| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/4/2008 11:36:23 PM | Message 24, do you mean the Tomorrow people? I loved that.
I loved Dr Who as a kid, nothing as scared me as much since the daleks and yes I used to hide behind the sofa too!
Also used to like Blakes 7, still watch Star trek, DS9 every afternoon on Virgin 1.
Films, Stargate, never really got into the tv series, also love the starfighter and the matrix.
Never really got into reading sci fi apart from the Rama books by Arthur c clarke. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 1:15:26 AM | Stuff I liked from long ago?...Hmm the orginal Star Trek was OK, Stargate is a fun romp, very good. Aliens and the Thing prolly two of the best sci-fi films ever made, along with any film made from a Philip K****book, Bladerunner, Imposter, Screamers, Total Recall.
A recent sci fi book I just finished was called Olympos, and it was very good. Strata and Dark Side of the Sun are two classics. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 1:25:30 AM | I like most Sci Fi .... Otis Adelbert Kline, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke to name a few ... I'm not sure that he would be classed a true Sci fi writer but a lot of his books skirt that genre, I think Clive Barker is an excellent author...
Loved the original Star Trek, never bothered with anything after Captain Kirk, I'm a purist lol ...
Yep I think I can confess to being a SCi Fi fan.. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 2:45:26 AM | Me luurve Captain Kirk! Original pocket rocket man too to go beyond......and then some!
Bladerunner, Mad Max, Matrix, Crouching Tiger..,Firefly good a/vs. Read Wyndham as a kid, Philip K****I enjoy, love Tiger Tiger by Alfred Bester. Am trying to get into Ian M Banks at the moment, my sisters favourite. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 3:10:10 AM |
Maybe Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers killed em all,or are holding em hostage on the Death Star
I think the fat man from the Simpsons ate them all myself, or has them locked in the basement where they are all doing that star trek sign with their fingers whilst playing with star wars pretend light sabers. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 3:15:06 AM | I like Star Wars, Lexx: Tales from the Dark Zone ( well, some of it ) and am a self confessed Dune anorak.  | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 3:59:56 AM | Any one remember another B-movie classic called " THEM" about giant ants..?? Scared the krapp outta me when i seen an ant.. lol Oh! and i used to cry myself to sleep as a kid thinking GODZILLA was going to crush all the houses, and derstroy mankind forever!!! 
Armchair theater, showed a classic once called simply "GHOST" was basically a white sheet moved around by string..  but remember very well hiding behind the settee as a kid.. and mom yelling for me to get to bed.. as i was too young and it would give me nightmares.. How nasty was that!!! cos she was right.. fancy sending you to bed to have one.. PARENTS EH!!!!!!!! | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 7:55:35 AM | I cant BELIEVE no-one has mentioned My Favourite Martian , starring (...??)
that got me hooked on SF ... | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 8:24:05 AM | I forgot all about star wars !!! ( wheres the shock emote ? )
yeah , i spent a lot of my childhood collecting star wars miniatures , millenium falcon , tie fighter , x fighter , y fighter , land-speeder , AT-AT , scout walker , speeder bike , tauntaun and the like. I think i had around 60 of the little figurs , but when i started going to high school i found i wanted to swap them for jean-michel-jarre albums and astro wars etc.....
If only i'd known how valuable they would become !!!
Also , i think Spielberg did a lot to popularise sci-fi with close encounters , ET , batteries not included.
Im reading an Asimov book on the train called............er..............i just went to look , but i seem to have lost it somewhere amongst the various paraphernalia that populates the room. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 11:37:34 AM |
Any one remember another B-movie classic called " THEM" about giant ants..??
I remember that so well and where I was when I first saw it.....I was in a caravan at Cleethorpes for a two week (YES TWO FOOKIN PISS IT DOWN WEEKS) holiday.
I don't know which was the scariest, but i do remember absolutely caking myself watching these forty foot ants killing everything in sight.
On the subject of Keanu doing a remake. I thought that The war of the worlds was going to be a right stinker (Made by americans & starring the oompah loompah of the film world). But I'll be totally honest in the fact that I think it's one of the best sci-fi films out to date. Still not as good as the original though, but at least the new version kept true to its predecessor. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 11:41:19 AM | Only reason for having sky is the sci fi channel, fantastic..
Has anyone heard of the film Lucky Star, came out about 4 years ago, but never been able to find it on DVD 
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 11:50:12 AM |
Has anyone heard of the film Lucky Star, came out about 4 years ago, but never been able to find it on DVD
Take a look at the vid below. It may explain everything, if it's the same one you were thinking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6jhcfWcgk
Sorry to everyone for putting the above thingy on the thread by the way. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 12:18:41 PM |
Take a look at the vid below. It may explain everything, if it's the same one you were thinking about.
It looked so damn good..
Oh well at least I was not the only one fooled...
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 12:45:23 PM | | First book i have ever read for fun was Allen Dean Foster, Flinx and have been hooked on Sci-fi ever since. Love all of it. Books, tv and films. Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Matrix and all the rest. It is no secret and i do tell people when they ask. x | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 1:40:40 PM | Sci Fi is the tops! 
Star Trek, Star Wars, V, Taken, 4400, Quantum Leap, Back To The Future, X-Men,
Blade Runner, Battlestar Gallactica, The Matrix, The Fifth Element..... To name but a few
Anyone remember "The Blob"? Now that scared the bejesus out of me when I was a nipper. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/5/2008 2:41:57 PM |
I cant BELIEVE no-one has mentioned My Favourite Martian , starring (...??)
Bill Bixby played Tim O'Hara
Ray Walston played his 'uncle' Martin (the Martian) | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/6/2008 4:05:08 PM | I think either this is where my age comes into it.. or proves that 'proper' sci-fi was around for a lot longer than 'Torchwood'.
Sheech!.
I read the books of E.E 'Doc' Smith.. Now that took me places I never knew existed..
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/6/2008 4:07:00 PM |
I read the books of E.E 'Doc' Smith.. Now that took me places I never knew existed..
Like a seat on the bus? | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/6/2008 5:16:53 PM | Not sure if this comes under sci fi or classic fiction but how about War of the Worlds and no i do not mean the pile of crap with tom cruise in it .
Try listening to the original radio broadcast and imagine being sat there on October 30th, 1938 hearing that and you can understand why people believed it ...... | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 1/7/2008 5:30:34 AM | I read more Sci-Fa then Sci-Fi now but it was really Asimov and Frank Herbert who got me hooked on reading.
Just re-read the Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy over xmas though and bloody good books.
Always been lots of women who read Sci-Fi, more women have got into Sci-Fa with stuff like on-line MMOs and books like Harry Potter to start the interest.
I know nearly as many women who played games like Everquest and World of Warcraft though numbers have risen more over last five years than any time I have known.
Anything that takes your mind off the world in general for a few hours is good for me as long as it keeps my brain engaged. | |
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