Comment by futurecastings on Science Fiction Recommendations · 2011-04-07T18:36:14.617Z · LW · GW

Start with early science fiction.

Read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin from 1921

This book influenced some of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

Here is a good blog post about We: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky20110405

Also read Frankenstein, one of the first science fiction books ever published - 1869

It is a free eBook on Google: http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=2Zc3AAAAYAAJ&dq=we&as_brr=4&printsec=frontcover&output=reader