Close second would be reading these big "scary stories" collections I got from the library while camping in our family's tent trailer. First time reading Ray Bradbury (Homecoming) and Theodore Sturgeon (It!). Reading by flashlight or Coleman lantern in the tent trailer.

Buying Perdido Street Station in White Dwarf Books in Vancouver, wishing it wasn't so far to get home so I could read it… Burning Chrome, the first page of Johnny Mnemonic in the Coles, 13 years old and having my brain set on fire and forever changed…