At What Age Did You Start Reading SF? Effects?

paeng said:
Those were great, together with Space: 1999, UFO, and Sapphire and Steele.
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I have Space 1999 on dvd, flawed but very entertain stuff with great production values, evenly today's standards. :cool:
 
How about encouraging the reading of:

Ready Player One by Earnest Cline

for grammar school, and

Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez

For high school students. They are all hearing about Crowdstrike now. I refused to read Catcher in the Rye when I was in high school. I might remember when that was if it weren't for my Alzheimer's.
 
I was trying to remember recently if it was a copy of Robert Heinlein's Have Spacesuit Will Travel, or the John Christopher Tripods/White Mountains trilogy that made me an avid seeker of more SF/F. The Heinlein came via my older brother who was already and avid SF reader alongside our mother, and the other was from the elementary school library. Might as well credit both of them. Anyway, I would've been around age eight or nine I think. I was crazy for Space:1999 (first series) on tv around the same time as well as Kolchak The Night Stalker and reruns of Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. At the movie theater I had gotten to see both Logan's Run and Damnation Alley before seeing Star Wars in 1978 (a bit late). I also had a few Micronauts toys. So I was reading science fiction fairly young. We also always had comic books around, but random issues, and my favorites besides cute animals had been Shazam, Supergirl and something titled Plop! That is until I happened on the Star Wars and Batllestar Galactica comics one month and got hooked on having to find the next issues (more so with the Star Wars series).

I think comic books can be a great start for kids to reading for enjoyment, and then on to the stuff with fewer or even no pictures. Anything imagination feeding really, and fantasy and science fiction is best at that! If something has a tie-in with film or tv media I see nothing negative about that... I had some memorable adventures with Donald Duck (reprints but I didn't know that at the time) and if Sonic The Hedgehog can be that for today's kids I'm all for him! I had future psychicTelzey Amberdon by James H. Schmitz like they have Harry Potter. There are programs to give away comics and perhaps the same can be (or is) done with Scholastic book titles?
 
psikeyhackr said:
I read Legacy by him not as a child though.

gutenberg.org

Legacy by James H. Schmitz

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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That and a number of other things by him are in Project Gutenberg now.
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His stories were in a lot of Astoundings and Analogs, but there was a paperback in the school library of just the first two, maybe three, Telzey Amberdon stories set in the Galactic Web. It made a big impression on me back then, I thought it might make for an excellent comic book, but then again perhaps not as so much that happened was in the mind. The variety of alien intelligences she met were very mind-stretching!

Thanks for the link!
 
Most of my first encounters with science fiction books are lost to a foggy memory but the first serious series I read when I was about 13-14 was David Louis Edelman's Jump 225 trilogy series. Honestly, I don't see this series get nearly enough notice on the internet. What a awe inspiring bio/tech heavy series with immersive characters, encounters, character design and a lot at stake. This book series snaps to the front of my memories every time I think about great sci fi writing. I think I have reread this trilogy 4 or 5 times since my first encounter.

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Harvester said:
Most of my first encounters with science fiction books are lost to a foggy memory but the first serious series I read when I was about 13-14 was David Louis Edelman's Jump 225 trilogy series. Honestly, I don't see this series get nearly enough notice on the internet. What a awe inspiring bio/tech heavy series with immersive characters, encounters, character design and a lot at stake. This book series snaps to the front of my memories every time I think about great sci fi writing. I think I have reread this trilogy 4 or 5 times since my first encounter.

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Never heard of it.
Does this mean that you are an older Gen-Z?

The first 8 chapters are free on Baen Books.

 
Maybe 10 or so, We were down in London and my mother for some reason bought me Asimov's 'I Robot'. Soon after I found Simak. The local library had one of those pivoting stands on which at least one face had sf books.
 
I started reading Fantasy and for a long time that was all I read, was at a friends house, her dad was a cool guy and had a bookcase with lots of SFF. He recommended David Gemmell to me, I read Dark Moon by Gemmel in about 3 days - when I returned the book he didn't believe I had read it and let me keep it. He kept me going with books for years.

Eventually I read "Islands in the Sky" by ACC and then I moved onto Peter F Hamilton, from there I just started devouring everything SFF I could :)
 
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