Poll: what is your favorite piece of science fiction
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That actually makes a bit of sense. Perhaps he's an ex Operative turned to relgion. Maybe if he makes another movie it would hopefully sum it up.ReepNeep said:
Cinema: R O B O C O P ... or Carpenter's "The Thing".
Books: Frankenstein (sci fi to me - fits in with robocop too), Brave new world, 1984, Day of the Triffids.... I like the classics y'know
TV: Futurama's good but I aways find the sci fi element a bit too self consciously daft. Old school Doctor Who ftw.
From the list above I'd go with Hitchhikers for Book/TV and Star Wars (the first lot) for film.
1st post, btw. Howdy.
Books: Frankenstein (sci fi to me - fits in with robocop too), Brave new world, 1984, Day of the Triffids.... I like the classics y'know
TV: Futurama's good but I aways find the sci fi element a bit too self consciously daft. Old school Doctor Who ftw.
From the list above I'd go with Hitchhikers for Book/TV and Star Wars (the first lot) for film.
1st post, btw. Howdy.
Well I love the classics (thinking Gibson and Asimov), the comedy (Red Dwarf, Hyperdrive),the movies (The Matrix, Titan AE)and even the videogames (Fallout all the way).
However, having just finished Matter, Iain M Banks stands out for me at the moment. Especially his earlier stuff.
However, having just finished Matter, Iain M Banks stands out for me at the moment. Especially his earlier stuff.
You are a sucker for dysotopic neo-noirs that question the nature of humanity and mortality.Hey Joe said:
So am I.
Josh, I hope you'll add more things to the poll, right now it looks like a small chunk of mainstream SF.
Me, I'll mention Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner's based on his Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), one of the very few who managed to look beyond the epic hard SF and produce works that are not only good SF books but also good books in general. Somewhat schizophrenic, true, but good nonetheless.
Stanislaw Lem (in his later period, eg. The Futurological Congress) who pushed SF into the absurd (the smart, witty kind of absurd) and turned it into insightful social and philosophical commentary.
Strugacki brothers (Roadside Picnic) and their disturbing, eerie visions where the Unknown was more bizarre and alien than anything you'd find in any mainstream SF movie.
None of them, anyone ever seen the british version of Red Dwarf, the origonal and excellent version, whereas the US uses nearlly all the same jokes 5 years later.
With Tv it's got to be Battlestar. I've yet to find a show which manages to create such tantalisingly evil cliffhangers... And it's unembarrassing, serious Sci-Fi on TV! I mean, I love Dr Who, Firefly and Hitchhikers Guide but it just doesn't pack the same punch as something like Battlestar...
Anyway, favorite Sci-Fi of all time is either 1984 (not the film, because it doesn't make sense unless you've read the book) or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. That book's got one of the harshest and most disturbing endings in anything I've ever read...
Anyway, favorite Sci-Fi of all time is either 1984 (not the film, because it doesn't make sense unless you've read the book) or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. That book's got one of the harshest and most disturbing endings in anything I've ever read...
dune with the expection of sandworms of dune way to much use of deus ex machina (improbable solutions to reslove situations) devices. Following that Hitchhikers but not the last book that was a bit... weird.
In terms of film or tv Dr Who not so keen on new series, the original adaption of hitchhikers (wat teh fudge is with the new movie its all over the place.) and red dwarf
In terms of film or tv Dr Who not so keen on new series, the original adaption of hitchhikers (wat teh fudge is with the new movie its all over the place.) and red dwarf
My absolute favourite piece of sci-fi is the webcomic A Miracle of Science [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/index.html]. It has mad scientists, sapient robots, the only large-scale (spanning the entire planet of Mars, which appears to be quite well-populated) group intellect I've ever seen that wasn't evil and/or a sinister entity depriving its members of individuality, and for the most part sticks to the real-life laws of physics and avoids the gaping plotholes you see in a lot of sci-fi (for instance, potentially versatile technology only being used for one task). It was written by a guy who knows a lot of real-world science, so the annotations are also quite informative.
I also quite like Ender's Game, Firefly, Transmetropolitan, HHGTTG, Dune (although I never did read the last two books... and, come to think of it, it's been years since I read any part of the series), Doctor Who, and the second segment of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Haven't read much Asimov beyond one standalone book, but I did like Nemesis, and I've heard a lot of good things about the rest of his body of work, so I should probably check it out.
I also quite like Ender's Game, Firefly, Transmetropolitan, HHGTTG, Dune (although I never did read the last two books... and, come to think of it, it's been years since I read any part of the series), Doctor Who, and the second segment of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Haven't read much Asimov beyond one standalone book, but I did like Nemesis, and I've heard a lot of good things about the rest of his body of work, so I should probably check it out.
Asimov, of course.
Most of the things on that list owe their existence to him in some way or another..
Most of the things on that list owe their existence to him in some way or another..