Science Fiction

“just finished the aeon flux dvd's. i thought they were amazing. what are some of your favorite science fiction movies, books, stories, television, whatever? star wars doesnt count (great stuff, but not true science fiction). true sci-fi is thought-provoking and often deals with larger issues. of course i liked the matrix. even tho its not real hard-core sci-fi, i include it here. ive read a couple of isaac asimov stories, including bicentennial man, that i thought were amazing. one of my favorite short stories by a different author is "the phantom of kansas". star trek and the twilight zone are classics. i loved the george clooney "solaris". earth 2 was a too-short-lived tv series. thats just off the top of my head. im sure ill think of more later. what are yours?”

“Not sure if it counts as sci-fi, but my favorite would have to be the first Alien movie. I liked the Terminator series too.

Blade Runner is another good one that comes to mind.

I used to read a lot of Ray Bradbury when I was much younger, but don't recall any of the stories other than the one where a guy allows a doctor (an alien?) to remove his skeleton.”

“The Twilight Zone was a fav of mine as a kid! How about Lost in Space....Danger Will Robinson!!”

“My favorite are Diana Galbadon's novels of time travel. I look forward to each new one like it's a rare gift. I just got number six.”

“Movies

Forbidden Planet. A 1956 movie had one of the best plot lines amid plenty of action.

Star Wars. Best Sci-Fi action movies ever made.

Minority Report. A complex plot one could follow.

The Final Countdown. there is something appealing about the idea of a modern-day aircraft carrier being sent back to Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941.

Planet of the Apes. The author of the book also wrote, Bridge Over the River Kwai.

The Time Machine. H.G. Wells predicted WWI, WWII, and nuclear bombs.

Star Gate.


Televison

Star Trek, and all the spin offs.

Star Gate SG1


Literature

Dune by Frank Herbert. Read the book, skip the movie.

The Beserker Series by Fred Saberhagen

I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov

Princess of Mars (1917) by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the entire John Carter of Mars series. How a Chicago native born in 1875 could write such good science fiction so long ago amazes me. The author also wrote the Tarzan series.”

“Orson Scott Card's Enders game series is awesome too.”

“Buck Rogers comic strips.
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“Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
most stuff on the sci-fi channel...
Star Trek (back when you didn't admit you watched it)
Lost in Space...”

“Book: Snow Crash by Neal Stevenson

Movie: Star Trek First Contact, The 5th Element, Starship Troopers (I hate bugs)”

“Herbert
Card
Heinlein

Very very few SF movies are even close to being as good as a book.”

“My favorite science fiction is Intelligent Design theory.

(someone had to say it)”

“My all time favorite author of science fiction is Stanislaw Lem (The Cyberiad, Memiors Found in a Bathtub, Solaris, Fiasco, Mortal Engines, Peace on Earth, Tales of Pirx the Pilot, The Futurologica Congress, The Star Diaries, His Masters Voice, The Chain of Chance, Return to the Stars, etc, etc). These are seriously good books, not just great science fiction but just plain great prose. Highly, highly recommended. If you want a few books to start with let me know.

What's stunning to me is that his books are written in Polish and translated to English. Much of his writing involves play on words (their meaning, etc) and the fact that these translate so well into English blows my mind. That is to say that the books are so well written and the translations so well done it's hard to believe.”

“How about Scientology? They had a movie.”

“Forgot Niven, but he hasn't wrote anything really good in years.”

“True, most of Niven's better work is in the past. I haven't read Ringworld's Children, or whatever his latest Ringworld novel is called. I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback. The Ringworld Throne wasn't really all that great, although I read it fast. I should probably give it another read.”

“The Ringworld series sucked after the Engineers book. I've read nothing but negative reviews on the latest installment, so I'm not even going to bother to read it. Niven = hasbeen.”

“my favorite one is about that geek who went off and found some other geeks and they all sat around in a geek circle and geeked each other off

just kiddin guys, it's a joke...what's that behind your back...wait...no...no, please don't shoot me with your ray gun”

“Azimov- Do I really have to say any more?

Heinlein- I particularly like how everything "fits". Also, for the love of God read Starship Troopers don't just see the hacked up movie version.

Bradbury- Ray had a impact on me. As a young boy I once wrecked my bike into the front steps of the Bradbury birthplace in Waukegan, Il. That hurt.

Clarke- Particularly the Rama series”

“Heinlein- I particularly like how everything "fits". -HPM

Yea, his Future History was well mapped out.
I used to collect Heinlein in paperback. I had damn near everything he put out. I collected from the 60s to his death. The flood ruined all of them. Many can not ever be replaced as they are long out of print.”

“Movies:

-Andromeda Strain (70's)
-Terminator series
-Original 3 Star Wars movies

Books:

-Xanth series for the first 8 or so books, after that it gets boring; by Piers Anthony. This series got me started on Science Fiction when I was in Middle School.
-Saga of Pliocene Exile series by Julian May. Very well written.\
-2001 A Space Odyssey, etc.”

“I always considered Xanth to be Fantasy rather than SF.
For the longest time I wouldn't read Fantasy, but in the last five or six years I've read quite a bit of it.”

“So many times I see fantasy characteristics in sci-fi stories, and vice-versa, so I tend to lump them together. I guess technically it is a seperate category.

Definitely check out the Pliocene series (sci-fi, not fantasy) if you haven't yet.”

“I like my SF to be based on science.”

“StoveStomper: READ LEM!!! Get The Cyberiad.”

“I read a lot of alternate history now, but most of that cannot be lumped into science fiction.

Anybody read Turtledove?”

“alternate history

Perhaps one of the best ever, IMHO, was The Man in the High Castle (Philip K Dick).
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“Turtledove - He11 yea! Not exactly SF so I didn't speak of it.”

“Ursula K. LeGuin (The Lathe of Heaven, The Eye of the Heron)

Joanna Russ (The Female Man, The Adventures of Alyx)

just to name a few.”

“http://www.lem.pl/english/main.htm

interesting....”

“Yeah, he is my kind of guy. I have read his stuff since high school, most of his books 3-4 times.”

“I also thought the flux animations were awesome.

For movies, I enjoy a lot: Matrix, 12 monkeys (this is where I realized Bruce Willis can act), total recall, Alien... I know there were others.

For books, I like a lot of people already mentioned, Herbert, Clarke, Asimov. Heinlen.

I've also really enjoyed Robert Anton Wilson and Olaf Stapleton - they both make you think a lot.

I was going to add Lovecraft and Leguin, but I guess they are more horror and fantasy (respectively).”

“I find it hard to believe a live-action Aeon Flux movie will be any good. They had better not screw it up.”

“The 5th Element with Bruce Willis.”

“I love that movie! The DVD kicks azz!”

“The Day the Earth Stood Still





Klaatu Barada Nikto

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“Some of Turtledove's alternate history could be classed as sci-fi. The Guns of the South has a time machine in it, and the Worldwar series has invading aliens. But his other "what if the South won the Civil War" series has no sci-fi element at all.”

“5th Element was really good, as was Total Recall and 12 Monkeys.

I used to read a lot of fantasy books, like Anne McCafferty's stuff, The Dragon Riders of Pern”

“Oooo, I forgot about that series, twig. I was an avid reader of Anne's Dragon books for many years. Drifted off to other things eventually. Like the Xanth series, I think it was written to death.”

“I like SciFi from the 30's and 40's, one of my favorites is the Lensman Series by E.E. "Doc" Smith.”

“Serenity


BTW, want to know what sci fi crew you should be part of? http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=111863

Says I should be part of Serenity crew.

You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and donâ??t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.

Serenity (Firefly)

81%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)

69%

Moya (Farscape)

69%

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

69%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)

69%

SG-1 (Stargate)

69%

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)

63%

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)

63%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)

50%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)

44%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)

44%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)

31%
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“The Beserker Series by Fred Saberhagen is awesome!

Gateway Series by Pohl
Everything by Asimov

and of course.......................................

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“asimov?!?! could you please explain in an in-depth, 300 page objective analysis with footnotes and pictures and everything, with references to modern art and literature, taking into account new criticism of the parameters of writing in the 20th and 19th centuries, why isaac asimov is a better science fiction writer than ayn rand. make sure to include your thesis, at least 20 supporting points, and your conclusion. and it better make sense //satire font off//”

“I miss Babylon 5. That show was the best.”

“Ziggy Stardust................”

“Hell, if Ziggy Stardust qualifies, then the Aquabats do too.”

“...even the Icebats............”

“ You scored as Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix). You can change the world around you. You have a strong will and a high technical aptitude. Is it possible you are the one? Now if only Agent Smith would quit beating up your friends.

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)

81%

SG-1 (Stargate)

69%

Moya (Farscape)

69%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)

63%

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)

63%

Serenity (Firefly)

63%

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

56%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)

56%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)

44%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)

44%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)

31%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)

25%
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“Ayn Rand is overblown, self important, boorish and puts me to sleep in three pages.

Asimov does not.

///fact font off”

“ You scored as Millennium Falcon (Star Wars). The world around you is at war. Fortunately you know how to handle that with the greatest of ease. You are one of the best at what you do and no one needs to tell you that. Now if only the droids could be quiet for five seconds.

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)

81%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)

75%

Serenity (Firefly)

75%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)

75%

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)

63%

SG-1 (Stargate)

63%

Moya (Farscape)

56%

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

56%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)

56%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)

44%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)

44%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)

38%
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“LMAO!

As a final word I would say Asimov makes really Neat-O Worlds and Rand does not.

And His Robots Rawk!”