What was your first exposure to science fiction?
POSTED BY: TrainBandit
UPDATED: Friday, September 25, 2009 16:01
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Two words: Ray Bradbury
My parents had all kinds of books in their basement and I pulled one of them out one day that was called "The Illustrated Man." After that, I was hooked.
Other big influences would be 2001, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Another memory just came to me: sitting with my mom, my brother, and his girlfriend watching the original airing of the Star Trek TOS episode that featured the space hippies (spa-hippies?). You know, the ones with the horrific sounding disease, who were looking for Eden. Sorry, can't remember the title. My brother was a hippie and we - mostly he and his girlfriend - had a gas laughing at network tv's take on 60's counterculture.
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Another memory just came to me: sitting with my mom, my brother, and his girlfriend watching the original airing of the Star Trek TOS episode that featured the space hippies (spa-hippies?). You know, the ones with the horrific sounding disease, who were looking for Eden. Sorry, can't remember the title. My brother was a hippie and we - mostly he and his girlfriend - had a gas laughing at network tv's take on 60's counterculture.
'The Way to Eden'. Widely regarded as one of the worst TOS episodes, but then a lot of the third season was pretty below-average, between Shatner's antics, the poor writing and the lousy set design resulting from sharp budget cuts. Don't get me wrong, as Trek goes I'm forever faithful to TOS. There are just a couple of third-season episodes I cannot force myself to watch even with the DVD remaster.
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first exposure??? god only knows, my first Clear memory however, is waking up in the movie theater and loudly asking "WHERE ARE WE??" ( i was 3), during Return of the Jedi.( the dialogue scene between Luke and Vader on the walkway bridge thingy under the shuttle pad @ the Endor shield projector base thing, "v: I see you have built a new lightsaber, etc...."
and as a kid i wasn't scared of the boogie man or some other weird monster coming to get me at night, it was ALWAYS Darth Vader that was going to get me.
now i have my 7 year old nephew hooked on star wars and Doctor Who. I guess there is just nerd in our family's DNA.
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thanks for the title. btw, funny poems
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I have a bad memory (well, a good memory, but the date stamps fell off) so I think the first thing was the animated Ulysses (sp?) and other such kids cartoons, then either Buck Rodgers or the original Battlestar galactica, all re runs I should imagine. At all points there was an exposure to Star Trek and other big ones, but they were the ones I sat down to watch. My biggest love was fantasy though so all the books I read were fantasy based, until my teens at least.
Hm, no, i stand by the first statement - i have a bad memory.
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Hey all,
What was your first book, movie, tv show, cartoon strip, or even real world event that first got you interested in space and science? What IS it about this sub-culture we inhabit that is so compelling?
For me it was two things: one, the first moon landing in 1969. I was twelve, in camp fire girls camp, and we were called to an all-camp meeting in the courtyard where we had the flag raising and lowering ceremonies every day, right outside of the mess hall. We all crowded around a tiny black and white set they ran outside on an extension cord to watch these little figures actually walk on the moon. It was beyond description, we were so excited, it was so amazing.
The second thing was, my dad went through most of Robert A. Heinlein's adult books that fall, right after the moon landing. I read them all, and then went to my school library and burned through his juvenile books. For those of you who don't know Heinlein, he was (RIP Robert) one of the Grandmasters of science ficion, that is, one of the first, a trailblazer, along with other greats like Arthur C. Clark and Philip K. Dick and many, many more. He is one of the best, most prolific, and possibly the most perverted authors of sci-fi I've ever read. However, I was so enamored of his genius story-telling ability that I forgave him his weirdness completely. I owe him a debt: his books saved my life during 7th grade, and if you've ever been in 7th grade, or are there now, you know what I mean!
After that summer and fall, I was hooked like a little guppy on a line.
Goodness, our experiences are almost exactly the same. I watched the moon landing with my family, gathered around our tv. So excited, so proud. One of the highlights of my life to this day.
I also read Heinlein- Stranger in a Strange Land when I was in 5th grade. SciFi became my fiction of choice almost immediately. I went from Heinlein to Asimov, to Clarke to Herbert. I ate it up. ( Strangely I was unconcerned about Mr. Heinlein's and Mr. Herbert's R rated prose.
)I was also a huge ST:TOS fan. I watched and rewatched over the years and never missed an ep of all the series nor the movies either. Star Wars captivated me until the prequels, then like PR above, I was so turned off I can't even watch the originals with the same love. :(
I get teased in my family a lot for being "weird/geeky/nerdy but I'm damned proud of it and credit my adventures in scifi land with making me a broader minded, better educated person. :)
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I get teased in my family a lot for being "weird/geeky/nerdy but I'm damned proud of it and credit my adventures in scifi land with making me a broader minded, better educated person. :)
yep, that's me. My brother, who is as different from me as, well, I can't even think of two things far apart enough to describe it, once told me "you believe in magic." Right. Anyway, I know what you mean.
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