What is your favorite SF story that is not Star Trek or Star Wars?

[johnbutcher]

I've just watched the original film for the thirteenth time. I still can't repeat the dialogue. how weird is that?

[johnbutcher]

However i cant do the same for 13th warrior. And i've seen that 20, or, more times.

[Echnaton]

Thanks for keeping this going.  I've been listening to audiobooks more lately and my library has many of them from the authors discussed here.

[smartcooky]

... still think that the original film of buffy was better than the series.

sloop.

Good lord! there are two of us?

We are talking about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" here right?

If so, well, I don't get it. For mine, shows like that, e.g. True Blood, Twilight etc, don't come under the classification "science fiction" simply because they have no content that could reasonably be called "science".



 

[smartcooky]

Incidentally, who has been watching "Extant" and what do we all think so far?

I have to say that the premise of an astronaut being sent into space (6500+km) on their own for 13 months doesn't quite ring true with me. That said, the story has been suspenseful and has moved along at a good clip so far.

[johnbutcher]

We are talking about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" here right?

If so, well, I don't get it. For mine, shows like that, e.g. True Blood, Twilight etc, don't come under the classification "science fiction" simply because they have no content that could reasonably be called "science".
[/quote]


Yes Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
True, no science content (although there has been a marginal case made arguing blood drinking to alleviate symptoms of porphyria as the basis of vampirism, I seem to remember)
Anyway, I grew up with SF being either, science or speculative, fiction. So sometimes I confuse the two.

sloop

[Glom]

I think the definition of sci-fi is material enjoyed by nerdss it that would include Buffy.

Of course enjoying material liked by nerds makes one a nerd, so that definition is a bit circular. Such a fallacy then brings us full circle to why we're here in the first place.

[RAF]

A few favorites off the top of my head....


Victory Unintentional an Asimov short about 3 non-humanoid robots and their exploration of Jupiter.

Have Space Suit - Will Travel a Heinlein Juvenile about the adventures of a boy and his space suit.

Yeah...HSSWT is for children, and I was a child when I first read it...

[RAF]

Incidentally, who has been watching "Extant" and what do we all think so far?

Couldn't "stomach" the premise, so I haven't watched it...I thought it had been cancelled.

[johnbutcher]

just watched the first two episodes of resurrection.
jury still out, but initial feeling is favourable.
however it was the same for lost and fringe and they went belly up pretty quickly.

[johnbutcher]

A few favorites off the top of my head....


Victory Unintentional an Asimov short about 3 non-humanoid robots and their exploration of Jupiter.

Have Space Suit - Will Travel a Heinlein Juvenile about the adventures of a boy and his space suit.

Yeah...HSSWT is for children, and I was a child when I first read it...

Victory Unintentional. I can still visualise the robot stirring the molten liquid in the crucible. Or am I channelling another story?

[Sus_pilot]

A few favorites off the top of my head....


Victory Unintentional an Asimov short about 3 non-humanoid robots and their exploration of Jupiter.

Have Space Suit - Will Travel a Heinlein Juvenile about the adventures of a boy and his space suit.

Yeah...HSSWT is for children, and I was a child when I first read it...

Victory Unintentional. I can still visualise the robot stirring the molten liquid in the crucible. Or am I channelling another story?

That's the one.

[johnbutcher]

A few favorites off the top of my head....


Victory Unintentional an Asimov short about 3 non-humanoid robots and their exploration of Jupiter.

Have Space Suit - Will Travel a Heinlein Juvenile about the adventures of a boy and his space suit.

Yeah...HSSWT is for children, and I was a child when I first read it...

Victory Unintentional. I can still visualise the robot stirring the molten liquid in the crucible. Or am I channelling another story?

That's the one.

Does anyone else see the strange grin on the robots face. Or is that just me?


Sloop

[Bob B.]

Yes Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I've never seen it.

[Echnaton]

Yes Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I've never seen it.

Me neither, making me the very odd one out in my family of Buffy fans and great readers of Buffy fan fiction.  Something I don't even want to know about.