Any book you read at fourteen, skipping lessons to read it, that you can promote as a must read for youth when your sixty four, is a top read. It's not H G Wells The First Men In The Moon being howled down by Jules Verne because the only way to get to the moon is being shot there by a gun, defending his work. This is what I read sci fi for. There is no need for Sir I Asimov to write the foreword. Read this as young as possible.