I love , love, love science fiction and am still currently reading “the foundation trilogy” by isaac asimov. yay…any science fiction readers here? I would like to read more science fiction if it’s classic.
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I read a lot of sci fi and fantasy. I like escapist fiction for sure and there’s plenty of great reads out there.
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what are some of your favorites @rogueone ?
Try Edgar Rice Burroughs works.
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any titles in particular that you are fond of of burroughs works?
Robert Silverberg was my favorite sci Fi writer of all time.
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Please tell me you didn’t just Barsoom the poor guy.
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@jukebox , i don’t read science fiction because due to paronioa I think it is written for me and I also read my name in somewhere there.
Favourite authors are AA Attanasio, JG Ballard, Ray Bradbury…I’ll pretty much read most sci fi and fantasy though.
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oh ! I read some bradbury not long ago…loved it…used to read all his books when I was growing up. I will remember Jg and aa.
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@rogueone, i like you. You are a real man. But I wonder you like fictions, fantasies etc.
Good morning sir.
I love science fiction as well, though not so much the “golden age” stuff, although I can recommend a great story from 1950, by Cordwainer Bird, called “Scanners Live In Vain”. Fantastic stuff. Authors I enjoy include AA Attanasio, Greg Bear, Gene Wolfe, Ian MacDonald, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Roger Zelazny, and the amazing Harlan Ellison.
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My two favorites are “Stranger in a Strange Land” and “Tau Zero”… can’t think of the authors though.
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Have you watched The Invasion on Apple TV? Battlestar Galactica? The 2000s Battlestar is my favorite tv series of all time. I plan on rewatching when I turn 30.
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interesting…we have the complete seasons on battlestar gallactica on netflix cue but it is way down there…I have about 300 movies on cue on my netflix. ha
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My dissertation for History was based on Sci Fi
It was 10 years ago now, and my brain has taken a battering since
I remember my focus was Eugenics, and how this influenced some dystopian visions of the future
Was super interesting
We read most of the classics, but as I say, too long ago
Still watch sci fi movies, but I have not read a book cover to cover for a very long time
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Solaris! by Stanisław Lem. The movie (Tarkovski) is pretty good aswell, but it´s very different from the book. I think the book is better!
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I liked “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury. It was made into a movie and is available on YouTube.
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Poul Anderson. I used to have a bumper sticker that said “MY OTHER CAR HAS A BUSSARD RAMJET.”
I can recommend a couple books but you probably won’t read them. I used to really be into S-F in high school and read all kinds of novels and short stories. Coincidentally, both books are by Robert A. Heinlein. Orphans of the Sky stands out in my memory as a good book. And the other by Heinlein I like is Time Enough for Love. Time Enough for Love is an epic story. I can’t really describe it but it’s worth reading.