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

MissMeYet

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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!
 

DefiledDragon

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Don't read many sci fi novels but of those I have read, Hitchhikers Guide stands out.
Movies: Alien, Aliens, ST: TMP, Star Wars
TV: TNG, Dr Who (Tom Baker)
Games: FE2, Mass Effect (1 & 2), X-Wing v Tie Fighter, Alien Isolation, Mechwarrior IV (& Mercs), SW: BF 2
 

Frank

Frank
Best SF Novels: HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Quarantine by Greg Egan, The Collected Stories of Philip K. , Keep the Giraffe Burning by John Sladek

Best SF Movies: Minority report, The Matrix, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing (both versions), Forbidden Planet

Best SF TV Shows: FireFly, Star Trek TOS & DS9, Sliders, Stargate

Best SF Video Games: Elite: Dangerous, Asteroids, Defender, Doom, Halo
 
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Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
My favorite SF novels are Dune, the Saga of the Exiles, and the Morgaine trilogy
Favorite SF authors: Peter F. Hamilton, E.C. Tubb
Movies: Fifth Element, District 9, I also agree with Aliens and Starship Troopers
TV: Babylon 5, Farscape
 

Some1else

Some1else
Best Sci-fi books- Ender's Game, Snow Crash, Foundation Series.
Best Sci-fi Movie- Blade Runner.
Best Sci-fi TV- Firefly, Star Trek TNG
Best Sci-fi VG- ED, Mass Effect 1
Best Sci-fi Arcade game- Zaxxon, Tempest.

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DaveB

DaveB
Books: easier to list authors than individual stories or series - Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, Bova, E E "Doc" Smith, Cherryh, Anderson, Drake, Weber, Clarke, Pournelle - and that's just for starters.
Movies: All the Aliens, Most of the ST franchise, Serenity, 2001, SW original trilogy, Silent Running
TV: Dr Who (Tom Baker from the original bunch, Ecclestone from the newer ones), All ST except VOY. Firefly
Games: All 4 Elite titles, Mass Effect series, Descent and Descent Freespace, Wing Commander series, Xwing Tie Fighter and XvsT.

And of course HHGTTG in print, radio TV and film incarnations.
 

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Best SF Novels: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive

Best SF Movies: Alien, Blade Runner

Best SF TV Shows: ST: Battlestar Galactica (The new one)

Best SF Video Games: Elite: Dangerous, Shadowrun (Playstation)
 
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Lanceor

Lanceor
Specifically space science fiction?

Best SF Novels: The Mote in God's Eye, Rendezvous with Rama

Best SF Movies: Star Wars EP IV, V, and VII; Aliens

Best SF TV Shows: Firefly, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Macross

Best SF Video Games: Elite: Dangerous (duh), Descent, Space Ace(!)
 
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Cmdr Esteban

Cmdr Esteban
Novel: Rendezvous with Rama and its sequels (Arthur C. Clarke)

Films: Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan; Star Trek First Contact

TV series: Star Trek Enterprise; Star Trek Voyager
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
Best SF Novels: dunno really, not a book person. Remnants, maybe? Ooh, almost for got The Xenocide Mission

Best SF Movies: All the Star Trek Movies, all the Star Wars movies (even the prequels), Serenity, Lost In Space, The Core, The Martian, Interstellar, Mission to Mars, Red Planet, probably a dozen others I can't recall on the spot.

Best SF TV Shows: All the Star Treks (emphasis on Voyager), Firefly, Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (and the old one, Star Blazers), Vandread, Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis

Best SF Video Games: Elite: Dangerous, Star Wars Galaxies (may it rest in peace), Star Trek Online, Ace Combat 5 (not quite space, but close enough), Mass Effect 1 and 2, the Metroid series, the Starfox series, the Halo series

I'll probably edit this a few dozen times as I think of more to add.
 
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DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
Authors:
Stanislaw Lem
William Gibson
Ursula LeGuin
Ian Banks
Margaret Atwood
JG Ballard
John Wyndham


Films:
Stalker
Solaris (prefer the later one)
Wall-E (first act)
THX-1138. (first act)
Alien
Fantastic Planet
The City Of Lost Children
Dante01
Fifth Element
Ikarie 1-XB
Derelict (a black and white fan edit of Prometheus and Alien that fixes a lot of Prometheus's problems)
Star Wars Down Under. https://youtu.be/cJDTMDtc1KQ
Moon
Galaxy Quest
Blade Runner
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1950's one)
Mars Attacks

Games:
Machinarium
Syd Myers Alpha Centauri
NetMech
Homeworld
STALKER
Orbiter
Kerbal Space Program
System Shock
Alien vs Predator

Artists:
HR Geiger
Patricia Picinini
Jeremy Geddes
 
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jasonbarron

jasonbarron
I'm going with formative material.

Star Wars A New Hope in the theatre.

The novel Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

These were the two epic pieces of fiction that set me on the lifelong path of nerdism.

Elite Dangerous stands tall as my favorite sci-fi game of all time
 

CMDR Poet Starwind

CMDR Poet Starwind
Books:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Asimov's books - Foundation series, Elijah Bailey books, anything with robots, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Ringworld series
Snow Crash, The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
The Sprawl Trilogy and Burning Chrome by William Gibson
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Childhood's End, Rama series, Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Stranger in a Strange Land, Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, I Will Fear No Evil, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and so on from Robert H. Heinlein
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and other stories by Harlan Ellison
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly by Philip K.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, and So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
Dune, and all its flavors by Frank Herbert
and so many more...
Except Appleseed because I don't really get it and wow vocabulary

Movies:
Silent Running
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2001
Blade Runner
Dune (the 80s version)
Alien/Aliens
Moon
The Ice Pirates (ok, so it's comedy but c'mon)
Most Star Trek films
The Last Starfighter

TV:
Firefly
BSG (all of em)
ST and ST:TNG
Stranger Things
V
Doctor Who
Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits
Automan (sold me on being a programmer)

Games:
Elite / FE2
Armour-Geddon
The Killing Game Show / Blood Money / Walker
Infiltrator
Zaxxon / Galaga / Gyrus / Battlezone / Tempest
The XWing games
X-BTF, X2, X3 everything before X Rebirth
Titanfall / Titanfall 2
 
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Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson
Arthur C. Clarke, Roger Zelazny, Phillip K. , Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Robert A. Heinlein, Stanislaw Lem, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, Tad Williams, Michael Bishop... the list goes on.

Movies, 2001 for sure, but Alien is my all time favorite sci-fi movie. Interstellar was great, too. I'm also a Star Trek guy and like many of the movies too.

As for games, Elite, Empyrion, Rogue System, Mass Effect, Deus Ex come to mind. I also enjoyed EVE for a few years, but not that much of a pvp guy overall. Star Trek Online was fun too.
 
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