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Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

What's your favorite science-fiction concept/story and why?

And if I left anything out, please specify it and tell us why it should be included.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Some great literary universes missing there, like
Larry Niven's Protector/Ring World/ARM/etc. universe,
David Brin's Uplift Universe,
CJ Cherryh's Union - Alliance universe,
Silverberg's Majipoor,
Burroughs' Barsoom,
Clark's Rama,
Greg Bear's Eon/Eternity,
Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars...

I couldn't possibly choose one that towers over the others, maybe of the ones you list I'd say Asimov's Foundation.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Oh, cold. You forgot Battlefield Earth, or B.E. as us Battlefieldies like to call it.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

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Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Dr. Who is also missing.
Hitchhiker's Galaxy...

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Dune is my favorite written series but Star Wars is the best cinematic sci fi. Star Trek is a good runner up but Star Wars (ep iv-vi) is the bar.

shortskirt_longjacket · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:37 am Post subject:

Star Trek, baby (The Next Generation, specifically). The Prime Directive. It's so relevant to real life. It's actually based more on science than others, I think. In fact, I like only Star Trek in the sci-fi genre. I'm a science nerd, can't get enough of the stuff, and Star Trek is in keeping (mostly) with scientific principles and concepts.

Mills · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon

mithridates · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:51 am Post subject:

Dune, Star Wars (all of them, especially Episode III), and Star Trek (especially TNG). In spite of the fact that most people in our countries like episodes VI - VI the best, when I watched them all from I to VI, the Korean girl I saw them with who had never seen them before liked episodes II and II the best, and V and VI were... all right. She hated how Anakin went from his character in Episode III to the one-dimensional "I'm going to torture you for information with this creepy syringe-armed robot, Leia!" bad guy in IV, even though I had explained ahead of time on how it was originally made to be stand-alone. Still a shock, because she loves Anakin.

And hates Luke.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

Asimov rules. Forever.

Not a series, but William Gibson essentially created a new sci-fi genre.

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I voted for Asimov's robots out of sentiment, because it was the first SF I read as a kid ... the original I, Robot was a series of stories that asked you to solve ethical problems using formal logic and nothing else, and challenged you to come up with something better than what the positronic brains did ...

As an adult, I like Robinson's Mars triumverate, just for the quality of brain cells he devoted to it ... too bad it's not on the list.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

David Drake

The Hammer's Slammers

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VanIslander · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

"Core systems tranferred to probe craft. Launch when ready."

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I studied Star Wars episdoe IV with my class this week.

I've always maintained and still maintain, Star Wars captured my imagination and makes me feel like no other science fiction ever has, but the writing is lame, the story line is light, and except for a few exceptions, the acting is mediocre to bad.

It was just the right movie in the right place at the right time and if the original was released today, for the first time, it would be straight to video.

I love it, but but that's just because I was a slack-jawed 6 year old watching a couple of robots and Luke Skywalker in a theater in Duluth Minnesota and seeing things that did not exist but deep down I was sure they did.

Dune is incredibly complex with layers and layers of plots. In general, the characterizations are good and the long-term development of institutions and beliefs is well done.