SciFi Giveaway Saturday
I have a few SciFi books to give away right now, so I thought I might institute SciFi Giveaway Saturday — on a strictly ad hoc basis — until they’re gone.
But to be in to win you have to participate: each time I run this you’ll have to answer a question to enter. 😉
Today the book for giveaway is Philip Mann’s The Disestablishment Of Paradise (Gollancz) and the question is:
“What book first got you into reading science fiction?”
For me, it was Robert Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer, first read at around age 13.
Just comment with your answer anytime up until midnight, Friday 25 October (NZ time.) I’ll announce the result next Saturday 26th, with the draw (assuming there’s more than one comment) being made by means of Random.Org
Fully international, as always!
I think one of my first sci fi books was “The Green Futures of Tycho” by William Sleator 🙂 I LOVED it and I’ve been a huge fan of sci fi ever since 🙂
I don’t know this one, so must check it out!
Anne McCaffrey’s DragonFlight! My mother had it on her book shelf (how that happened I’ll never know as she was strictly a crime and literary fiction reader) and it totally captivated me. for the first time it struck me that books can take you to a whole different world (e.g. not just our one subtly transformed) which intellectually you know is not real but which feels so real you can’t believe it doesn’t exist
Not my first, but definitely an early love.:)
Of course, some of you will debate whether DragonFlight ‘qualifies’ as sci-fi 🙂
Space travel, world threatening dangers between planets–it may be fantastic space opera, but it’s still SF in my book!
For me it was a Heinlein also – I remember well getting “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” out of the library on my Dad’s recommendation and loving it when I was maybe 10 years old. Been hooked ever since 🙂
I missed that one but have heard it’s a great kids’ story.:)
I think it might have been an old copy of Analog, sitting round at home, but I can’t be sure, because I grew up reading SF from an oddly young age.
I think it must have been Ender´s game by Orson Scott Card 🙂 PS. Nice giveaway 😛
A classic! And you are welcome re the giveaway; there will be more to come as well.
It was a comic series: Yoko Tsuno. I read the album The Three Suns of Vinea when I was probably too young For it, but the blue skinned aliens, the spaceships and other SciFi elements captured my imgination right away. I collected the entire series and reread it regularly.
Sounds great: another one to check out as the TBR pile allows. 😉