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Science Fiction

Science Fiction

Readers and writers of science fiction.

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Posted byAnonHarpoonsKylain/scifi-Sep 10, 2016 at 9:04 AM

First Science Fiction Book Read

What was the first science fiction book you read, and how old were you?

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  • dotsonapageSep 10, 2016 at 4:41 PM

    A Wrinkle in Time, when I was 8. Didn't appreciate it nearly enough at the time, though re-reading it and its sequels in middle school made me the massive L'Engle fangirl I am today. Then I read Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong and fell in love.

  • LabyrinthWeaverSep 13, 2016 at 8:55 AM

    I think it was Asimov's The End of Eternity (in Hungarian translation), when I was about 11 or 12. I read a lot of Clarke and Asimov at the time (plus a lot of old Galaktika magazines.).

  • SanasaiSep 29, 2016 at 2:19 PM

    Mine was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet at about....6? 7? ish. L'Engel came in a year or two, and I found Asimov probably somewhere around 12ish?

  • Type42FireflySep 11, 2016 at 6:11 PM

    One of the first was Jane Langton's "The Time Bike", at maybe 9? I've been a sucker for time travel ever since

  • the_rckSep 10, 2016 at 1:05 PM

    It may have been one of Todd Ruthven's Space Cat books, probably in first or second grade, but it didn't make a big impression on me. The one that did was a time travel book called The Girl Who Slipped Through Time by Paula Hendrich in third grade or maybe fourth grade, and it was an H.M. Hoover book, The Treasures of Morrow, that made me search for other books by the same author because it was clear reading it that there was a book that came before it that my elementary school library didn't have. Fortunately, the public library did. That has to have been fourth or fifth grade because I was able to go to the library by myself.

  • AnonHarpoonsKylaSep 10, 2016 at 9:07 AM

    Mine was Isaac Asimov's The Robots of Dawn at the age of 10! I instantly fell in love, and sci-fi has been my favorite genre ever since.

  • fancyboneSep 13, 2016 at 8:34 AMΔ

    For me, it was Russian translation of the Sector General stories by James White. But the first Russian-language scifi novel I read was "The Burning Island", by Alexander Kazantsev. I'd love to find another copy.

    I'm not sure how old I was, but given that I moved before I was 10, I must have been around 8 or 9 when I read these.

    https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2

Science Fiction

Science Fiction

Readers and writers of science fiction.

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