Harry Lime mentioned being 9 yrs old when he got into Sci Fi but I'll have to tell you, that's nothing. I was introduced to it when Star Trek first came on he Air in 1968. It helped that Dad was involved in the Space Program while in the Marines are one of the crew on the Recovery Helicopters. His was the one responsible for the recovery of the capsule from Apollo 6 that splashed down a mear half mile from the Recovery Carrier. Unmaned launch but still important to the entire program.
After he was Transferred to LTA Tustin, California, we followed once school was out that summer and I've considered the state to be home since. One thing that moved me into the Bookworm stage was all of the monthly magazines such as FS&F, Analog, Asimov, Galaxy and a bunch of others that I started reading with dad.
My reading expanded into Tom Swift, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew - solid stories for young readers and then I discovered Frank Herbert, Asimov's "Foundation" and we can't forget Heinlein or Clarke can we. All of the old masters who wrote solid stories with some trappings of impossible such as Space Travel, Robots and such. Most of them were hopeful at the time. Even Star Wars is a Western with Space as the place instead of cutting them off at the western pass. Same as many of the plots we say with John Wayne in their westerns. So it seems I tend to be a bit forgiving on an authors spelling it's because a solid plot that engages me is more important then having the right word all the time.