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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5404939" data-attributes="member: 22779">I was listening to Episode 20 of the SF Signal podcast and they were having a round table discussion about what works hooked the panel into the genre.&nbsp; Not what books they read and thought were great, but that one (or a few) work that really stands out in their heads as being the thing that made them come back to the genre of speculative fiction.I'm going to be a bit selfish here and open things up for the whole genre of spec fiction, not just fantasy, mostly because I am not a particularly big fan of fantasy.&nbsp; I tend to read a lot more SF.&nbsp; So, we'll go with the big umbrella of Speculative Fiction, just cos I say so.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I guess for me, the work that really stands out would be Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series.&nbsp; I read it in third or fourth grade and just devoured it.&nbsp; The idea of this whole world created out of our collective history even today still fires my imagination.&nbsp; So, how about you?&nbsp; What work or small body of works would you point to as &quot;the one&quot; that got you hooked into the genre?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5404939, member: 22779"] I was listening to Episode 20 of the SF Signal podcast and they were having a round table discussion about what works hooked the panel into the genre. Not what books they read and thought were great, but that one (or a few) work that really stands out in their heads as being the thing that made them come back to the genre of speculative fiction. I'm going to be a bit selfish here and open things up for the whole genre of spec fiction, not just fantasy, mostly because I am not a particularly big fan of fantasy. I tend to read a lot more SF. So, we'll go with the big umbrella of Speculative Fiction, just cos I say so. :p I guess for me, the work that really stands out would be Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series. I read it in third or fourth grade and just devoured it. The idea of this whole world created out of our collective history even today still fires my imagination. So, how about you? What work or small body of works would you point to as "the one" that got you hooked into the genre? [/QUOTE]

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