One of my oldest memories is my sister taking me to the public library, because I wasn't old enough to read books outside the children's area. But my parents never censored what we read, watched, or listened to, so I was going to get that book. It was Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles", and my first experience of science fiction. No zap guns here, no "Wagon Train to the Stars". Stories about people, and all their yearnings.