Can You Remember Your First Science Fiction Novel?

[zedlav]

Isaac Asimov's The God's Themselves, I think. That or a lot of Bradbury's short stories.

Of course there was Jules Verne and Wells before that, but I don't think it counts as such. I didn't really distinguish between Captain Grant's Children and The Invisible Man then.

[AE35Unit]

Well well look what i found! Probably the book that started it all for me,given to me as a christmas present when I was much much younger.


Oh fond memories!

[rimworlder]

Originally Posted by Zanussi

Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein, it converted me from war stories to sci-fi on the spot.

OMG, me too.

(Well, I actually read War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon and Journey to the Center of the Earth before Starman Jones, but I bought them all at the same time and consciously decided to read SJ last rather than first, because somehow I knew it was going to be the best.

[edott]

Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids read it in 4th grade. been hooked ever since.

[SpaceShip]

Originally Posted by Connavar

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


A huge omnibus with the hole series which i read in the two hour trip to school everyday in 2002.


It was the funniest week i have had with a book. I kept laughing out loud that people looked at me like i was crazy

Yep - mine too. And very funny!

[Nada]

Difficult to remember, but I think Jules Verne From Earth to the Moon. The first pure SF book I remember is Robert Silverberg's "Those To Watch". Both are from the early '80s, (late 1982 I think) when i was 8. by the age of 11 I was already an avid Asimov and Heinlein fan, but this is another story...

[yngvi]

I remember reading a book from the library called "Blast off from Woomera", but also remeber reading 'R is for Rocket' and 'S is for Space' by Ray Bradbury. The first paperback I bought was 'The Silkie' by A E Van Vogt.

[biodroid]

i think mine was a Robert Silverberg presents Time Tours where a kid journeys back in time to Rome, or the Arthur C. Clarke book (not sure about the name) where a boy wins a contest to go on a spacestation. And I think a Bob Shaw novel as well where they shoot rocket powered arrows and the clouds shoots laser-like lightning or something? It was a long time ago so I can't really recall the names.

[Nightmare]

Originally Posted by biodroid

...or the Arthur C. Clarke book (not sure about the name) where a boy wins a contest to go on a spacestation.

That would be Islands in the Sky. A great novel to introduce a child to hard sci-fi. Sir Arthur creates a fun adventure using only real science, and accurately predicts the realities of orbital operations years before humans had even gone into space.

[ktabic]

The earliest one I can remember reading is Galactic Warlord. Never did get to read the sequels since the school library never got them in.

[Snowdog]

I think I said before that Fighting Man of Mars was my first SF novel. Well it might have been my first adult book.

But biodroid's post has reminded me of a children's book I was given as a present called Kemlo and the Star Men by E. C. Elliott about the adventures of children who lived on a space station. I lost my copy a long time ago which is a great pity because I believe they now go for quite a lot on eBay. Plus I wouldn't mind re-reading it.

[Lobolover]

First one I can remember now was Well's "Time Machine" .

[Salvelinus]

My first was Asimov's "The Currents of Space"

I think this may indeed have been the first novel I ever read. In any event, I only read that novel once, but can remember more of it than 1/2 the novels I have read in the past couple years. How's that for a lasting impression!

[mosaix]

The Silver Locusts - Ray Bradbury

[woodsman]

War of the Worlds and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, both about the same time, strange to say, I didn't look back!