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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
| Subject | Re: What's the first SF book you read? |
| Message-ID | <o8GH7C.vrC@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2016-06-08 13:52 +0000 |
| References | <88bf1f63-d57f-4ed5-a2a5-8c6c3cd1dce8@googlegroups.com> <nj91nf$jlp$1@dont-email.me> |
| Organization | Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. |
In article <nj91nf$jlp$1@dont-email.me>, Anthony Nance <nance@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >alal65536@gmail.com wrote: >> What's the first SF book you read? If you can remember. The first >work I remember reading when I was about 5, are the Indian classics >"Mahabharata" and "Ramayana". Truly they are mythology, and not really >traditional SF. >> >> I remember reading "Lord of the Rings" when I was about ten. That got >me hooked into reading fantasy. As far as science-fiction, I cannot >remember which was the first book I read. Probably Asimov or Heinlein. >> > > >The first two science-fiction I read were Lester del Rey's >Tunnel Through Time and Robert Silverberg's Planet of Death. >I don't remember which one I read first. I was around 10 yrs >old, and I remember both fondly. Shortly after that I read >The War of the Worlds[1] and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, >the latter of which is still a favorite. > >Shortly after those four, the first fantasy I read was >Felix Salten's Bambi. I thought it was excellent, >re-reading it many times; however, my spec-fic reading >stayed pretty heavily skewed to science fiction until >I read The Hobbit in high school. Oh Lord. The first two science fiction *books* I read were Coblentz's _Into Plutonian Depths_ and Farley's _The Radio Man_ (retitled _An Earth Man on Venus_). They had been reprinted in the 1950s but dated from the 1920s. It is a wonder that I ever read any SF again ... except that my mother subscribed to _Astounding._ So I was reading SF *stories* before those dreadful books. I can remember looking over her shoulder to read a story which must have been Schmitz's "Space Fear" (1951, if memory serves). -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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What's the first SF book you read? alal65536@gmail.com - 2016-06-08 04:36 -0700
Re: What's the first SF book you read? nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2016-06-08 12:06 +0000
Re: What's the first SF book you read? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:52 +0000
Re: What's the first SF book you read? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-06-08 11:38 -0400
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Re: What's the first SF book you read? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:16 +0000
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Re: What's the first SF book you read? alal65536@gmail.com - 2016-06-10 02:08 -0700
Re: What's the first SF book you read? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 14:56 +0000
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