[Daenerys]

I think there has never been a time I wasnt drawn to science fiction (and fantasy would be a dead give away since I always loved fairy tales: any fairy tales. Not just the girly-princessy ones. I loved Red Riding Hood being eaten up. I loved the 7 brothers being turned into swans. I loved what the stories told me without telling me in words. I understood subtext as.. a... toddler...?)

But my first memory of understanding I liked scifi was when I was 6 and I was reading a comic (in Dutch) called Storm. Storm was set in a not-determined futuristic apocalyptic post/pre-technology setting. I loved the questions it brought up in my mind.

My parents don't get science fiction. They don't get fantasy. I do think my grandfather would have understood Star Trek TOS, but he was more into westerns and history than the future. So it wasn't a family thing. I never thought I'd find a lot of people that understood scifi. Now I know better. But I still think 'we' as scifi/fantasy aficionados are the exception. But I like it that way.