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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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!