What work was it that revealed to you that SF is your cup of tea?
Many people never get bitten by the bug, and cannot grok why we like "puerile nonsense".
They might, in a Venn diagram, overlap with the people who don't like thinking.
Me:
Jules Verne :
all of it.
Rider Haggard:
not SF but curiosity encouraging.
John Brunner:
Stand on Zanzibar. Just ... words fail. So damn good. Nostalgia could be playing a part, but hell's teeth it's good. After reading this I knew that SF was going to be my special friend.
(Many years' reading elided)
S R Donaldson:
Covenant I read from a feeling of (shrugs shoulders) that shop sells it for pennies.
Later -
Gap Sequence. One of my very favourite, over-the-top, leave-common-sense-behind, it won't help here, barking delightful excursions. More meat than Dune. More Laughs than Asimov.
Doris Lessing:
Canopus in Argo (a constellation of somewhat connected novels).
When I read Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 & 5 I didn't know Doris from Adolf. Enjoyed the book, mostly because of the stuff about overlapping worlds. Didn't know that it was part of a sequence. I'm not gay and I'm not feminist. There are other reasons to rate her SF high.
Nobody:
Nobody I'm aware of has written anything really good lately.
I could list many recent novels, but you already know them, and you know that they are uninspiring. (I vacillated between "crap" and "shit" before thinking of "uninspiring").
So, friend, how did you get into SF?