SciFi

[bertine]

Since I am awake and not really tired I thought I would ask you guys a question. I love science fiction and want to know what your favorite book, tv show, movie or comic book is in science fiction genre.

My favorite book series is The Company books by Kage Baker. I also like a bunch other other ones but I haven't really been reading much scifi for the last couple years

I think my favorite comic is Y The Last Man but I do like Fables

I have way too many TV shows to choose from. My current favorites are Supernatural, Misfits and DS9. These are all ones I am watching right now. Honorable mention for the mini-serieses The Lost Room & the 80s V. I also love a billion other shows.

For movies I love Forbidden Planet (played at our wedding), Alien & Aliens, The planet of the Apes, Tron, They Live, Pitch Black and this getting really long.

Anyways, if you have a scifi book to recommend, I am all for it. Otherwise tell me what you like.

Also, not really related, gwangi and I watched the movie "It! Terror from beyond space" tonight and it wasn't that good. However, I think two of the male characters were in a romantic relationship. Even if that isn't true, I have decide that they were.

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[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh god there's just TOO MUCH. I don't know that I can have one single "favourite" of any of this (: What's more, you've been over and pretty much seen all the crap I have.

I still need to watch S3 of Misfits. I almost did the other night but then I... uh. What DID I do. Hmm. Oh and I found all the Alien movies on blu-ray at Target for like $35!!! So that's two good movies and one mediocre movie and one what the hell where they thinking movie for pretty cheap!

Babylon 5 is still one of my all-time favourite SciFi TV shows. And Farscape. Oh and Lexx! Have you watched Lexx? It's kinda way the heck out there, in a way only a German/Canadian production could be. Oh and Red Dwarf.

I am really liking Lost Girl, which is more Fantasy than SciFi. That show runs on cleavage and snark.

If you've never watched The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, and you like steampunk SciFi, you should watch the whole one season of that.

Ok, movies... oh god there's just way too many. Does A Clockwork Orange count as SciFi? I love that movie. And Silent Running... I know it's shitty production values. And acting. But hey.

Boooooooks... well you've seen the bookshelves, they are virtually 100% SciFi and Fantasy. I actually don't like Book Series. I wish more people would write individual books, because it just turns into a MESS. Look at Asimov's "Foundation" series, and "Dune". Books for those damn things keep coming out long after Asimov and Herbert have been dead! Ugh.

That said, Niven's "Ringworld" is way up there. You can read the first one as a standalone fairly easily, but the sequels are pretty good, too... and then you can expand into Niven's whole "Known Space" universe. I really think Niven has a way of getting into alien minds that makes them very realistic. If you haven't read Ringworld, READ IT RIGHT THE HELL NOW.

If you have, read Legacy of Heorot and it's sequel, Beowulf's Children.

I have a book called "Prince Ombra" by Roderick MacLeish. I got it at a used book store. I started reading it at like 9pm one night and seriously couldn't stop till I finished it the next morning. I'm not even kidding. I want someone else to read it to see if t was just me.


Honestly I'm going to hit "Post" on this right now because I'm dangerously close in proximity to the bookshelves and I'm dangerously close mentally to going over there and writing essays on just about all of them!

[woodoo24.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a SciFi guy but the first book I remember checking out from the Jr. High library was Logan's Run. The movie sucked bad. But I understand they are remaking it. There was a book series called "Necroscope" about time/space traveling "vampires" and a British Spymaster that can talk to the dead who is using the Möbius Continuum to hunt the Wamphyri. Not sure if it is totally SciFi but it's my flavor.

For movies some of the same you had...Plant of the Apes, Alien/s... plus Johnny Mnemonic.

When I googled "best SciFi movies" (like I said I'm not a SciFi guy) there were quite a few of my favorite movies that did make the list. 12 Monkeys is one of my all time favorites. The Thing was another great movie which I'm not sure I would have said was SciFi but made the list. And Young Frankenstein??? Great funny movie but... I guess there is certainly a sub-genre of SciFi that I do like.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/scifi

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I'll have to give this some thought...

Speaking of romantic relationships. I can't watch Supernatural without thinking of all the Internet slash it must churn out.

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

You know what I kind of dig about that show? They KNOW how much internet slash they churn out and they pander to it! It's done very tongue-in-cheek but they do a lot of tiny "and we love you, too, strange slasher fangirlie!" stuff.

While I'm not a fanfic or slash girl myself, that actually kept me watching the show longer than I otherwise would have.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I think I have a man-crush on Misha Collins

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

As well you should, my friend. As well you should.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Misha Collins is so awesome. I love the "reality" episode where he was tweeting everything.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

best part - he really tweeted all those things on his twitter account IRL

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Oh my! My crush on him is even bigger now.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I love that they even have a term for it, "wincest". (oddly my touh recognizes that as a word)

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

Dear gawd, I have no idea where to start! You have overwhelmed me with this question and I don't know how to answer! Gah!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. This is the stuff I could remember while laying in bed last night. I am such a nerd.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I am currently watching Farscape. It hasn't hooked me in, but I'm comfortable with the Muppets, now. Rygel is very well-done.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

The muppets were really good. While I did watch the whole thing (twice) it isn't on my list of favorites. My dad, however, loves it.

[beg-jon13.livejournal.com]

Oh fun! I'll just keep it to number 1 favorites here and as strict to science fiction as I can (without spilling into space opera/fantasy).

Book: 1984

Comic: Earth X

TV Show: Battle Star Galactica (followed closely by DS9).

Movie: Rise of Planet of the Apes knocked Tron: Legacy out of the lead last summer.

[grenacia.livejournal.com]

I really like Kage Baker's Company series. I'm trying to think of what is similar to it and also really good, but really that series is kind of unique.

I seem to recall you also read romance, have you read Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series? It's time travel historical romance fantasy, and I think it's quite good.

In the historical time travel genre, I'd also recommend Jack Finney's "Time and Again" and it's sequel "Time After Time", I bet you'd like those.

I like the comic book series "Ex Machina" by the same author as "Y: The Last Man", I definitely recommend it if a reading political dramas with sci-fi/superhero elements to it appeals to you.

[jwright-71673.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I could pick a favorite, but I've always loved both Tron and The Black Hole - Dreamhaven was open on Saturday and I found the novelization of The Black Hole for a dollar. I used to have it when I was little. Oh and I'm a lifelong fan of Arthur C. Clarke too.

[quantumdriver.livejournal.com]

My favorite sci-fi book for a little while has been Temple of the Past by Stefan Wul (the author who wrote the book Fantastic Planet was based on, which I would chalk up as a favorite movie, both for weirdness and nostalgia (it creeped the hell out of me as a kid)). The book is mostly really good, and the only fault I have with it involves huge spoilers. Unfortunately, it only had a single English printing in the '70s.

Otherwise I also hugely enjoy the Instrumentality of Mankind stories by Cordwainer Smith, including his only (sci-fi) novel, Norstrilia (written slightly before Dune and almost exactly like it but better and doesn't take itself so seriously). These also have a nostalgia value for me too, since I was first introduced to them around the age of 9 because my dad had an old sci-fi anthology from the 60s or 70s that included his story "A Planet Named Shayol" about a prison planet where a native lifeform infects the prisoners, causing them to grow extra organs that are harvested and sold off as spare parts, and their warden/caretaker is a cow surgically engineered into a person--when I looked it up a few years ago I was amazed to find it was part of a whole universe of stories by this revered, but nearly unheard of author.

I also have a nostaligic affectation for a Jack Vance story "the Potters of Firsk," which I also get to reference about once a year because of a uranium glass collection we have at the museum.

I also got quite into the Noon series by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, most of whose stories are kind of like prime directive episodes of Star Trek, but more interesting. The best of these, I thought, was Prisoners of Power. They also wrote Beetle in the Anthill, which people have pointed out the plot to Avatar was suspiciously similar to (and what I actually though Avatar was going to be an adaptation of when I saw the first trailer).

I hate to sound like I'm just liking obscure stuff to show off my sci-fi cred, but these things are seriously super-good!