Well.
If we are talking SF in general, I will have to place the blame firmly on Saturday/Sunday morning.
Local channels back then after a pretty spectacular toon zone with things like Transformers, they would air classic SF movies and series fom the 60's and 70's, like BattleStar Galactica, the original version and Flash Gordon.
I loved them. No I fucking adored them.
If we are talking books then all I can say is that I was a bookworm through and through from age 9? 10?
I would read anything I could get my fucking hands on. ANYTHING.
Fantasy and Science fiction became my bread and butter, immensely assisted by the fact that during that era I could still find dozens of cheap, soft bound SF books from another era.
Isaak Asimov, the Barsoom series,various Raypunk novels, the fucking Proffesor X Blade series, probably the prime Isekai series before Japanese even knew of the term, I devoured everything