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What book first introduced you to Sci-Fi or Fantasy books?

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What book first introduced you to Sci-Fi and/or Fantasy and made you fall in love with the entire genre?

Mine were the Tom Swift Jr. books. I inherated them from my father and fell in love with all of them. Going back and reading them now as an adult shows how poorly they have aged, but they still get the credit for developing my love for the genre.
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The Hobbit when I was about ten or eleven. Blew my tiny little mind!
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It was also the Hobbit for me as well. I didn't think I was going to like it, but my fiancé urged me to give it a try and I loved it. I'm still not a big sci-fi or fantasy fan, but that was awesome. I read The Giver by Lois Lowery in college, as it was recommended to me by someone who was going into mid level education. That was pretty good, but I don't generally choose that genre when deciding how I will spend my time reading.
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Probably the collection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. My dad used to read those to me along with the Iliad and the odyssey, 1001 Arabian Nights and the original Just So stories of Rudyard Kipling. Those count as fantasy don't they? (I think many children are certified fantasy junkies) If children's stories don't count, I would say Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I don't remember how old I was, but I remember not understanding all of it and having to ask my dad what certain words meant.
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I sort of went a different way. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Definitely the Hobbit and the Lord of The Rings. I must have read that series like 3 times in 6th grade!
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The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Dune which I read in 8th grade.
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I think vampire diaries series was what really got me into sci-fi fantasy, but now I can't put them down....
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My first book was a book my Dad was reading. I was just fascinated by the cover as I had never seen anything that looked like the monster on the cover. I thought it was so cool. The book was a Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony. That book turned out to be just awesome for a young kid. It triggered my love for reading fantasy and I have been reading it ever since.
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The Hobbit was probably my first taste of fantasy, and I was 10. Luckily, I had an amazing teacher that read it to us as we worked on an art project at the end of each day. Otherwise I never would have read it. It was wonderful, and I think the whole class was hooked.
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Also Hobbit for me! I was 7.

My name is from a Tolkien book so I was doomed from the start though. :)
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Kelley Armstrong Women of the Other world series!

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I have never read The Hobbit, and apparently I have been missing out! I guess I better get to it and buy the book! You guys have won me over...I am officially a bad reader lol How can I be a professional reader and reviewer if I haven't read the classics.
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Void wrote:Probably the collection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. My dad used to read those to me along with the Iliad and the odyssey, 1001 Arabian Nights and the original Just So stories of Rudyard Kipling. Those count as fantasy don't they? (I think many children are certified fantasy junkies) If children's stories don't count, I would say Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I don't remember how old I was, but I remember not understanding all of it and having to ask my dad what certain words meant.
I agree--the titles you mentioned are indeed fantasy. I read most of them in elementary and middle school, and I've always considered myself a fan of fantasy and science fiction.
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The series that got me into sci-fi, and reading in general, was Animorphs by K.A. Applegate. It was actually made into a tv series for a while. I thought it was the best thing ever written, the series is still one of my favorites. If you haven't read it, it's about an alien that crash kands on Earth and gives 5 teenagers alien technology that allows them to morph into any animal they can touch so they can fight another race of aliens that are trying to silently take over Earth and enslave the human race. Another series that I really loved in the fantasy genre was the Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix. The storyline was captivating and it spoke about classism and how to be brave in a simple, but really fantastic way. The two main characters are radically different and they want different things, but they find a way to come together and compromise so that they both win. It takes place in a world where the clouds cover the sky and the Earth is overtaken by cold and ice. Some people live in the darkness on the ice and others live in the seven towerals, each tower assigned according to your class.
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I loved the Animorphs books. I think I was 10 or 11 when the series first came out, so I had already been reading fantasy & sci-fi, but I remember ordering the new ones from the Scholastic Book Order ever month and being so excited for them. :)
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