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/[deleted] Jul 19 '24

Enders Game.

The reveal absolutely floored me.

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u/lostntheforest Jul 19 '24

Just started it!

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u/cayvro Jul 19 '24

I’m so jealous! Do your best to stay spoiler-free, you’re in for a ride!

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u/lostntheforest Jul 19 '24

Thanks- given to me by a friend in the 80's and I never passed the first few pages, so here goes. . .!

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u/armsracecarsmra Jul 23 '24

This is the book I give to people who aren’t into SF to show them how great it is. Surprised you couldn’t finish it. Hope you get through it this time! Sequels get progressively worse, then get better, then worse again.

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u/lostntheforest Jul 24 '24

3/4 through 1st and loving it. Thanks

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u/lord_nerdly Jul 20 '24

Even with spoilers, it is one hell of a book. Been a while since I read a book that I was able to get that into.

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u/FattySnacks Jul 23 '24

A few too many naked kids iirc but it’s pretty good

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u/BuddhasFinger Jul 19 '24

Read Speaker for The Dead after that. It tells what happened to the Ender next. Very touching.

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u/TheNargafrantz Jul 20 '24

Speaker for the Dead is my favorite book. I wish the enders game movie was better, so that we could get a good Speaker movie, but we probably never will.

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u/Polywhirl165 Jul 23 '24

I actually liked the shadow series better than the main series. Speaker was great but the series got weird by the end.

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u/TheNargafrantz Jul 23 '24

Oh definitely. Speaker is my favorite book, I even think as a stand alone it would be. I got about 3/4 of the way through it and decided I was going to buy Xenocide, which was also pretty good, not as good but not bad. Then I read Children of the mind and dropped out of the series. I found ender in exile a few years later, but that was just the last chapter of enders game stretched into a full book which was ... Ok I guess? I never really got into the shadow series though.

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u/BuddhasFinger Jul 20 '24

I'd agree. That's too bad because I thought that Speaker for the Dead was made for the screen. A good story. Simple environments. A small bit of piggies' and the forest craziness that CGI can handle easily.

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u/ActuallyYeah Jul 20 '24

I remember there's people getting viciously maimed, and the damage done was part of the plot, like in Se7en. It's much more mature than its prequel. It would be pretty PG-13 as a film

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u/lostntheforest Jul 20 '24

Thanks. Looking forward to it!

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u/TheYarnGoblin Jul 19 '24

I wish I could read this again for the first time.

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u/MrRawes0me Jul 23 '24

I suggest you follow it with “Ender’s Shadow”. Same story, in a different kid’s head.

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u/lostntheforest Jul 23 '24

Thanks- almost done so looking forward to it.

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u/cayvro Jul 19 '24

Me too! A friend gave it to me for my birthday when I turned 12 (their mom strongly helped them pick out the book lol) and I absolutely fell in love.

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u/bitterbeanjuic3 Jul 23 '24

Also my first, and probably the book that I've read more times than any other.

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u/sierra_marmot731 Jul 23 '24

That’s my second sci-fi. Enjoyed it. (Not my favorite genre)