science fiction

We are watching a mini-series (originally released in the late 1990s) about an alien vs. alien battle that takes place over Scotland, and of course the Earth gets involved in it. I thought it was interesting that the level-headed Squadron Leader (played by Phyllis Logan) is really painted as a...

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I just finished reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. I had heard a lot of people mention this book, and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Given that I’m a huge science fiction fan, I figured that it would make for a great read. Wow. What a huge disappointment. If I had just picked...

Hello there. I've been looking for good books in my two favourite genres, Fantasy and Science Fiction, ever since I finished A Feast for Crows. I've been floundering between various short books for a few months now, and I want a weighty series to get my teeth into. The problem is that most of...

I read an original printing of Childhood's End (1953, Arthur C. Clarke) several years ago. One of the things that caught my eye was the first attempted moon landing (in the book) in 1973. Wikipedia says the book's first chapter was revised in 1990 to make it less anachronistic. Things...

Bit of a rant this, but hopefully it will start an interesting ding-dong. Speaking as a great and long-time fan of the genre, I’ve just got to know – why are so many of us such incredible dorks? How did such an enormous flock of socially underdeveloped, borderline autists come to congregate...

Whats your favorite Sf or fantasy book or books. Why? Do you hate any of them? Why? (I loathe Harry Potter, but then again...) What do you think of Gene Wolf, who's sort of a Christian?

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/0338210 Discussion thread has the usual CT drek being posted.

Some friends and I started a thread on another website about "What Separates Hard Science-Fiction From Space Opera?" "Hard" SF adheres to the known laws of physics, and merely extrapolates on what we already know. SF "softens" when one progressively adds gimmicks or plot devices that violate...

I really enjoyed Animal Planet's "The Future is Wild," a speculative show about what species might evolve in the future. I also liked a book called After Man, which is also a projection of creatures that could evolve from species that exist today. Do you know any of any other works of...

I wasn't able to figure out from JRs short comment about the old movie Capricorn One whether he was agin it or not. I thought it was decent science fiction - much more decent than you would expect, given the cast. That moment when the reentering spacecraft goes kablooie and the astronauts look...

Hello, all. I've entered one of my least favorite periods - that awful time between novels when I try to decide what to read next. (Funny thing - when I was a child, I never had this problem; I just devoured the next available thing. But now I can spend more time trying to find the "right" book...

The professor I have for Technical writing (That's memos, reports, instructions and so on) mentioned to me that is nephew is reading Ursula K. LeGuin, and he asked me to recommend some Sci-Fi books after we discussed the genre. He asked to send him an email with a short list. He's an educated...

check out the hugo nominees for this years best novel versus those from the retro section Now the only book in that list I have even heard of or read is Ilium. Ilium is a fantastic novel. However, its suffers from "milked epic" disease. Its the first of a two volume set and the author is...

...I read a long time ago. The title and author escape me. It was about this guy that had a robot, and every time the robot got overheated it would go all twitchy and kill someone. He had to keep moving from colony to colony because of it. I don't think it was Asimov, but not at all sure. Ring...