What was the first scifi/fantasy book you ever read?

[Kevin]

My first SFF book was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 3rd grade given to me by a neighbor because he was moving away. Then I read the Golden Compass and Redwall a year later.

[Gaines]

Mine was A Spell for Chameleon and I was twelve. Loved it.

[Alex]

I have no idea what the first book was, but the first book to truly blow my mind was Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark. I've tried to revisit it a few times as a grownup (am I really a grownup?) and haven't been able to finish it.

[Asher]

A Mote in God's Eye, to me, has always been an excellent read. It was well thought out, the dynamics of the alien species well thought out, too.

[Asher]

My first would have been Narnia books. I remember those were just laying around the house.

[Michael]

Fantasy, Narnia I think.
Science fiction... I think it might have been Live Free or Die by John Ringo. If anyone likes military science fiction, check John Ringo out, you will not be disappointed!

[David]

The first fantasy style book I read was most likely The Hobbit by Tolkien because it was very popular around the household I lived in.

The first science-fiction books I remember reading were from The Foundation Serie, by Azimov, and I was quite hooked on them.

[Anna]

Just now at the age of 25 I really enjoy sci-fi. My first book was Collective Mind. I'm not sure that it's fantasy or sci-fi, for me it's our nearest reality in some way.
So as others recommend me I'll try Lady Midnight as my second book.

[Becca]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was my first scifi novel. The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Prydain are the first fantasy books I remember reading.

[Sharon]

I don't actually know for sure, but I remember reading more than one anthology of Greek and Roman mythology, which would probably qualify as fantasy. For sci-fi, probably one of the Jules Verne books.

[Eli]

Rocket Ship Galileo by the master, Robert A. Heinlein.

Prior to Galileo, I had mostly read biographies and such. Then, one fateful day when I was 9 or 10, I stumbled across Heinlein and never went back. By age 12, I had read all of his works, even the ones not appropriate to a 12 year old, and had branched into Fantasy with Robert Asprin. Soon, I discovered Xanth and went down the Piers Anthony rabbit hole. When I actually receive a reply from a letter I wrote him with a short story, it was one of the high points of my youth.