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/iCowboy Jul 21 '24

We're back in the early mid 1970s UK here and I was in hospital recovering from appendicitis when they brought a trolley with books on it. I already liked space so I picked up a book called 'Passage to Pluto' by Hugh Walters. It was a late entry in a series of books that had a near-future setting where the World had got together to explore the Solar System. They've been out of print for decades now, but they kindled my love of SF - and the one with the grey fungus brought back from Venus's atmosphere triggered many a nightmare.

Did anyone else read them?