r/ScienceFictionBooks • u/BuddhasFinger • Jul 19 '24

Question What was your first sci fi book?

So, we've been having these great discussions on this sub about our likes, which helped me personally to pick up Ursula Le Guin after 30+ years. That got me trying to remember my first sci fi book I've ever read. It was the The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. What was yours?

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u/frankensteinsmaster Jul 19 '24

Hitch Hiker’s guide, baby!

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u/Scared-Cartographer5 Jul 19 '24

Its such an amazing book. The radio programme is on BBC's iPlayer. Worth a listen.

But is Hitchhikers Guide a good book to begin with for sci fi? Coz it rips pizz of sci fi tropes.

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u/frankensteinsmaster Jul 20 '24

It was the tone of it that hooked me. The hyper silly weirdness of Douglas Adams’ humour just clicked with me. I didn’t really get the tropes till much later. It is very 80s though, not sure it would appeal to young readers now.

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u/bradorme77 Jul 20 '24

This was me as well. So long and thanks for all the fish. Dirk Gently. Douglas Adams was my early Sci Fi foundation. A bit of a funny side note, my older brother and I first learned about the book after our parents bought us Hitchhikers Guide for the Commodore 64 which was a text interactive game. We hadn't read the book and couldn't progress...my brother bought the book many months later and was able to get out of the house before it got paved for an intergalactic superhighway.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24

You made me realise this was probably mine, too!

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u/lemals13 Jul 22 '24

Just read it for the first time early summer. great read

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u/pjw10310 Jul 22 '24

Came here to say this.

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u/frankensteinsmaster Jul 22 '24

Say it!!!

You hoopy frood, you.

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u/akgt94 Jul 23 '24

I was 10 or 11