The First Classic Science fiction novel you ever read.

[Joshua Jones]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I'm noticing a pattern here...

 

[BAYLOR]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I'm noticing a pattern here...

I bought a copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and it sat on my shelf 25 year before I got around to reading it. It was a terrific book and to this day, Im wondering why I waited so long to finally read it.

 

[Rodders]

The first one remember reading is Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep by Philip K. Dick. It was after I saw Blade Runner for the first time.

 

[Joshua Jones]

I bought a copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and it sat on my shelf 25 year before I got around to reading it. It was a terrific book and to this day, Im wondering why I waited so long to finally read it.

It had a massive impact on me... I read it unabridged when I was 8. In 2 days. I was always into science (like my 7 year old daughter draws mermaids. I was designing powered body suits, pulse jet engines, and multistage rockets), but it hadn't occurred to me that science could be incorporated into a great story. Ever since, I've had a preference for hard and hardish SF.

 

[BAYLOR]

The first one remember reading is Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep by Philip K. Dick. It was after I saw Blade Runner for the first time.

The book differs markedly from the movie , But I like both equally .

 

[Bick]

It would be A Fall of Moondust, presuming that counts as classic.

 

[Parson]

It would be A Fall of Moondust, presuming that counts as classic.

Certainly does in my book.

 

[farntfar]

Certainly does in my book.

Ah! But is your book a classic, Parson? Because that would make A fall of Moondust a classic squared.

My first SF book was Chocky by John Wyndham, given to me by my father as an introduction to SF for my 8th birthday (I think). It's rather too sophisticated for an 8 year-old really (He had to explain to me what binary was, for example), but it is about a young boy, and has that nice line drawing of one on the cover, which is why he chose it.

Correcting his mistake, he gave me a boxed set of Lucky Starr, Space Ranger by Asimov for Christmas.

Anyway, it all worked, and he had created an SF fan.

 

[BigBadBob141]

Not sure, it's a toss up between, "The Time Machine", "The Invisible Man" or "War Of The Worlds" all by good old H.G.Wells!

 

[Ambrose]

At this stage memory is fuzzy. Certainly Simak's Way Station was early. but our local library also had a good deal of Doc Smith. Anyone remember his series?

 

[Ambrose]

Or Clarke's Childhood's End was early too.

 

[C.C.]

To your memory, what was the first classic science fiction you read?

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

 

[dask]

Think it was either A Journey To The Center Of The Earth or ”The Machine Stops.”

 

[BAYLOR]

Think it was either A Journey To The Center Of The Earth or ”The Machine Stops.”

The Machine Stops That one was adapted for the anthology tv series Out of the Unknown .

 

[Bick]

It was either Starman Jones or Space Cadet by Heinlein. I read one after the other and sometimes I get bits mixed up. I should give them another read to sort it all out.

I get his juve's mixed up too - especially these. In which one of these is the protagonist a stowaway? Is it Jones?

 

[Vince W]

I get his juve's mixed up too - especially these. In which one of these is the protagonist a stowaway? Is it Jones?

I believe so. In Space Cadet I seem to recall a chapter about eating pie. It's something that's stuck with me the last 44 odd years even if I don't quite remember the specific details.

 

[BAYLOR]

I believe so. In Space Cadet I seem to recall a chapter about eating pie. It's something that's stuck with me the last 44 odd years even if I don't quite remember the specific details.

I have that book in my collection somewhere. There was tv adaptation of it in the 1950's .

 

[Vince W]

I have that book in my collection somewhere. There was tv adaptation of it in the 1950's .

There was? I'd definitely give it a look.

 

[BAYLOR]

There was? I'd definitely give it a look.

The Series was on tv from 1950 to 1955 .

 

[JimC]

The TV Series was 'Tom Corbett, Space Cadet'. Tom was modeled after the Matt character in 'Space Cadet', and several other characters were adapted and renamed as well.