The First Classic Science fiction novel you ever read.

[BAYLOR]

Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

A terrific book.

 

[Biskit]

Wow. No idea, but then it was four or more decades ago.

I was a frequent flyer at the local library, and there came a magic age (can't remember what it was) when I was suddenly allowed out of the children's corner and into to the main library, where I discovered anthologies of Asimov, Ellison, and others which I consumed like my life depended on it. (Later, the school library introduced me to many, many more, and this whole pocket-money thing linked up with bookshops...)

So, it was probably Asimov. Or maybe Ellison. But hey, I was only about ten.

(That library closed and relocated to the local shopping centre a long time back and the building was up for sale around the last time I was in Bristol, seven years ago.)

 

[alexvss]

I'm an anomaly: I read my first science-fiction novel when I was 24. And, to my doom, it was Neuromancer. I'm still recovering from its psychological damage.

 

[Don]

Wow. No idea, but then it was four or more decades ago.

I was a frequent flyer at the local library, and there came a magic age (can't remember what it was) when I was suddenly allowed out of the children's corner and into to the main library, where I discovered anthologies of Asimov, Ellison, and others which I consumed like my life depended on it. (Later, the school library introduced me to many, many more, and this whole pocket-money thing linked up with bookshops...)

So, it was probably Asimov. Or maybe Ellison. But hey, I was only about ten.

You said it! In my case, Foundation, Dune, A Clockwork Orange, and Slaughterhouse-5 all seem equally plausible, as does the other Asimovs or Vonneguts.

 

[Ellizze]

A terrific book.

Truee

 

[Guanazee]

I vividly remember browsing through the little library at my middle school wondering if there was ever anything new to read when I came upon not something new but something different, to me. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov opened up a whole world of literature and thoughtful imagination.