In <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61942.Hamilton" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Hamilton">Hamilton</a>'s <i>The Universe Wreckers</i… - Isaac Asimov

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In <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61942.Hamilton" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Hamilton">Hamilton</a>'s The Universe Wreckers... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4823723.The_Drums_of_Tapajos" rel="nofollow noopener" title="The Drums of Tapajos">The Drums of Tapajos</a>
that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12048865.The_Black_Star_Passes" rel="nofollow noopener" title="The Black Star Passes">The Black Star Passes</a>
and other stories by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4503177.John_W__Campbell" rel="nofollow noopener" title="John W. Campbell">John W. Campbell</a> that I first heard of relativity.

The pleasure of reading about such things in the dramatic and fascinating form of science fiction gave me a push toward science that was irresistible. It was science fiction that made me want to be a scientist strongly enough to eventually make me one.

That is not to say that science fiction stories can be completely trusted as a source of specific knowledge... However, the misguidings of science fiction can be unlearned. Sometimes the unlearning process is not easy, but it is a low price to pay for the gift of fascination over science.