Science Fiction

how broad is your definition of science-fiction?

When I was a child I always liked the book "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L´Engle.

David Weber is a good author,not one of my favorites but good.my favorite scifi series is dickson´s Dragonknight stories.really good books;footfall,lucifer´s hammer,any of falkenberg´s mercenaries or the codominium stories,the original bolo books and spinoffs,the moon is a harsh mistress,protector,ringworld,1632,1633,the spellsinger series or anything by alan dean foster,terry pratchett´s discworld stories,the Vorkosigan series,the time machines,lots more that i can´t remember right now. taw:sci-fi is imo any fictional science story with a scientific basis in reality,however tenuous.now there´s hard scifi and soft scifi,hard scifi uses well researched and grounded theory blended with fiction to create otherwise unbelievable feats whereas soft scifi can assume anything about technology,even be about a fantasy theme with science being an explanation for dragons,magic etc.

Michael Crichton´s books are generally excellent, in my opinion (Sphere, Prey, Andromeda Strain, etc.)

Oh god, andromeda strain is my favorite book of all time. Absolutly amazing. Is the movie "Sphere" based on his book? cause i liked that movie. Very good plot it had.

Book - tie - Uhura´s Song and Black Fire (trek) Movie - Star Wars TV - Next Generation Game - Star Wars:Rebbellion (pc)

oh man I am a sci-fi nut lol. If it is sci-fi I love it . I have to say for TV it has to be babalon5 and stargate SG1 for movies I have to say the original star wars trilogy and I can say for books because so many of them are great. Blessed Be to all those that still dream of the flight to the stars.

Sci-fi favorites... Movies: Predator 1+2 Aliens Chronicals of Riddock Star Trek 2,4,&amp; 6 The Last Starfighter Millenium Pitch Black Empire and Jedi (episodes 5 and 6) Sphere Deep Star 6 Abyss Alone in the Dark Resident Evil Barbarella ( i know sounds cheesy..but it was a good funny film) There are a few more movies, but its after 1am <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Games: Doom (all games) AVP (all of em) KOTOR 1&amp;2 System Shock 1&amp;2 Xenosaga episode 1 Armored Core (all of em!!) Mechwarrior (3,4..etc..etc) Total Annhilation (the game +expansions) Starcraft Raptor Call of the Shadows Robotech Command and Conquer (all of em) Contra (originals and the new one) F-Zero (SNES version and Gamecube version) HSX Hypersonic Extreme Racing Wipeout (all of em) Many MANY more games also...too late to remember em all <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Books/Novels/Graphic Novels/Short stories...etc..etc..: AVP (all of em) Starwars (all of em) War of the worlds (Original not the remake) Lode Runner names are escaping me with the books...i´ll have to look em up later lol well theres a few for ya. &quot;To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can&quot; Edited by - Dark_Shadow2004 on 9/1/2005 10:25:17 PM

Holy cow ds, you just brought back some good memories. Movies: Blade Runner Alien Series Gattaca (good example of Hard Sci-Fi) Back to the Future The Matrix (first one) Games: Deus Ex 1 System Shock Series Total Annihilation + Expansions Doom Series Half-Life Series Dark Forces Series (except maybe Jedi Academy) Starcraft &amp; Brood War Uplink TV: ST Voyager Stargate SG1 (all cos of MacGuyver) -:- You wanna revolution?

Books:- The War of the Worlds The Illustrated Man Something Wicked This Way Comes The Martian Chronicles Ringworld/Ringworld Engineers/Ringworld´s Children Protector Foundation/Foundation &amp; Empire/Second Foundation Out of the Silent Planet/Voyage to Venus/That Hideous Strength Canopus in Argos: Shikasta Starship Troopers The Forever War Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Drowned World Day of the Triffids Lest Darkness Fall Films:- Solaris Blade Runner The Quiet Earth Ghost in the Shell Laputa, Castle in the Sky Alien War of the Worlds (1953) Macross Plus Event Horizon anything Godzilla Games:- Wing Commander series Half-Life series Homeworld series Freespace series Return to Castle Wolfenstein C&amp;C: Tiberian Sun SW: Jedi Outcast Deus Ex Alien v. Predator 2/Primal Hunt Alpha Centauri Fallout TV Series:- U.F.O. Survivors Dr.Who ST-DS9 ST-TOS Battlestar Galactica (2003) Neon Genesis Evangelion Blake´s 7 Babylon 5 Thunderbirds Captain Scarlet Joe 90 (funky 60s music) Fireball XL5 The Tomorrow People Edited by - Tawakalna (Reloaded) on 9/2/2005 11:19:01 AM

Thanks guys, I´ll put em on my to do list Ph34r d4 C/-//_/p4c4br4

@Love Shark: Thanks, at last someone mentions Gattaca... One of the best ****ing SF movies ever. @Taw: You watch Neon Genesis: Evangelion? Cool! I have every DVD that can be bought regarding NGE. MOVIES: <i>Gattaca </i> <i>Neon Genesis: Evang

my favourite sci-fi film is contact with jodie foster.

Isaac Asimov - the Foundation series and the Robot series...and his short stories not the greatest literary writer in the world but intelligent and a very interesting mind Films? 2001 A Space Odyssey of course...and the first Alien (the others to a lesser extent) was one of my favourite science fiction movies, I don´t see how its classified &quot;horror&quot;... Edited by - Griffon_26 on 9/3/2005 5:26:14 PM

Well.... Near the top of my list would be (for books): Athur C. Clarke - Childhood´s End, 2001, 2010, the ´Rama´ series George R. Stewart - Earth Abides Samuel R. Delany - The Fall of the Towers trilogy, Dhalgren, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand H.G. Wells - The Time Machine, Men like Gods, The War of the Worlds Frank Herbert - The Dune series Anything by Alan Dean Foster.. - Love the ´Spellsinger´ series (tho it´s not Sci Fi) Niven &amp; Pournelle - Footfall, Lucifers Hammer, The Ringworld series Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicals, The Book of Ptath (not 100 % sure he wrote it <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>), Fahrenheit 451 The list goes on and on the more I write down the more I think of.. Movies Starwars Alien Predator Terminator and the rest of the ´Arnie series´ Total recall I liked Gattica too.. .... and was amused by Starship Troopers.. (must´ve been a hell of a population explosion - cause grunts are cheap, and weapons technology seems to have advanced hardly at all, what no artillery/air support? lol) The old version of the Time Machine with Robert Taylor and Yvette Mimieux.. (whooo!!) <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> The original ´War of the Worlds´ Nuff from me.. Harrier

Harrier, Earth Abides? I havent read that for years, loved it because I read it just before the BBC tv series Survivors was aired (mid 70s) Book of Ptath was AE van Vogt btw.

Tawakalna, Yeah.. post apocalypse without the bomb.. and many many years before stuff like Outbreak.. ´Q´ Fever... Lol.. apt .. and a very cool story. Thanks for the A E van Vogt info.. I have been reading Sci Fi for many years and used to have a pretty big collection.. many borrowed and never returned... <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>, others lost/thrown out in moves.. Harrier