Sci fi...love or hate?

[FurryFury]

I agree that my fav sci fi TV shows get canceled too quickly. Sometimes I think that somewhere out there is a machine that notes what I like to watch or buy and then makes sure it's not available. LOL.

I miss 4400
First Wave
Sliders when it was good
Odyssey 5
Alienation
Earth 2
Dead Like Me
John Doe
Now and Again
Pretender
Pushing Daises and many more.

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?

I agree. It's fun to ruminate 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.

I've enjoyed some LeGuin but I'm not sure if I've read much Atwood or Vance. Perhaps now could be a good time to try them!

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!

I agree with this too. The reason that Heinlein appealed to me was because it was more about the people than the wowie sci fi stuff. Also, the kinky and bent stuff was hot to me. I mean, men's brains in women's bodies, group marriages and screwing your own assessors to produce your birth, were pretty radical concepts to my way of thinking.

One of my favs though, was The Door Into Summer, it's often overlooked in his works. All I concretely remember about this book is that I loved it, a man ordering milk in a bar, traveling with a cat who could walk through walls? Well, it was something like that. I must go back and read it again.

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

My favs of her works were Fledgling, her vampire novel and the Parable series. The Xenogenesis trilogy AKA Lilith's Brood was interesting as well. I've not been able to get any more than one book in the Patternist series so far. I've heard Survivor is really good but I've not found it yet.

 

[YourCaptor]

This thread need validation for a free pass in the BDSM district.

SciFi is one genra that allows for a powerful female lead role, aka domme

You can thank me later.

 

[Netzach]

Sometimes.

I like 12 Monkeys/La Jetee/Alphavile/T Zero - sci fi from people who don't usually do sci fi in other words.

I know I probably *should* like Heinlen, Dick, Clarke - but I don't really.


My latest sig quote is Tom Baker era Dr. Who.

I love MST 3K.

Those things charm me because they make fun of the genre while steeped in the pleasure of it. Fourth Doctor subtly and warmly, MST3K mercilessly and fan-love ridden.

I have very specific likes.

But I have no desire to socialize based on shared enjoyment of sci fi. I just don't care enough about premade fictions to get nutty about them - it's just like reading celebrity slash doesn't work for me. I can get evangelical about a song or a movie, but only up to a point compared to a con I have no attention span.

 

[Keroin]

But I have no desire to socialize based on shared enjoyment of sci fi.

One of the funniest sentiments I have read in a long time.

I getcha.

 

[Netzach]

This thread need validation for a free pass in the BDSM district.

SciFi is one genra that allows for a powerful female lead role, aka domme

You can thank me later.

Fun Fact:

the actress playing the part of "Starbuck" in the recent reiteration of Battlestar Galactica got death threats prior to filming because the character's gender was originally male.

Again - I have no desire to socialize with others based on shared love of sci fi.

 

[kikmosa]

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[FurryFury]

You would love Robert Asprin's 'Phule's Company" then. Sci-fi with a twisted comedy. Love Sci-fi myself. As long as it's not real bloody.

My favorite author is Anne McCaffrey's Pern series and Ship that Sang series. But the best is her Tower and the Hive series.

I based a role playing bard character on The Crystal Singer Series. I also enjoyed the Pern books for a while. I wanted to role play in that world too.

FF

 

[Keroin]

Fun Fact:

the actress playing the part of "Starbuck" in the recent reiteration of Battlestar Galactica got death threats prior to filming because the character's gender was originally male.

Was filmed in Vancouver, BTW. My friend doubled Starbuck.

ETA: But the death threat probably didn't come from Vancouver.

Again - I have no desire to socialize with others based on shared love of sci fi.

Oh stop!

 

[shadysmurfette]

Like/Really like Sci Fi at times
Its all about the escape and the technology and the fantasy

 

[kikmosa]

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[DVS]

Fun Fact:

the actress playing the part of "Starbuck" in the recent reiteration of Battlestar Galactica got death threats prior to filming because the character's gender was originally male.

Again - I have no desire to socialize with others based on shared love of sci fi.

Hey, you just don't go around messing with the pretty boy from "The A Team".

 

[Bandit58]

Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land was one of my favourite books as a teen.

Long time ago now

 

[Netzach]

Hey, you just don't go around messing with the pretty boy from "The A Team".

This reminds me - if anyone really thinks I'm being just a snob all "I love T zero" I have a total weakness for shit TV of the past. The A Team is exemplar.

George Peppard - leatherdaddy? Discuss. The gloves, the cigar, the need to humiliate the vanquished. *sigh*

 

[Netzach]

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

No but the Norwegians can supply you with zombie Nazis. Schlock horror and sci fi are good bedfellows.

 

[graceanne]

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But I have no desire to socialize based on shared enjoyment of sci fi.

Like.

 

[ElegantlyElle]

Considering my crush is Alexander Siddig, I think I'm a bit of a SciFi nerd.

 

[FurryFury]

Oh yes, Crystal Singer was a great series. I have most of her books. The new Pern book written by her son are good but not quite the same. The Powers That Be series are great also.

I agree.

 

[UltimateSwitch]

I'm weird with sci fi, it has to be comedic, like Douglas Adams, Spider Robinson, even Piers Anthony...anyone here know Spider Robinson?

 

[rosco rathbone]

La Jetee

i just watched this today for the first time and it sent me into one of the deepest naps I've taken in a long while.

 

[kikmosa]

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[UltimateSwitch]

I love Spider Robinson. Delightful twist of humor. I've read all of his books but I don't have them anymore. My ex burned every book I had just before we split. Never had the chance to replace them.

They aren't all that easy to find actually LOL, but god do I love em. No books have ever made me quite as happy. cept maybe jamiah Jefferson but shes not sci fi...

 

[FurryFury]

Piers Anthony can be good. My fav of his is On a Pale Horse but his false logic thing really bugs me. As if there is ONLY on good thing to do in any given situation if you think logically. I still enjoy him but that gets old very quickly.

FF

 

[UltimateSwitch]

Piers Anthony can be good. My fav of his is On a Pale Horse but his false logic thing really bugs me. As if there is ONLY on good thing to do in any given situation if you think logically. I still enjoy him but that gets old very quickly.

FF

true i suppose, though I don't have much complaint about him personally.

 

[BiBunny]

LOVED the Hitchhiker's Guide series and The Handmaid's Tale. Liked War of the Worlds and Fahrenheit 451. I think that's about all the sci-fi I've read, honestly.

 

[UltimateSwitch]

LOVED the Hitchhiker's Guide series and The Handmaid's Tale. Liked War of the Worlds and Fahrenheit 451. I think that's about all the sci-fi I've read, honestly.

Hitchhikers guide is great, if you really liked it, look up Spider Robinson, he has a similar absurdist style