Somewhere on this dirtball, at this exact moment, someone is reading “Starship Troopers” for the first time.
I first read it in the overcab sleeping area of my step-dad’s RV on a very stormy Minnesota night in 1985. I read it from cover to cover by flashlight. I re-read it so many times that when I went to join the Army and the sergeant at the processing station asked me if I wanted to be “MI”, I thought he meant Mobile Infantry. You can imagine my disappointment.
What was your first ‘adult’ science fiction? Any good stories of how you discovered it?
DaddyBear’s Den 
North
/ June 27, 20111984 – which I read in… OK years earlier.
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North
/ June 27, 2011Or do you mean more 'adult' than that?
Hmmmm. I've lost track.
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Ruth
/ June 27, 2011oh gosh, I've no idea. I was reading my dad's collection of Heinlein and Asimov as soon as I could understand the words. And if my dad wouldn't hand it to me then I'd steal it off the shelf next opportunity. Even at a young age I was an avid reader!
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Shepherd K
/ June 27, 2011I read The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings back in 7TH or 8TH grade. Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (at the time) was the first “real” SciFi that I read. I can't remember exactly when I came across Heinlein and Starship Troopers, but I know it was in High School. I read ST so many times, the paperback finally fell apart.
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Old NFO
/ June 27, 2011Foundation and Empire, probably around 1960… From Asimov, to Heinlein, to Norton, and all the rest.
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North
/ June 27, 2011It was about the 4th grade when I read 1984. I was bored and found the book in the family library.
My imagination was sparked well before this book, but this was my first exposure to a dystopian future.
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MrG's
/ June 27, 2011bolo, “the honor of the regiment” I also read Starship trooper. I like the restrictions on voting. It would cut out a lot of the problems
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Christina LMT
/ June 28, 2011Very first SF was “Thousandstar” by Piers Anthony, stolen, I mean BORROWED, from my older brother's bookshelf. I never looked back.
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