Sci fi...love or hate?

[lonelysmile]

love it! There are aspects of Sci Fi that I haven't dabbled in, but I know all the words to the original Star Wars movies! I've also read way more of the books than I care to admit. I'm more along the SciFi/Fantasy lines although I know plenty of Sci Fi fans who are hateful that Fantasy gets lumped in there haha

 

[midwestyankee]

Love sci fi but... there are words to the Star Wars theme? Huh?

My absolute favorite sci fi author is Philip K. Dick, without a doubt.

Yes:

[Close Encounters of the Droid Kind]
You must use the force (repeat ad nauseum)

[Raiders of the Lost Wookiee]
Long time ago, far far away (repeat)

Kiss a wookie, kick a droid
Fly the falcon through an asteroid
Till the princess is annoyed
This is spaceships, it's monsters, it's Star Wars, we love it!

Come and help me, Obi-Wan
X-wing fighter and a blaster gun
Dance with Ewoks, oh what fun!
This is spaceships, it's monsters, it's Star Wars, we love it!

[Super Han]
Get in there you big, furry oaf
I couldn't care less what you smell
I take orders from only me
Maybe you'd like it back in your cell
Your Highness, your worshipfulness, your highness, your worshipfulness

No one cares if you upset a droid
(nobody cares if you upset a droid)
That's because droids don't tear your arms out of socket.
(nobody cares)
I suggest a new strategy: let the Wookie win
That's because nobody cares if you upset a droid.

[ET the DiscoTerrestrial]
Now we listen to Luke whining:
One more season... One more season... One more season... One more season...

I was gonna go to Tosche Station for power converters
Now I guess I'm going nowhere.
It just isn't fair.

[Jaws: the Wookiee]
Woooooookiee (repeat)

Someone move this walking carpet (repeat)

Kiss your brother, Kiss your brother (repeat)

Princess Leia
Well I guess you don't know anything about women.

Who's your daddy? (repeat)

[Jurassic Darth]
Luke, I'm your father
(That's not true!)
It is useless to resist
(My hand!)
Come with me my son, We will rule
(I'll never join you!)
Search your feelings it is true

So you have a twin sister
Who Obi-Wan was wise to hide
(Is that Leia?)
If you will not turn
Then perhaps she will
Give in to your hate
You are mine

Long Long Long Time ago... Far Far Far Far Away

Long Long Long Time Ago, Far Far Far Away (repeat)

Kiss a wookie
Kick a droid
Fly the falcon
Through an asteroid
Till the princess is annoyed
(She's annoyed!)
This is spaceships, it's monsters, it's Star Wars, we love it, it's true

Episode 3
Coming to you
In 2005

So Let's go
(go go go to the movies)
Stand in line
(buy buy buy me some popcorn)
Cause it's al-
(please I'd like extra butter)
most the time
(Join the dark side...)
May the Force be with you all

John Williams is the man

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[midwestyankee]

I was a rabid devourer of all things sci-fi as a kid but I sort of grew away from it over time. That said, one of my favorite teaching experiences was a semester of teaching literature of science fiction to high schoolers.

 

[Keroin]

I was a rabid devourer of all things sci-fi as a kid but I sort of grew away from it over time. That said, one of my favorite teaching experiences was a semester of teaching literature of science fiction to high schoolers.

Oh yeah. My junior high was pretty liberal...yay, hippies...so although everyone had to do a basic level English course, (101, 201, 301), we could choose our other courses from a list of specifics such as Sci fi, Horror, Poetry, etc, etc.

Naturally I chose Sci fi & Horror! FUN!

 

[midwestyankee]

Oh yeah. My junior high was pretty liberal...yay, hippies...so although everyone had to do a basic level English course, (101, 201, 301), we could choose our other courses from a list of specifics such as Sci fi, Horror, Poetry, etc, etc.

Naturally I chose Sci fi & Horror! FUN!

What sci fi did you read?

 

[Keroin]

What sci fi did you read?

In that course? Good gracious, you really are asking me to dig into the memory banks, aren't you? LOL.

Give me a moment, let the Earl Grey caffeine kick in...

 

[teknight]

Damn! Were I to have chosen "Meh don't care and/or gum." as an answer choice, would I have gotten gum? If so, I'd like to amend my response (as well introducing and banning prohibition).

 

[rosco rathbone]

I absolutely devoured sci fi up until my late teens, when I discovered "literature" and got all snobby about books. I never lost my love of cinematic sci fi, though.

However, recently I picked up "Wild Seed" by Octavia E. Butler and I feel myself being pulled back into the genre.

Heinlein and Asimov were two of my childhood faves.

I try to read Heinlein now and find him totally insufferable. Something about his tone appeals to the adolescent mind, like Ayn Rand.

 

[DVS]

I like science fiction partly because we don't really know if it's all fiction or not. That unknown and the possibility that we aren't alone in this universe. Remember those immortal words of Captain Kirk? Space: The final frontier...To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before. What could be cooler than that?

 

[FurryFury]

I try to read Heinlein now and find him totally insufferable. Something about his tone appeals to the adolescent mind, like Ayn Rand.

I found Heinlein in 7th grade and fell in love.

Last year I read all the Butler I could get my hands on.

 

[talismania]

I love science fiction, though I gravitate toward the human aspects rather than the technological/mechanical. How do advances challenge our humanity? How do we retain it? Should we retain it? That sort of thing.

But yeah... love it!

 

[rosco rathbone]

I found Heinlein in 7th grade and fell in love.

Last year I read all the Butler I could get my hands on.

I like Margaret Atwood, UK Leguin, stuff like that.

I'm a massive Jack Vance fan to this day, but his sci-fi is way too knowing and ironic to be classified as genre.

 

[Keroin]

Last year I read all the Butler I could get my hands on.

Butler's POV and sparse use of language is masterful.

 

[Keroin]

I like Margaret Atwood, UK Leguin, stuff like that.

Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" was too close to reality for comfort. Creepy.

I'm a massive Jack Vance fan to this day, but his sci-fi is way too knowing and ironic to be classified as genre.

It's sad that sci fi is so looked down upon by "serious readers". In writing circles, the sci fi/fantasy genre(s) are known as the ghetto. Wells and Verne wrote sci fi and yet you will find their works filed under "literature". Pfft.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" was too close to reality for comfort. Creepy.



It's sad that sci fi is so looked down upon by "serious readers". In writing circles, the sci fi/fantasy genre(s) are known as the ghetto. Wells and Verne wrote sci fi and yet you will find their works filed under "literature". Pfft.

Some writers have what it takes to make it out of that ghetto, others don't.

Nothing wrong with genre.

 

[midwestyankee]

Some writers have what it takes to make it out of that ghetto, others don't.

Nothing wrong with genre.

Genre pays better, too.

 

[Keroin]

Genre pays better, too.

I know. Fuck. I wish I was a mystery writer or a romance writer - buckets of cash in those genres.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Genre pays better, too.

You got that right.

 

[midwestyankee]

I know. Fuck. I wish I was a mystery writer or a romance writer - buckets of cash in those genres.

I can almost see you doing mystery/thriller: sexy, smart former stuntwoman Liberty McHurt foils an attempt to plant a nuclear bomb in every Tim Horton's in Alberta. It would sell by the dozen.

Romance is far too formulaic for you.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I can almost see you doing mystery/thriller: sexy, smart former stuntwoman Liberty McHurt foils an attempt to plant a nuclear bomb in every Tim Horton's in Alberta. It would sell by the dozen.

Romance is far too formulaic for you.

Don't forget the torture/interrogation scenes when the swarthy bad guys get her tied up.

 

[midwestyankee]

Don't forget the torture/interrogation scenes when the swarthy bad guys get her tied up.

Can't we have some pasty-faced evil Norwegians for once?

 

[where]

I used to really enjoy Iain M Banks and William Gibson. I hardly ever read fiction now though.

 

[Keroin]

I can almost see you doing mystery/thriller: sexy, smart former stuntwoman Liberty McHurt foils an attempt to plant a nuclear bomb in every Tim Horton's in Alberta. It would sell by the dozen.

I'd call it "Double Double Murder" - Canucks who love Tim's will get that one.

Romance is far too formulaic for you.

Ohhhhhhh yeah.

Don't forget the torture/interrogation scenes when the swarthy bad guys get her tied up.

Mmmm, swarthy bad guys...

Can't we have some pasty-faced evil Norwegians for once?

I'm an equal opportunist victim...ahem, I mean...heroine. Herring eaters are fine by me.


Hm, speaking of genre, I don't think I've ever read a Western. I shall have to read one.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I used to really enjoy Iain M Banks and William Gibson. I hardly ever read fiction now though.

You might like Alastair Reynolds, he's sort of a gothic Banks.

 

[where]

You might like Alastair Reynolds, he's sort of a gothic Banks.

I'll suggest it to the man.