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!