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Old 3rd September 2007, 06:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Can You Remember Your First Science Fiction Novel?

Spaceship Medic by Harry Harrison (Puffin Books)

1981

and Galactic Warlord by Douglas Hill

both about the same time
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Old 3rd September 2007, 07:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Can You Remember Your First Science Fiction Novel?

my first science fiction book was World war in the balance by Harry Turtledove in 2000 one first classic was Dune by Frank Herbert
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Old 3rd September 2007, 07:40 PM   #3 (permalink)
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So long ago...............
Possibly The Caves Of Steel, by Asimov - about 1966ish....
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Old 3rd September 2007, 07:46 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Must have been a part of Dune, around 2002.
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Old 3rd September 2007, 08:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Can You Remember Your First Science Fiction Novel?

My first sf novel (as opposed to collection-cum-novel) would probably have been John Brunner's Meeting at Infinity (1961), closely followed by his The Dreaming Earth (1963)... though I may have read Wells' The War of the Worlds just slightly earlier... as Pyan said, it's a loooong time ago (about 1964-65 for me....)
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Old 3rd September 2007, 08:20 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Earthlight - Arthur C Clarke
About '57, summer, anyway.
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Old 3rd September 2007, 09:48 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Dune (F.Herbert) - Loved it!

It was summer 1977. Camping holiday in the Brecon Beacons. I "borrowed" it from my old man. I was a bit too young to take it all in but I read it all anyway. I suppose that family holidays in Wales can drive you to almost anything...
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Red Planet, by Robert Heinlein. I must have been in about third grade. That would have been, let's see, around 1964 or so.
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Re: Can You Remember Your First Science Fiction Novel?

I'm not sure. I know a teacher got me reading Ray Bradbury, but I don't know if I was already reading John Wyndham by then. If you count 'The Hobbit' then I read that in junior school. I think I also read John Christopher's 'The White Mountains' about that time too.
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No idea, but likely to be either Asimov or Clarke. Also the John Christopher series were hugely popular with me and my mates back then (around 75, 76). I'm with Dave, if you count The Hobbit then that was definitely my first one.
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Revolt on Alpha C by Robert Silverberg maybe, or...
Red Planet by Heinlein... or it could have been
Witch World or Beast Master by Andre Norton

hmmm

makes me want to go back and reread them all...

my mother is an avid (and I mean rabidly avid ) science fiction and fantasy reader, her second passion was mysteries.

we went to the library once every 2 weeks as far back as I can remember. I had my own box for my books.

my father is a history reader. He doesn't collect books like my mother, but he loves to talk about them.

I was and am extremely fortunate.
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A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, in 1948. I was 13. It ended on a cliff hanger and it took me 11 or 12 years to find the next book in the series.
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Probably something in my dad's collection, Asimov, Heinlein or Clarke. The first sci-fi short I read and fell in love with is Nightfall by Asimov, sometime in 1985.
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Yes I can. The very first Sci Fi book I read was John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids. Loved it then and still love it now.
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