General / Off-Topic Love of Science Fiction - That's why we're here, right?

[Ca$hback]

Novels: Heretics/Children/Messiah of Dune, Fulgrim/Legion/Horus Rising, Dragonriders of Pern, Iris, Higher Education
Movies: Alien, Empire Strikes Back, A New Hope, Blade Runner, Wrath of Khan, Snowpiercer, Matrix, Interstellar, Total Recall (1990), Terminator, T2, Aliens, Flight of the Navigator, The Explorers, Event Horizon, Iron Man, Zardoz
Shows: TNG, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, Clone Wars (Samurai Jack style), DS9, Outer Limits, Falling Skies, Highlander (cartoon)
Games: Independence War, Colony Wars, Empire at War, Ships at War, Laser Wars, War of Space, Doom 2

 

[MottiKhan]

Books (series)
The Second Ship
Old Man's War
Maker of Universes
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Dragon Knight

Shows:
Babylon 5
Stargate

And of course Star Trek > Star Wars.

 

[jasonbarron]

Books (series)
The Second Ship
Old Man's War
Maker of Universes
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Dragon Knight

Shows:
Babylon 5
Stargate

And of course Star Trek > Star Wars.

Wow, Thomas Covenant. White Gold Wielder and Unbeliever. That takes me back a few decades

 

[dubanator]

For books: I quite like "Strata" by terry prattchet.
"Pandora's star" by Peter f. Hamilton was also very good
And a lot of the others already mentioned

 

[Cerisse]

Love most of these suggestions! Esp Blakes 7, all ST (esp Voyager!), Babylon 5.

Just finished watching Season 1 of 'The Expanse' on Netflix and it was really good too.

 

[STARB0YY]

I will also give a mention to The Expanse, great show can't wait for season 2.

My favorite sci fi games:

Mass Effect Trilogy

Star Wars Kotor

Elite Dangerous (obviously)

Halo games

Favorite movies:

Star Wars

Alien

Interstellar

2001: a space odyssey

Shows:

Firefly

The Expanse

That's all I can think of at the moment.

 

[Faded Glory]

Authors would be Ian M Banks and Dan Simmons. Asimov also to be sure.

Movies, perhaps 2001, Blade Runner and Dark Star... Lots of good sci-fi-fi out there though.

Games, FE2

Don't really watch much TV, but certainly watched Star Trek as a youngster, and the original Dr Who.

 

[Bounder]

My fave sci-fi movies are Ice Age 2 and Harry Potter.

I think Star Fox is probably the best sci-fi game ever, but Elite: Dangerous Horizons Guardians Passengers is almost as good!

 

[Starstrydur]

All Star ####,
The 5th Element
Firefly
Alien/s all
Buckaroo Banzai AT8D
Robocop
Predator
Men in Black
Mad Max
Iron Man
Interstellar
Back to the Future
Death Race 2000
Dune
Flash Gordon
Independence Day
Armageddon
Matrix

Games
KOTORs
Wing Commander 3
Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi
Fallouts

 

[z993126]

Books: Always been a fan of Clarke...2001 novel and movie tend to complement each other as a whole rather than just liking one or the other. Firestar by Michael Flynn. Calling B for Butterfly, Children of the Dust, Moonwind, and Star Lord (all by Louise Lawrence) are quite good SF books I remember from my youth. Some Asimov, also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Film: 2001, 2010, the Fifth Element, looking forward to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the Martian, Flight of the Navigator, the Last Starfighter (if they did a modern reboot it might be pretty awesome).

TV series: Babylon 5, Planetes, Max Headroom, Star Trek (prefer TOS through bits of Voyager and DS9, felt they could've done so much more with Enterprise than they did).

Video games: Elite Dangerous, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Kerbal Space Program (which I'll get around to actually playing, one of these...years). X: Beyond the Frontier and Terminus were noteworthy, at least. Homeworld I managed somehow to nearly finish, then the next time I tried it a few years later couldn't even make it past the second scenario.

 

[Straha Yeagar]

Lots of mine have already been mentioned including the original mini series, television series, and second mini series V

There were many Star Trek and Star Wars novels that were good. Never really got into Thrawn though. My favorite series of books ever though is the World War series, all eight of them, by Harry Turtledove.

 

[Uiros Ueramos]

My fave sci-fi movies are Ice Age 2 and Harry Potter.

None of these are Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) movies. One is a caricatural cartoon animation lived in Earth's past and the other a silly fantasy for small children with lack of imagination.

Science Fiction is based, would you believe, in SCIENCE !!! Speculative, but Science, nevertheless...

 

[Uiros Ueramos]

Science Fiction Writters:

• Arthur C. Clarke
• Isaac Asimov
• Robert Silverberg
• Brian Aldiss
• Gene Wolf
• Philip K.
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• Olaf Stapledon
• Ray Bradbury
• ...

Science Fiction BD Artists/Writers:

• Moebius
• Enki Bilal
• Jean-Claude Mézières / Pierre Christin
• Philippe Druillet
• François Schuiten / Benoît Peeters
• Alexandro Jodorowsky

Science Fiction Films/Series:

• 2001 - A Space Odyssey
• Blade Runner
• Alien
• Ghost in the Shell
• Metropolis
• District 9
• Elysium
• Moon
• The Martian
• Ex_Machina
• The Expanse

Science Fiction Games:

• Elite: Dangerous
• Mass Effect
• Freespace
• I-War
• Homeworld
• Deus Ex
• STALKER
• KOTOR
• Half-Life
• Bioshock
• Dead Space
• ...

 

[Agony_Aunt]

At least, that's why I play space games. I love SF.

Best SF Novels: Ringworld, 2001: a space odyssey, The Mote in God's Eye

Best SF Movies: Aliens, Starship Troopers, 2001: a space odyssey

Best SF TV Shows: ST: TNG, BSG (2003-2009), Family Guy Star Wars Episodes IV-VI

Best SF Video Games: Elite: Dangerous, Star Wars: Tie Fighter, No Man's Sk...Lol, no...,

Your turn!

Novel: Dune

Movie: Dune

TV Show: Dune

Video Game: Emperor: Battle for Dune

Ok ok, i do like all those, and the film version of Dune is one of my all time favourites (despite how it deviates from the books), but here we go with a non-Dune oriented list....

Novels: Dan Simmons - Hyperion books. Peter F Hamilton - Night's Dawn Trilogy. Currently reading the Wild Card's books, which is a bit sci-fi, especially the part when the main characters go off world.

Movies: Too many to mention... did i already say Dune? The Thing was pretty awesome. Alien/Aliens of course. Blade Runner. Fifth Element....

TV Shows: Again, many, but the one that really grabbed me more than any other, the Sci-Fi channel remake of Battlestar Galactica. This video pretty much sums up my experience watching it:

[video=youtube;njr3aFpTMyQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njr3aFpTMyQ[/video]

Video games: Star Trek Armada 2 (especially with Fleet Ops total conversion). Command and Conquer series (yes, i do like strategy games....). And ofc, all the Elite games.

 

[lokvette]

Not really got a Best of anything more a list of my Favourite few.

Favourite SF Novel: Berserker by Fred Saberhagen.

Favourite SF Movie: Silent running.

Favourite SF TV Show: Babylon 5 (Depending on how The Expanse turns out this might well top it)

Favourite SF Video Game: Frontier Elite 2.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Without sounding like a clown I am here because of ED, not SF - I go elsewhere for that fix.

EDIT:
Ah I see, love of Sci-Fi et all which is why you play ED ... well, I guess .. I played Elite(84) back in the day as it was something new; something fresh - space related and gelled with TV like Star Trek (TOS) ... which is why I gave my (now misguided) faith in DB that he could do it again .. sadly, half the magic was missing and notalgia blinded me to that.

 

[RooksBailey]

Let's see:

My choices:

Best SF Novels: War of the Worlds, Roadside Picnic, Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow (short story collection)
Best SF Movies: Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, War of the Worlds (1953), Terminator, Alphaville

Best SF TV Shows: The Twilight Zone, Cowboy Bebop, The Expanse, Star Trek: TNG

Best SF Video Games: Elite: Dangerous, Eve Online, Distant Worlds: Universe, AI War: Fleet Command, Sins of a Solar Empire

 

[metatheurgist]

Wow, Thomas Covenant. White Gold Wielder and Unbeliever. That takes me back a few decades

Stephen Donaldson also wrote The Gap cycle which is scifi and probably under-appreciated.

 

[lokvette]

Stephen Donaldson also wrote The Gap cycle which is scifi and probably under-appreciated.

I always saw the Thomas convent books as fantasy, and my god they were a slog, but the Gap is a brilliant series well worth a read for anyone who hasn't.

 

[Frank]

How the heck did you miss Babylon 5?!?! [down]

--IronDuke

If I keep editing stuff in that I'd forgotten and was mentioned later on in the thread, my post would be very large indeed.

How could I forget about Robert Holdstock, Drew Wagar, Kate Russell, All the folks what wrote Elite: Tales From The Frontier, John Haper, Allen Stroud.

And my absolute most favourite author of all time, bearing in mind that if, when I log in, I find that I've an extra billion credits or so in my account, I won't complain about it... Michael Brookes!