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Post by The Captain on Aug 3, 2016 7:33:10 GMT -5
My dad took me to see Star Wars when I was five. Nuff said.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 3, 2016 18:43:41 GMT -5
My dad took me to see Star Wars when I was five. Nuff said. I was the same age when my Dad took me.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 21:25:21 GMT -5
When my family went to see Star Wars in the 70's my Mom tripped & dumped the whole large tub of buttered popcorn on me...
She couldn't stop laughing anytime she glanced over at me...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 22:50:29 GMT -5
I've always loved comics and nerdy things, but three franchises loom large in my world.
My very first memory (of anything) is going to the theatre to see Return of the Jedi. I can picture getting out of the car and holding my mother's hand as we walked inside. I can remember seeing the simple poster of a hand holding a lightsaber as the Death Star looms in the background. I don't know how much of this is real and how much is fantasy but that is my starting point.
I can remember loving Star Trek III and having a conversation with dad, and him asking me if I'd see Star Trek II and when I told him I hadn't, he went right out and rented it for us to watch.
And finally, I went on a camping trip with my cousins (and camping I mean staying in a camper, not roughing it). My oldest cousin kept fiddling with the tiny 9 inch TV they had-trying to get PBS to come in clearly, because he didn't want to miss his favourite show. That was the night we gathered around to watch Snakedance and the night I discovered Doctor Who.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 23:24:51 GMT -5
I am not sure I recall how I came to love science fiction, as I was very young when I became a fan-by the time I was in 1st grade (circa '75-76ish)I was already a fan of Star Trek, had the Megos, watched syndicated reruns after school whenever I could, read the Gold Key comics when I got my hands on them and watched the animated series. Six Million Dollar man was also big for me around that age as well, as I watched the show whenever I could and had the action figures as well.
I was also big into astronomy, constellations (from Greek mythology), and astronauts as a kid too (the alien villain The Intruder and Atomic Mike were favorites among my GI Joe toys at the time as well, as well as the astronaut gear I had for the Joes. I think I had some Viewmaster reels of NASA stuff too at the time. I think I first saw a few film adaptations of HG Wells at this time and had junior novel versions of Wells' and Verne's stuff among my books. There was some sci-fi elements in some of the Marvel Comics I had at the time too.
But it was circa 1977 with the release of Star Wars and the ensuing flood of sci-fi material everywhere (Battle of the Planets, Battlestar Galactica, Filmation's Flash Gordon, Blackstar, Thundarr, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Micronauts toys, etc.), that sealed the deal for me.
The only sci-fi thing I didn't like that I encountered at that time was Dr. Who-I didn't see the show, but an aunt got me one of the Pertwee adaptations in novel form( -Day of the Daleks) and I had zero frame of reference for it when I tried to read it at 8 years old and got completely lost and befuddled. I would later become a fan of Who about 5 years later though.
In 1980, just after Empire Strikes Back was released, we moved to Maine. I discovered Burroughs' Barsoom through an aunt's boyfriend (as mentioned in the ERB thread). He also gave me a Frederick Pohl novel to try, which I had trouble getting through but mostly liked, found Perry Rhodan books in the local library there, started reading the regular (as opposed to juvenile) versions of Wells and Verne, and got cable for the first time and watched Creature Double Feature on WLVI out of Boston every Saturday with tons of 50s sci-fi and creature movies, plus a ton of Godzilla stuff. I discovered the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials on PBS via Matinee at the Bijou, experienced the Star Trek movie on The Movie Channel with cable and got to see the Dino DiLaurentis Flash Gordon movie which I adored despite it's cheesiness.
Moved back to CT in '82 and during the summer found Dr. Who playing on WOR out of New York on cable at my grandfather's place, and was introduced to Tom Baker during Ark in Space, and later found Who on the PBS stations there and began to experience Pertwee and more Tom Baker, and eventually Peter Davision. I reread that Who novelization, now with a frame of reference and enjoyed it, and started getting as many as I could of the novelizations, especially of Hartnell and Troughton stories since I had no hope of ever seeing them at the time. Finding out about the DR. Who comic from Marvel led me to discovering my first comic shop within a couple of years of that.
Started to read Asimov, Clarke and Bradbury, saw 2001 for the first time when we rented a VCR for the weekend for the first time, and started playing things like Car Wars, Traveller and Gamma World with my D&D buddies, plus every space type game I could get for my Atari. Still loved astronomy and astronauts too, but fantasy and Indiana Jones was leading me into more history, archaeology and such and that outpaced my interest in the sciences and became a much more powerful lure. By the time I graduated high school, sci-fi had become secondary to those interests as well; history, comics, D&D and Tolkien were my main pursuits during the university years, but I was never gone from sci-fi for very long or strayed very far from it, and I really cannot remember a time where it wasn't part of my life in some way, shape, or form.
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Post by Outrajs on Jul 29, 2017 3:06:56 GMT -5
When I was about 5 my mother took my older sister and I to see the wrath of Khan at the movie theater. We freaked out so bad at the earwig scene she had to take us home.
I've been hooked on sci-fi ever since.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jul 29, 2017 5:39:57 GMT -5
I think comics were my gateway to being an SF fan.
Id always read, books, comics, newspapers, magazine's, cereal packets...I read ALL the time, and I read anything.
At around 13 I really got into collecting (as opposed to just devouring) comics but also fell in love with the "collector" thingy when I read about Forrest Ackerman... man I wanted to be him, a collection of EVERY SF book and magazine, now there was a challenge I could face so much more easily than friends or "shudder" girls.
Star Wars is hitting, but no real factor, 2000AD has rung my bells, Im coming off a major western novel binge(JT Edson and Louis Lamour) and I get started, Asimov, Heinlein, LeGuin, Ellison and Herberts Dune, my god, Dune.
I had always got into genre movies and tv, Trek, Lost In Space, WWW, Land of Giants, and probably my favorite, Planet of the Apes, and would go on to love classic monster movies, horror films(which I cant handle anymore) and especially Harryhausen stopmotion. BUT it was comics that did me in...
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 29, 2017 7:25:37 GMT -5
I cannot remember a time when I did not love Sci-Fi and fantasy. Growing up in the 60s we all just naturally took to it. Maybe it was NASA trying to get to the moon. Maybe all those 50s sci-fi movies on TV. It was just in our DNA. I didn't discover Sci-Fi, it always seemed to be there.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 29, 2017 8:22:48 GMT -5
'What was your gateway which drew you into the cosmic vastness of the universe within science-fiction? '
technically my foray into science-fiction would be 1960's anime, which was on the tv while i was in my high chair being fed gerber's baby-food. my 1st media memory is the animated ogon batto which was on the tellie at the time, and despite shortcomings in its 'art' , was sci-fi in it's core.
by age 4 i was hooked on the 1960's Outer Limits.
by age 5, Ultraman (also sci-fi at it's core).
after these, my love affair with sci fi, especially stuff like War of the Worlds and Day the Earth Stood Still, was set in stone.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 29, 2017 8:28:24 GMT -5
fess up.  when we both hit puberty we both prayed for a Servalan equivalent of 'Mrs. Robinson' ala 'The Graduate'. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 29, 2017 9:34:55 GMT -5
fess up. when we both hit puberty we both prayed for a Servalan equivalent of 'Mrs. Robinson' ala 'The Graduate'. Not me, I'm afraid. I never fancied Servalan. Now, Jenna or Soolin on the other hand...   |
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 29, 2017 9:44:38 GMT -5
fess up. when we both hit puberty we both prayed for a Servalan equivalent of 'Mrs. Robinson' ala 'The Graduate'. Not me, I'm afraid. I never fancied Servalan. Now, Jenna or Soolin on the other hand... lmao, i respect your 'appreciations' albeit so different to my own. it was always Servalan and Dana for me. both nearly cleaned Kerr Avon's clock, lol. |
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jul 29, 2017 14:56:02 GMT -5
fess up. when we both hit puberty we both prayed for a Servalan equivalent of 'Mrs. Robinson' ala 'The Graduate'. Not me, I'm afraid. I never fancied Servalan. Now, Jenna or Soolin on the other hand... Horse-Face Jenna, oh hells no. Servalan rocked MY world. |
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Post by Jesse on Jul 29, 2017 14:59:57 GMT -5
Hard to remember exactly but it was either The Twilight Zone or Star Wars.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 29, 2017 15:52:06 GMT -5
I've really enjoyed reading everyone else's posts in this thread.
It's kind of hard to tell when I became an SF fan, as it seems like I always was into it, but I definitely started reading actual SF (and fantasy) books after I became a comics fan. So I guess my gateway into SF would have to have been Star Trek, as I know I watched reruns of the original series with my older brother when I was really little (and also occasional episodes of Space: 1999, which tended to scare me). I definitely agree that comics readers tend to naturally venture into SF and fantasy.
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