tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post5520374065543049634..comments2024-03-28T12:46:20.637-04:00Comments on alien romances: What Are Your Earliest Science Fiction Memories?Rowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-91630163389441639512011-05-16T15:51:45.244-04:002011-05-16T15:51:45.244-04:00Escape to Witch Mountain by Disney was my favorite...Escape to Witch Mountain by Disney was my favorite when I was a kid. It is probably the first movie that I saw with a flying saucer that I loved. Flying saucers were all the rage. Movies like that and The Cat from Outerspace were my favorite. Star Wars came out between those two, and even though I did see it in the theater, I didn't fully appreciate Star Wars until I was a little older. I thought it was a cool show, but only because they were on another planet and not for the story as I was so young. But I could identify with the Cat from Outerspace at that age!Angela's Designshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07084171413220960852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-13622765783640109552011-05-16T12:35:24.707-04:002011-05-16T12:35:24.707-04:00Starting at age 8: The Tarzan series, if you count...Starting at age 8: The Tarzan series, if you count them as SF. I consider the growth of a human child brought up by nonhuman animals an SF theme (at least, as Burroughs handles it -- the JUNGLE BOOK by Kipling has more of a fantasy feel).<br /><br />I loved Superman. The first strictly SF novel (as opposed to comic) I remember being enthralled with was A WRINKLE IN TIME. Madeleine L'Engle later became one of my all-time favorite authors. <br /><br />I was a horror fan first, but I read lots of SF along the way. Several of my favorite authors in my teens, e.g. Matheson, Sturgeon, Bloch, Bradbury, and Lovecraft, wrote SF as well as horror and fantasy.Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-83606606820173971242011-05-15T20:58:47.235-04:002011-05-15T20:58:47.235-04:00I think I watched SF as a baby. LOL. I remember St...I think I watched SF as a baby. LOL. I remember Star Trek TOS, Ultraman, Godzilla movies, and of course Star Wars was the first movie my parents let me attend with just my brother.<br /><br />I was reading on an adult level by 7 or 8 and my Dad would take me to the used book store in which I could pick "as many as I wanted" because they were half the less than a dollar price--and the SF was in a room to itself--a whole room. I'd go home with 25 or so and read them in two weeks. They were short. LOL. <br /><br />I suspect my first SF book was a Scholastic book since I'd order my own box full each month. Or maybe it was one of Dad's. I remember an SF poetry book he had. LOL. <br /><br />I know for certain I read Dune at 12, but I'd already read a bunch of SFs that I can't remember. AE Van Vogt, Asmiov, Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover, Anne McCaffery. By 8 Dad was taking me to the University to sit in on his Astronomy lectures. Pretty fun stuff.<br /><br />Around the same time they started showing Tom Baker's Dr. Who on PBS and we'd watch it together.<br /><br />So, I suppose I've always loved SF. I only noticed that I like Romance in the past 12-13 years.doxymomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510879128049183564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-32706036207412175162011-05-15T09:21:33.614-04:002011-05-15T09:21:33.614-04:00I fell in love with SF around age 10. I saw a boo...I fell in love with SF around age 10. I saw a book with a rocket ship on the cover and checked it out. It was Trouble on Titan. The only problem was there were no major female characters only males so in my mind I rewrote to include a girl in the story. I already had to mind set when SF appeared on TV.JC Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00465446051021667245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-50553195118561016772011-05-15T09:13:37.083-04:002011-05-15T09:13:37.083-04:00The first book I ever read outside of my chosen el...The first book I ever read outside of my chosen elementary school fare of animal books was 'A Wrinkle In Time'. It was placed in my hands by the school librarian; I think I read it through 3 times, and was utterly captivated. remembering that...I'd like to read it again!Lihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08831231531918915804noreply@blogger.com