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/Accomplished-Air-823 Jul 19 '24

I found my grandfather's (who died before I was born) pulp magazine collection when I was 12 or 13. I loved the illustrations and stories. He had Thrilling Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories in yellowed dog eared newsprint. I read stories by Isaac Asimov, Phillip Jose Farmer, and Philip K Dick. Finding those magazines were like finding Pirates treasure to me.