction to sci-fi came through my Dads playing of Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds whilst on holiday in Wales.

But the first sci-fi I can remember reading was Dune when I was 13.
 
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Well my first introduction to sci-fi came through my Dads playing of Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds whilst on holiday in Wales.

I love that album,my brother used to play it when I was younger.
 
Well, I remember going thru my Mother's book box and getting Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. I loved this so much that I finished all 3 books in 2 days and from then on I was hooked. I have read them all (Frank Herbert then later on his son Brian and friend Kevin Anderson), more than once and I can't wait until the next one.
 
My mom read me C.S. Lewis's sci-fi trilogy when I was young. I was old enough to read on my own then, but we read it together. This was my first exposure to the genre.
 
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D. I'm intrigued by that Lewis trilogy,what are the titles?
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The Space Trilogy:

Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

I am a big fan of Lewis, both his fiction and religious texts.


My mother also read me the Tripod trilogy, and this may have actually been first. I can't quite remember now.
 
Sovereign, by R.M. Meluch from 1979.

A very rare find, these days, that still holds to the classic SF motif that you can write an epic space opera, explore a sophisticated universe in under 200 pages.
 
Well I think the first was lord of the rings when i was about 9 or 10 (i nicked it from my brother who's 3 years older than me), But after that if he got a book from school or library i borrowed it and read it after! No wonder my reading age in primary was so high!
Stainless steel rat Jim DiGriz was my favorite at the time but now i have diverged to the more fantasy side of SF&F.
 
I am trying to dredge my memory - I was about 7 when I discovered Science Fiction. I have it down to three candidates. Oceans Of Venus - Issac Asimov. Journey To Jupiter - Hugh Walters and Citizen Of The Galaxy - Rob Heinlein
 
Foundation - closely followed by the other two, interspersed with assorted Asimov short story collections.

My brother's fault. We had family staying and I was on the camp bed next to his book shelves.
 
Kings of Space, Capt WE Johns.
That would be about 1959 and I'd read all the Biggles and Steely books I could find
 
John Wyndham's The Chrysalids. I'd read a fair bit of fantasy before, notably Andre Norton, but this was my first SF novel (after having heard a radio adaptation)... 1971 or 1972, I think (when I was the tender age of 11 or 12 :eek:)
 
The Martian Way by Isaac Asimov. must have been 10.then read all of his books i could get my hands on...;)
 
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