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Do you like Sci Fi?

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Do you like Sci Fi? If so, what genre? Stories relating to planetary colonization? A.I.? Time Travel? The reason I ask is that after a discussion with a friend recently, we came to the conclusion that individuals (at least most of our friends) who are into computers are also into science fiction.

Personally, I like time travel, space travel, computer/robotic/a.i. stories. One of the best artificial intelligence stories I've EVER read is "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" by James P. Hogan. If you have a chance and run across it, give it a read. I think you'll really like it. And let's not forget Star Trek and Star Wars. :CONGRAT:
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
(The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever)

Another classic set of trilogies. Got'em all. Always wanted to wake up in the "Land" one day.
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There are some great tv and movie sci-fi around that don't get a big mention. So aside from the obvious stuff, some favourites of mine include

Firefly, a fantastic series that i'd never have believed could be so good when you found out it was about cowboys in space. I think it was the same team who did Buffy that were behind that one. it got cancelled after its first season. Big shame as it was great sci-fi but I believe there is a movie on the horizon now so who knows, might get a season 2 after all.

In movie land, my favourite by far is an unknown flick called Primer. It's essentially a time travel movie but has to be the most convincing portayal of time travel ever. It's so realistic that you can't help being sucked into the complex plot and be hit by how profound the idea of time travel is all over again. Asimov would have been proud of it I'm sure.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've become addicted to Star Trek lately (after we bought the first seasons of TNG). Am now eagerly awaiting season 4 to arrive in the mailbox . I think the message and ideology behind the whole series is great (even, or especially these days).

I've been reading scifi since I was a kid. I've always liked Heinlein, Asimov and even Arthur C. Clarke + a whole host of other great authors.

My all time favorite series is the "Ender" saga by Orson Scott Card.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I never could really get into Heinlein, Herbert or some of the other 'deep' authors. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking their work, I've been around the genre enough to know they're some of the sci fi's elite. But I guess I like my sci fi to be like a good summer movie, in the popcorn vein. Ya know, a page turning, can't put it down, gonna be late, what's gonna happen next kinda story.

With Asimov, any and all of the robot stories.

A. C. Clarke is out there on the deep end but some of his books have captured my imagination. One in particular, Childhood's End was both exciting and haunting at the same time. Actually thoght about trying to read it again (if I can find the time).

And I would love to read James P. Hogan's The Two Faces of Tomorrow again, for the sixth time.
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeap you've conlcuded to a very true for the most part of it conclusion. Sci-Fi is art! From books to movies. I like most of them,but not all of them.

Loved: The Matrix,The Lord Of The Rings,I-Robot,AI,Paycheck,many more i can't remember...
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How about the first thought provoking movie...The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Space 1999
U.F.O
Lost in Space
Dark Skies
Battlestar Galactica - Original
Buck Rogers in the 25th century
Dr Who
Starman - The Series

To name a few that I grew up with.. Probably forgot more than I listed, LoL..ring any bells??
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The Omega Man-

the one with the vampirish people.
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Earth 2
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Journey to the Center of the Moon.
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The Day The Earth Stood Still


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Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Earth 2



I really liked it, but it suddenly disappeared from the network airing it and I never got to see the end of the second series....what a bummer....don't know if there were any more after that and I'm yet to see it available here in OZ on video or DVD.

Isn't that always the way...complain bitterly about neverending repeats on TV, and then, when you really want one......
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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Thats definitely top requirements for my movie prefs. (Well, alongside a good plot.) *sigh*...I love surround sound.

There are some "no way"s but for the most part, if its sci-fi, I like it. But...people, people...no one has mentioned Tron. I wouldnt be surprised to see a remake of that.
Reply #39 from JoeUser Forums Top
I love the Sci-Fi channel, my husband HATES it.

I don't like too read it often, I do like to read Salvatore, and others . I know that is Fantasy but sometimes they go so well together!
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
.I love surround sound



Yep...ditto to that, trilogy, is there any other way? I have 5.1 surround on my puter as well as my hi.fi and DVD players, so I hear nothing else these days....thundering How else would you view sci.fi, unless immersed in wall to wall sound....vibrations to parallel the lift off of a klingon battle cruiser

Glad to see your mention of 'Tron', one of my favourites, and I like Jeff Bridges as an actor.....a remake would be fantastic if it remained fairly true to the original but with a quality soundtrack.

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anyone else not see #39??? Anyhow...


starkers wrote: How else would you view sci.fi, unless immersed in wall to wall sound....vibrations to parallel the lift off of a klingon battle cruiser


There is no other favorable way When I'm watching a movie away from home or the theater, I still think about the surround sound experience and how its missing...even for a brief second


Alright, a Tron fan! Thanks starkers, I dont feel like I'm in left field anymore Without hijacking a sci-fi thread, I'll just say that I would 'second' your remake opinion.
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Watching some of these on my HDTV in DD 5.1 almost makes you feel like your right in the middle of the battle.
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Aliens...and vampires.
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"V" The Mini-"Movie"-series ...

More from TV,
Roswell
X-Files
More to come, LoL

Hey, anybody remember "My Favorite Martian?" Sci-Fi Sit coms, LoL Like Mork & Mindy, A.L.F and 3rd rock from the sun...
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The Predator craft left today. The weather must be cooling off.
Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm a big Sci-Fi fan. While Asimov, Dick, Clarke, Vonnegut are all great, and I enjoy their work, I prefer newer stuff these days. Favorite authors include William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, and John Wright, who wrote the awesome Golden Age trilogy. Spider Robinson writes fantastic time travel stuff, and John Shirley...and...well, there's plenty of talent out there.

I've always enjoyed Sci-Fi tv and movies too, but nothing beats an epic book or series of books, IMO.



I don't see #39
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
39? Yautja got 'em.
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Harlan Ellison for one of the great early writers. Always had an odd take on things which I liked. One of his books made a pretty decent movie 'A Boy and his Dog'. He wrote the original stories for a lot of SciFi shows and movies.

Roger Zelazny was pretty good, although he tended a bit more toward fantasy.

I watch all the Star Treks and like them. Liked all the Star Wars movies.