Science Fiction Reccomendation & Discussion Thread

Of course Firefly and Serenity ... Jesus, Hassknecht. You're so damn right :D

Sadly we only got one TV Season and one movie. But there so fucking good.

And I forgot the movie, where my Avatar is from.

Strange Days

Big fan since my youth. Written, produced and camera technology developed by James Cameron. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
Fucking amazing movie. It's not one of those "hardcore" sci-fi movies (like, Star Trek, Star Wars, fantastic [outer space] stuff), more real world grounded.
 
DerGogan said:
Terminator (yes, all of them ;))
Click to expand...
220px-Terminator_Genisys.JPG
220px-Terminator_3_Rise_of_the_Machines_movie.jpg
220px-Terminator-salvation-poster.jpg

giphy.gif
 
Hardware [1990] post-apoc sci-fi is an acquired taste - cameos from Iggy Pop and Lemmy.
AI [2001] wasn't too bad, bout a robot child discovers how cool human life is and how much it can suck, Spielberg flick.
Flatliners [1990] bunch of medical students experience death by medically killing themselves then bringing themselves back.
Forbidden Planet [1956] Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen, nuff said.
Gattaca [1997] dude aspires to enter college of space but needs quality DNA.
Mars Attacks! [1996] classic Tim Burton sci-fi CGI-fest
A Scanner Darkly [2006] All star cast with Keanu Reeves at the helm, Based on Philip K Dick novel
Logans Run [1978] An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30.
Starship Troopers - Verhoevens Symphonic Turd :hide: [all his other films are fucking awesome]
 
For books I recommend (just from having read them):

The Player of Games and Matter by Iain M. Banks.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

For films I recommend (again from viewing):

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Solaris
Alien
Starship Troopers
And if you want a film of the actual book Starship Troopers (as I understand there's a controversy about that) watch:
Aliens
The Terminator
RoboCop
The Thing
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Metropolis
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) I haven't seen the remake but I've heard good things.
Moon
Mad Max
(Not really sci-fi but seeing as I'm mentioning Mad Max which is more dystopian than sci-fi I'll also mention):
Escape From New York
Mad Max: The Road Warrior
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
Total Recall (1990)
Predator
The Fly (1986)
Scanners
Videodrome
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Tron

You may have realised I'm definitely more of a film guy. I could mention the usual suspects like The Matrix or Star Wars or Back to the Future but I'd be more surprised that people hadn't seen them than had.

For TV all I can really recommend is Star Trek The Original Series, Star Trek The Next Generation, The Twilight Zone and Futurama.
 
If anyone's into hard sci-fi, I'd recommend the Mars Trilogy and Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. The Mars Trilogy can be a pretty dry read at times, but it's almost documentary-like spanning the future "history" of Mars colonisation and terraforming over two centuries, and how technology and society as a whole develop.

Aurora's also an incredible read. It's somewhat similar to the Mars trilogy but feels more personal. The story follows the latest generation of inhabitants in an interstellar generation ship approaching their destination: A star system containing a potentially inhabitable planet. What I love about this book is that it offers a more pessimistic view of the future of space travel, almost antithetical to the Mars Trilogy, but it still acknowledges the fact that it's the logical next step for the human race.

Like I said, both can be pretty slow reads, but the world building KSR achieves is simply beautiful. It's worth it simply for that.
 
Proximo said:
If anyone's into hard sci-fi, I'd recommend the Mars Trilogy and Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. The Mars Trilogy can be a pretty dry read at times, but it's almost documentary-like spanning the future "history" of Mars colonisation and terraforming over two centuries, and how technology and society as a whole develop.

Aurora's also an incredible read. It's somewhat similar to the Mars trilogy but feels more personal. The story follows the latest generation of inhabitants in an interstellar generation ship approaching their destination: A star system containing a potentially inhabitable planet. What I love about this book is that it offers a more pessimistic view of the future of space travel, almost antithetical to the Mars Trilogy, but it still acknowledges the fact that it's the logical next step for the human race.

Like I said, both can be pretty slow reads, but the world building KSR achieves is simply beautiful. It's worth it simply for that.
Click to expand...
Oh yeah, Kim Stanley Robinson is awesome. The Mars Trilogy is one of my favourite book series. 2312 I also liked, but too often it felt like KSR just forgot that he had a story to tell between the scenery porn.
 
Hassknecht said:
Oh yeah, Kim Stanley Robinson is awesome. The Mars Trilogy is one of my favourite book series. 2312 I also liked, but too often it felt like KSR just forgot that he had a story to tell between the scenery porn.
Click to expand...
That's how I feel about 'The tommyknockers' by Stephen king. Books 558 pages... There's a good 300 or so page story In there.
 
Anything 40K, especially the Horus Heresy series and anything by Graham McNeil.
 
Has anyone here read Altered Carbon? Apparently there's going to be a TV version coming out on Netflix. The director's supposed to be the same one who directed Hardhome, Battle of the Bastards, and many other great episodes of Game of Thrones. It looks like they took severe liberties with the book's premise if this article is correct, however. Hopefully it won't deviate that far from the story.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/joel-kinnaman-altered-carbon-netflix-1201772819/
 
kraag said:
Hardware [1990] post-apoc sci-fi is an acquired taste - cameos from Iggy Pop and Lemmy.
Click to expand...
One of my favourite films ever. It's just the right amount of corn.

As for sci-fi recommendations, I still have to work my way through this.
Sadly, I don't have as much free time as I used to, so my reading has been falling behind. Maybe at some point take some vacation days and read the shit out of that list.
 
The Expanse was a great show. Some people call it Game of Thrones in space, but I wouldn't quite go that far. But it plays out in a similar fashion, you get to follow different people in different places and see how their stories tie together. Looking forward to more of it.
 
The Dry Salvages by Kiernan, Caitlín R is how I like my Scifi to be (and try to emulate) - very hard on the scale, and very brisk and to the point yet still descriptive. without reading like a textbook. It paints a scientific voyage to an alien mining ruin or so in a nearby star system that, as it goes along, everything points to some horrid thing. The book follows the protagonist in her youth during the mission to as an older lady back on Earth a century later as the world slowly recoils from the mission.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top