Re: What Was The First S-F Story You Ever Read?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Linda M. Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:44:26 -0500, "Glenn P.,"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Just to start a New Thread, what was everyone's "first" Sci-Fi book/story?
> 
> It was either one of the Danny Dunn books or MISS PICKEREL GOES TO
> MARS.

"The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells.  

My mother got it out of the library.  She never said anything about it 
to me.  I don't know for sure whether she truly got it to read for 
herself or whether it was a kind, if sneaky, ploy.  But there it was 
lying around the house, so I read it.  I think I was eight or nine at 
the time.  I was absolutely transfixed by it.  

Some time later I got the Dover "Twenty-Eight Science Fiction Stories by 
H. G. Wells." 

Around junior high school I discovered the Heinlein juveniles.  Oh, and 
the Groff Conklin anthologies (Science Fiction Adventures in 
Dimension... Science Fiction Thinking Machines... The Best of Science 
Fiction.)  By high school I was subscribing to Galaxy and The Magazine 
of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  I first read "Have Space Suit, Will 
Travel" and "Starship Troopers" serialized in F&SF.

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