Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was still fairly new. I was amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked myself, where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? Is there more like it? I was in fourth grade.
Read, or read to? The first book I read myself was one of the ERB Mars books, probably "A Princess of Mars". I would guess second or third grade, about 1942. But before that my mother (who gave me the ERB) had read the Alice books, Wonderland/Looking Glass, and Kingsley's "Water Babies" I think I started on Amazing stories a year or two later.
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 07:30:23 -0700 (PDT), "bayno...@yahoo.com"
<bayn...@gmail.com> wrote: >Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was >still fairly new. I was amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked myself, >where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? Is >there more like it? >I was in fourth grade.
bayno...@yahoo.com wrote: > Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was > still fairly new. I was amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked myself, > where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? Is > there more like it? > I was in fourth grade.
Asimov's "Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn." Sometime in elementary school.
But actually, I had been exposed to SF and fantasy at an even earlier age--through television. The very first TV drama I ever watched, at age 6, was The Twilight Zone.
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On Jul 5, 10:44 am, P. Taine <u...@domaine.invalid> wrote:
> Read, or read to? The first book I read myself was one of the ERB Mars books, > probably "A Princess of Mars". I would guess second or third grade, about 1942. > But before that my mother (who gave me the ERB) had read the Alice books, > Wonderland/Looking Glass, and Kingsley's "Water Babies" I think I started on > Amazing stories a year or two later.
You know what was some good stuff, warped & ruined by subsequent film perversions?? The "Doctor Dolittle" series.
bayno...@yahoo.com wrote: > Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it > was > still fairly new. I was amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked > myself, > where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? > Is > there more like it? > I was in fourth grade.
Asimov's _Nightfall and Other Stories_. I was in 5th grade.
In article <7c73f095-d748-43f0-be1e-662cdb881...@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
bayno...@yahoo.com <bayn...@gmail.com> wrote: >Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was >still fairly new..... >I was in fourth grade.
Hm. Counting on my fingers, I think I was also in fourth grade when I read an SF *book*. I was reading SF before that, because my mother did; she bought _Astounding_ and (when they started up in the early fifties) _F&SF_ and _Galaxy_. But the first novel I read was Stanton A. Coblenz's _Into Plutonian Depths_, which was published as a novel in 1950 but had previously been serialized in (says ISFDB) _Wonder Stories Quarterly,_ Spring 1931. And it showed its age; but I was eight years old and my critical faculties were not well-developed.
Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djhe...@kithrup.com
On 2008-07-05 07:30:23 -0700, "bayno...@yahoo.com" <bayn...@gmail.com> said:
> Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was > still fairly new. I was amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked myself, > where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? Is > there more like it? > I was in fourth grade.
For me, it may have been THE LAND OF OZ, by L. Frank Baum. Provided that one chooses not to count Dr. Seuss books, which are pretty fantastic in content.
On 2008-07-05 09:23:27 -0700, "bayno...@yahoo.com" <bayn...@gmail.com> said:
> On Jul 5, 10:44 am, P. Taine <u...@domaine.invalid> wrote: >> Read, or read to? The first book I read myself was one of the ERB Mars > books, >> probably "A Princess of Mars". I would guess second or third grade, ab > out 1942. >> But before that my mother (who gave me the ERB) had read the Alice books, >> Wonderland/Looking Glass, and Kingsley's "Water Babies" I think I star > ted on >> Amazing stories a year or two later.
> You know what was some good stuff, warped & ruined by subsequent film > perversions?? The "Doctor Dolittle" series.
The books are still the same, unruined.
Well, depending on one's opinion about the edits for racist content, but that had nothing to do with movies.
I would later get through the juvenile sf of Angus MacVicar and Patrick Moore, not to mention Dan Dare in the Eagle comic. The first grown-up sf novel I can remember reading was Rex Gordon's _No Man Friday_ (First on Mars) which I think I tackled at eight or nine.
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> Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was > still fairly new. I was amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked myself, > where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? Is > there more like it? > I was in fourth grade.
On Jul 5, 10:30 am, "bayno...@yahoo.com" <bayn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mine was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", so long ago it was > still fairly new. I was amazed, enthralled, thrilled; I asked myself, > where have they been keeping this stuff? Have they been hiding it? Is > there more like it? > I was in fourth grade.
Mine was <Between Planets> also by Heinlein. I was sentenced to work in the school library in Eighth Grade. I had never read _anything_ outside my school work before that because reading didn't involve being outdoors (although I know now that one CAN read outdoors) I think I asked Ms. Powell what to do after the my tiny workload was completed and she pointed to some books that "happened" to be on her desk. Or maybe I was just standing around look dumb and she suggested I read one of those books.
I read all four of the Heinlein juvies we had in that library one after another, read some Andre Norton, memorably <Starman's Son> then I started looking around the library for other stuff.
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In article <b553bf82-9e3c-4814-8e22-9277fb636...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
bayno...@yahoo.com <bayn...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Jul 5, 10:44 am, P. Taine <u...@domaine.invalid> wrote: >> Read, or read to? The first book I read myself was one of the ERB Mars books, >> probably "A Princess of Mars". I would guess second or third grade, >about 1942. >> But before that my mother (who gave me the ERB) had read the Alice books, >> Wonderland/Looking Glass, and Kingsley's "Water Babies" I think I started on >> Amazing stories a year or two later.
>You know what was some good stuff, warped & ruined by subsequent film >perversions?? The "Doctor Dolittle" series.
Well, I thought they were good. The books, that is --- though the Rex Harrison film wasn't so bad IMO. But a friend of mine, when the books were mentioned (this was around 1970) said that they were horrible, bigoted, biased *anti-Russian* diatribes. Now, I don't remember anything about Russians in the books at all. But it's been years. Can anyone remember?
Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djhe...@kithrup.com
