[Kamakhya]

Well, I think it's about time I chimed in too! I'm 35 and live in California. I was raised in a Sci-Fi household. My father is a future historian and an expert on H.G. Wells. Of his four children, three of us are die-hard Sci-Fi fans. I can't tell you what the first books I read were; but I vividly remember my father reading each and every one of the Wizard of Oz books (after Raggedy Ann and Andy) and then Alice in Wonderland to me.

As soon as I could read on my own, I pestered my brothers for recommendations and read Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein and Bradbury. During puberty, I got into really bad horror novels. Then I read fantasy novels for a short while (as well as more Sci-Fi). In my early to mid twenties, I got into magick and mysticism, including Hindu Tantra (hence my name). Despite being into things arcane, I went back to my first true love http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif Science Fiction a couple of years back.

Whew....probably far more than any of you needed to know! http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Kamakhya


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[Hawklan]

Ntschotschi:
Actually I haven't seen the show myself. There was an episode or two aired on swedish television in the early seventies, I think.

I've read the books over and over and over again. And in my mind, together with the bookcovers, I could imagine how it all would look like on film. I daydreamed that someday someone would discover this wonderful adventure in USA and make it into a movie or something. I remember having a crush on Tamara Jagelovsk - the security officer. And I wanted to be Cliff Allistair McLane so badly http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif
One day after getting internet I searched for Raumschiff ORION and found a few sites. Boy, was I surprised when I discovered that nothing looked like I had imagined it. Maybe a bit disappointed as well. It looked very much the sixties. Maybe because it was made back then http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[saintjon]

I don't think I've introduced myself, though I've been around for quite awhile. My name's Jon Peplinski and I'm currently living in Ottawa. My tastes and likes and reasons for reading fantasy have been told at length in other threads. Lately I like to think of life as an adventure (every time I step out the door it's like another adventure), makes things more fun when you look at it that way. The past eight months or so I've been having adventures of all sorts in Ottawa. I've battled evil bus-drivers and tasted foods from all different cultures to name a few! Sorry I took so long to post here, but whatever!

[LePeze]

I'm Pieter and I'm 18 years old(almost 19)and from Belgium(Flanders). I began reading fantasy in dutch when I was approximately 8 years old.

When I was 13 I stopped reading(dunno why, probably because I spent too much time with my friends). The book that made me read again was Frank Herberts 'Dune'(I had to read something for school). After the first Dune, I read the other 5 of the series and since then I never stopped reading(too bad that Frank Herberts son has f****d up the Dune universe).

One day a friend recommended LoTR and since then I have read every good fantasybook I could lay my hands on.

[lanya]

Well Im a new member here, but reading all these posts, Im among the oldest in age at 42.Im a mother of three and a neonatal nurse living in texas. First book that got me started is too long ago to remember because I was in the wonderful position of having a father that gave the joy of reading to all his kids along with the best gift of all--a library card when we were old enough to reach the shelves. Have read just about everything that has already been posted and favorites have to be Tolkien(of course), Feist(Magician, his best)Heinlein, Hebert,
and the earliest introduction to fantasy ever-- Dr Suess.

[jfclark]

Well, I'm a 27-year-old attorney in Boston. I first read Tolkien when I was in elementary school, but apart from him, the only fantasy authors I read as a kid wereC.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander and Madeleine L'Engle.

In college, though, I picked up David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Tad Williams, and a few others. Law school saw me discover Robert Jordan, and now I think I've finally grown up. Recent favorites include Gene Wolfe, Charles Finney, Lord Dunsany, Ernest Bramah, George R.R. Martin and Guy Gavriel Kay. Corporate law practice has practically driven me into fanstasy as a hobby, but I'm smart enough to count that among my blessings.

[Llama]

Ah, another lawyer. And also one with taste. Excellent!

[Flammenweber]

Hi,

just a few days not on the board and now I see such a huge thread.

My name is Dennis, I'm from Germany/Lower Saxony and I've got to say that we've got very good beer here, too (not only in Bavaria;-), actually I'm doing my studies in business economics and I'm 23...

I came to this board because Ntschotschi gave me the hint (on a german fantasy board) that there's a very good board in english - well, and and here I am.

First of all, I do know Hohlbein, which german reader who is interested in fantasy doesn't know him :-)? I think, that he wrote several good books but at least as many books which are not very skillful and btw his books were my first contact to the fantasy... After many books of him I read LOTR and The Hobbit, a little bit later Feist's Magician...and after that many more just "fantastic" books - that's it for the moment...

[Alle]

I suppose I should post here since I have never introduced myself. I have lurked here off and on for almost 2 years! Then, I realized I had never registered, so I did so a few weeks ago.

Anyway, I am a long time fantasy buff and would be author from Oahu, Hawaii, and I first delved into fantasy when I stole my brother's copy of The Hobbit at age 10. I am always looking for new and different authors to try, while working on my first full-length novel.

This is a very nice site, and I am glad to (officially) have joined it. *s*

Alle

[Richard]

Hello!

Just adding my 2 cents.

Richard, 40, born in Chicagoland now living in the south. First read Andre Norton's Storm Over Warlock, Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness, and the John Carter series by E.R. Burroughs. An author myself. Dr. Who and Star Trek fan.

I enjoy Glen Cook, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Harry Turtledove, L.Sprague de Camp, and Jennifer Roberson.