My First SF Book
Introduction
My first SF book that I owned and read was The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Summary
My book is a reprint that promoted the 1975 movie of the same name. Burroughs wrote three short novels that were published in Blue Book Magazine in 1918. The stories were The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forget, and Out of Time’s Abyss. All three are included in this edition and added up to a total of 249 pages. I believe that I got it sometime in 1977, about 40 years ago. This was the first novel that I had ever read for fun and it started me on the path to making reading a part of my daily routine. Soon after that, I subscribed to Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, as it was known back then. Then, I enrolled in the Science Fiction Book Club and had all the books that I wanted.
Recommendation
My First SF Book is a fun quickly-paced science fiction/fantasy adventure story. It has the lost world theme and an interesting method of alternative evolution included in this world. It is just the perfect story for that pre-teen boy to pick up.
I watched the movie many years later. There are six black and white stills from the movie included in this edition. I remember the plesiosaur and the pterodactyl the most, pictured below.
Links
This is the link to the Goodreads page of The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13552142-the-land-that-time-forgot
Goodreads is a website where you can review books that you have read and you can also put books on a to-read list. Using Goodreads has changed how and what I read. Using Goodreads got me thinking about My first SF book that I owned, The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This is the link to a post I made about using Goodreads.