| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/25/2008 11:21:54 AM | | Does it have to be star trek and star wars, although ok. I have just watched the Scanner Darkly, excellent film, read the book by Philip k****yonks ago. Has anyone seen Dark City.... also excellent. Prefer books to films though. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/25/2008 11:22:50 AM | | a modern sci-fi author who is utterly spellbinding is Iain M Banks (he also writes contemporary fiction, including "the wasp factory", "crow road" as Iain Banks). Incredibly dark and inventive, "against a dark background" and "consider phlebas" are utterly amazing books | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/26/2008 3:41:32 PM | sci-fi is my fav type of show,i think its on my profile
i dont see anything wrong with it,most people like it | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/26/2008 4:53:46 PM | Well, I can't imagine anyone trying to chat up a woman by talking about Star Wars....
(even if they are great movies)
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/26/2008 5:22:50 PM | I started by listening to Movie-Go-Round on radio (should that be wireless?), when they played excerpts from the film of The Day of The Triffids. (Boy, does that date me, as it was made in 1962!) This led me on to the mistake of reading John Wyndham's book - and then all his others. Then I found Clarke's Profiles of The Future in a second-hand book shop and read all of his works I could get hold of... then Asimov's oeuvre - and I haven't stopped since. And I re-read all of them several times over. Is it an obsession?
I prefer the older SF to the newer and books rather than film or TV. I like using my imagination, and don't enjoy the interpretations of others so much.
Became very jealous when Ruffy posted this:
Proud collector of 1939-1970 Sci-Fi paperbacks and US Sci-Fi Mags (Astounding etc)
I have only read anthologies of the "best" of those magazines, to be able to touch the originals - wow!
One book I read in the early 60s was called The Death of Metal. I wish I could find that one again - I am not sure if it was a good book, a frightening book or just a "cool" book to read at a time when all my mates were into Mills and Boon! | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/26/2008 5:45:07 PM | Not sure its not wanting to "admit" it, its just irrelevant really, and with so many assumptive paranoid types who lack the intellect to move beyond generalisation on places like this whatever you say you like is likely to be assumed to the extreme and interpretted in a negative way anyway
Although that said, and considering how little people say about themselves on profiles anyway if someone who said hardly anything else did say they liked scifi then it would seem as tho they were an uberdorky geeky nerdy type who lived in a total fantasy world (other than the online one) and had a very loose grasp on reality
Some scifi is ok, some is ace and much of it is total meandouring crap, but to just say "I like sci fi" without qualification would sound like you like ALL scifi, which in turn could easily suggest you have a severe dissassociation with reality
My favourite fiction is the news tho, but its nearly always a repeat | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/27/2008 12:32:37 PM | | Welllll it seems there are a lot of scifi lovers out there (me included!!) currently watching farscape from beginning to end (missed it when it was on the TV) read through a few dozen of the replies... did anyone say yes to your scifi singletons club idea.. I'd be interested in joining if you form one! | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/27/2008 4:11:06 PM | | And let us not forget "Blakes 7" a brilliant piece of escapism for 50 minutes a week i have all the dvd box sets also "lost Room" anyone else into that one? | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/28/2008 5:45:25 AM | sci fi has never been the same since little known science fiction writer Ron L Hubbard started that scientolgy crap and fooled people into thinking it was a relgion while he raked in millions | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/28/2008 6:23:29 AM | | 2mass......apologies on behalf of all the sci fi fans here, we understand that the magic roundabout is more likely your interlectual limit | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 3/28/2008 7:20:46 AM | | another sci- fi fan here all the well known ones UFO, Battlestar, The Lost room Blakes7, Invasion, V, the invaders, time tunnel, Lost in Space, Taken, I use to like the Tomorrow people and Noahs Castle, Seaquest DSV,, another fav is a film called THX1138 the list is endless just love them all!!! | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/14/2008 7:34:13 PM | quantum leap rules.
as for star wars, just wait for the tv series (over 100 hour long episodes) released next year i think. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/15/2008 1:36:28 AM | | like sci fi among other films, but guess more biased towards sci fi, things like the dune series of books started it off :) | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/15/2008 3:51:47 AM | I love sci fi stuff and always have. The reason I don't list it separately on my profile is that it comes under TV/DVD/Films etc.
I've never seen anyone list Eastenders or Coronation Street on their profile. Or even just soap operas. Someone probably has somewhere though.
Star Wars was the big one for me and still is. Got all of Babylon 5 and Stargate on DVD too. The new Doctor Who and Torchwood are fantastic as well.
Lets not forget that it could be tomorrows future in some ways. Remember the communicators from the first Star Trek series..... well we all have mobile phones now don't we. | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/17/2008 9:43:55 AM | I must admit to Doctor Who being the best thing thats happened to me on a Saturday night lately......... | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/22/2008 1:05:56 PM | Yeah we all do, I love a good sci fi / fantasy movie - but as soon as we start talking sci fi we start to sound like a bunch of nerds.... 
ps Star Wars is better than star trek !!
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/22/2008 1:46:50 PM | The older I get, the more I appreciate the old back'n'white classics - "Earth vs the Flying Saucers" , "The Day The Earth Stood Still" , "The Thing" , "The Blob" , Quatermass etc
For the Star Wars lovers out there, have any of you seen the Kurosawa film "The Hidden Fortress"?
I sat there like some geeky kid (which lets face it, I still am) pointing out where Lucas got the characters and special effects from.
I've still got a soft spot for my childhood favs such as "Space:1999" , "The Black Hole" and I still get all soppy teared up at "Silent Running" but for modern day Sci-Fi I think Firefly is utterly made of awesome.
When Firefly came out I refused to watch it as I still grumpy with Joss, but then when the movie "Serenity" was coming out, I finally caved and watched the pilot. The next day I bought the boxset and had a massive marathon session. Damn that show was too good to have been cancelled :( | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/25/2008 4:11:17 PM | confession time...Ive seen star wars over 50 times...No joke...havent seen it in a while now...must dig out that video... | |
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| Where are all the sci-fi lovers?
Posted: 4/25/2008 4:16:57 PM | OP :
would like to form an SF singletons club
yes I would but we will have to have some sort of sexual initiation ceremony. Mainly you have sex with me. | |
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