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Cruise Regular user 175 Posts |
Im a SCIFI freak! Are you? My favorite types of scifi are very wierd. When I say wierd I mean I consider X-files to be rather bland. My favorite scifi show has got to be Lexx even though it is no longer running.
The ultimate scifi show: Twilight Zone! Yeah even still I think it outclasses them all! Looking forward to the Riddick Chronicles to be released soon... Are you a SCIFI freak? What are your favorites?
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
Slaughterhouse 5 is a favorite of mine and I am very partial to time travel movies. I love time travel so much that the ones that I know are really bad, I like anyway.
Twilight Zone was an excellent tv series as was most of Night Gallery. I also enjoyed The Outer Limits and the funky Erwin Allen's Time Tunnel. Steppenwolf is an awsome movie and I am still waiting for Final Countdown to make it on DVD. And before I forget, Stargate was an awsome movie as well, though I have never watched the tv series. Iven
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Cruise Regular user 175 Posts |
Stargate was AWESOME!! I haventseen the series eather but they are making a spinof called STARGATE Atlantis!
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Reg Rozee Special user Vancouver, Canada 592 Posts |
Hmmm, I take it then we aren't talking about any of the really good printed stuff like Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Sturgeon, LeGuin, Phillip K. Dick, etc.? That's too bad—I like TV and film speculative fiction (and I've even worked as an extra in some of it), but very little of it has the quality of what is in print.
-Reg {*}
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
The basic question was the enjoyment of science fiction, so all is game. I tend to agree with your statement about books being better than video but as a non-fiction reader myself, I really am no judge of which is better. There are exceptions of course but books usually are better than movies.
I read so little fiction that I can name pretty much all of the fiction that I have read. A Clockwork Orange Animal Farm 1984 Atlas Shrugged Brave New World The Adventures Of Toby Tyler A Clockwork Orange the book and the movie were equally great. Animal Farm was a very good movie and a great book. 1984 was an excellent book but the movie was just ok. Only my personal opinions, as entertainments and taste is always highly subjective. Iven
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Cruise Regular user 175 Posts |
Books are great!
I really liked A Clock Work Orange too! I read the version with the original ending as opposed to the american version the movie was based from! Great book! 1984 remains one of my favorite all time stories! I have not read Atlas Shrugged but it is on my list as well as Fountain Head. I did read Anthem years ago and it is GREAT! Truth be told Ive not read a lot of scifi. Usually when I read a book its for a different form of entertainment but I LOVED the DUNE series (havent read the last couple though) Reg Rozee- What is the wierdest sci-fi book you've read? Hey it would be cool to find some ideas of material to read!
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Reg Rozee Special user Vancouver, Canada 592 Posts |
All right, now we're talking!
I loved Anthem when I read it first in high school. It is one of those books that can profoundly affect how you think about the world, sort of "wake you up" in some respects. I think one of the weirdest sci-fi novels I have ever read was Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. A very highly rated book by readers, and banned in some school districts at one point because of "questionable religious commentary" I believe. A great read, and very tough to put down. I also think a lot of Spider Robinson's stuff could fall into the "very weird" category. The Callahan's Saloon stories, for example, are about an Irish pub filled with space aliens, time travellers, talking dogs, psychics, ex-hippies, cyborgs, etc. Fun to read, but definitely weird. -Reg {*}
Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it. -Phillip K. Dick
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Cruise Regular user 175 Posts |
I had a friend suggest that I read Cat's Cradle! She knows my tastes pretty well and she told me I would love it! Her favorite author is Vonnegut!
Ok Im going to read that book ***it! I am very busy lately but I will buy it and read it and come back here and say something about it!
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Science Fiction fan here. I put aside Clarke and Asimov and went almost directly to Frank Herbert and Philip K. Dick. Do not pass Borges and go directly to Bruce Sterling. Yes, some of us happened to notice when the story 'Burning Chrome' appeared in OMNI magazine. While the 'pop' side of the culture borrows ideas from UBIK to produce like 'existenZ' and 'thirteenth floor', I wait for someone with some vision to produce 'Neuromancer' or 'The Dosadi Experiment'.
Also goodies to read by Stanislaw Lem and the plays of the Capek brothers. If you can find it, "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatski brothers is quite a story. As is the commentary by some folks in the science fiction community. Another goodie is the Olaf Stapleton story 'First Men, Last Men', or if you feel open minded, 'Star Maker'. Honorable mention to Mary Shelly, writing as anonymous for 'Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus'. And of course the almost operatic work by Ayn Rand, 'Atlas Shrugged' where machines pull energy from the air and a green metal is synthesized that is lighter and stronger than steel. Harlan Ellison anyone? From 'I have no mouth...' to 'Dira', and beyond, we have a career of amazing stories. He even wrote a Star Trek episode. His original script for that episode is in print.
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Cruise Regular user 175 Posts |
OH HEY I AM READING FRANKENSTEIN RIGHT NOW! Almost mentioned it to!
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hitmouse Loyal user 249 Posts |
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On 2004-05-08 08:01, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Wasn't it the episode with Joan Collins as a salvation army officer? |
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