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Already mentioned, but worth mentioning again- Asimov's Foundation series. First read it as an early teen. Re-read it many times since, but haven't picked it up in many years. Strange, that a book about the future could have a profound effect on a kid that never thought further than the day's end, but it did. Couldn't get my hands on enough sci-fi after that. I guess the possibility of what could happen in the future replaced what might have happened in the past, which fantasy books like Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia felt like to me.

Come to think of it, we read Martian Chronicles in seventh grade. I guess that was the first, but not nearly the impact that Foundation had. Does homework count? =)


Just finished Rothfuss' 'The Name of the Wind'. Enjoyed the style and story immensely.


Edited, Jan 15th 2009 2:22am by Trylofer

Wow I was just going to agree with the Starship troopers vote as well. I am in my "late-teens" and I haven't read a fantasy or sci-fi book as interesting as that one.

The concept of the future in that book just grips me, and I have read a lot of political books ie. 1984 and such. I am thinking of reading the cat who walks through walls as I have heard it is good as well.