science_fiction sleep deprived misstree i had a lit class on scifi in community college... scifi is an excellent mirror of humanity, outting people in unfamiliar situations to show how humans react by contrast... but i think scifi is the only literary medium that really highlights it, unfortunately... clockwork orange, 1984, cat's cradle, scifi is the perfect vehicle for presenting new ideas. 010129 ... god HARLAN ELLISON HARLAN ELLISON alone against tomorrow approaching oblivion deathbird stories strange wine 010129 ... pilgrim Harlan, like Phillip K. Dick Is a dark futurist. I like them both, As I like Halloween; In a Horrorshow kind of Way. Larry Niven, and Spider Robinson Paint from a lighter, More optimistic pallet. 010130 ... silentbob orson scott card ray fucking bradbury stephen king can do things, too 010130 ... j_blue stephen_king (and ann_rice) are too wordy and descriptive for my taste they will spend pages describing somthing, so that by the time i get to the end, i have forgotten the beginning of it i have a problem visualizing mentally, and i think thats why i cant keep their mental images in their entirety consiquently, i get bored with the description while i am reading it what pleases me about sci fi the most, is how, based on relatively small amounts of detail, one is left to extrapolate and/or interpolate new information in order to make predictions i love predicting the end 010130 ... silentbob I agree with you about anne rice and stephen king. they get really descriptive and it loses me, too. it's realy easy for me to just not even read it..i just kind of go over the words and think aboutsomething else. i miss a lot. it's easy to. But i still love both of them. I dislike predicting the end though. i like to be surprised with the ending, or having it possible to go anywhere. i can't watch movies with my mom and sister anymore. they'll break apart the whole movie... "Oh, i suppose he'll get into an accident now..." and then he does. it really takes away. 010130 ... j_blue its fun to be right i guess but i see your point i can no longer watch tv or movies for that reason i use it alot though, especially when playing stratejy games i try to guess secrets by thinking what the author might have been thinking whats cool is media where the author is aware that someone is trying to predict the ending, and you have to take that into account when trying to predict it becomes very cat and mouse 010130 ... space_tenedril Isaac_Asimov. 010423 ... space_tenedril (again) is anyone else willing to admit that they watched Star_Trek the next generation? that's the only one i've ever really liked. the first one is hillarious, all the others just bored me. but the next generation was there for me like a sweet little sci-fi friend. and there was data. who wouldn't love an android on a quest for his emotions? 010423 ... dB I'll admit that I still watch Star Trek. Even Voyager nd DS9 I still follow. Basically it's either that or watch one of these inane fucking "Real World" programes, or one of those "Here are 10 people forced to live on an island and really screw each other over. Let's watch and see who snaps first because this is our idea of entertainment". Star Trek is the only way I jan justify spending $2000 on my TV, and that's the only reason I watch TV, to justify buying the damn thing. But then again I have spent about the same amount in book shops this year. Damn. I gotta stop wasting all this money. 010423 ... space_tenedril yay!!! i knew there'd be at least someone out there who's a fellow trekkie!!! 010424 ... dB Hey I'm not a Trekkie. Just because I've watched nearly all the tV shows, and all the movies and own a few books and bought all the movies on video... ohshit. Damn 010425 ... theres__a__birdmad_on___the_wing i loved the trek movies (at least the even numbered ones, wrath of khan, voyage home, undiscovered country, first contact) I lovred the line from MST3K:The Movie "shatner...no shatner....no snatner....no guys, he's not in this one, we're safe" he's not in this one, we're safe 010425 ... namae Nobody's mentioned Robert Heinlein yet, but now that I think about it, there's probably a damned good reason for that (Incidentally, I read Stephen King _because_ he's so descriptive. Go figure) 010823 ... MisterFunkadelic even though he comes across as a bit pro-fascist i do still enjoy occasional doses of Heinlen. 010823 ... MisterFunkadelic this is also where i will donate my body after i die. I think many would not expect to hear such a thing from a man, but I can tell you without any hesitation or shame that since my divorce, Ben & Jerry's has been my crutch. My road to hell is being paved with Phish Food. 020204 ... 0of46 Robert Heinlein was an excellent writer for his time, I read several of his novels. My personal favorite was "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel". I liked that book so much that I left a $20 I-OWE-YOU with my name and address for the next person to read it. Of course, I checked it out from my school library, and, knowing my school, it probably won't ever get cashed..... 020911 ... Scarlet Photos Steven donalson. Kimstanley robinson (but not his mars boks - the orange county ones, and 'the memory of whiteness') So good. And I love star trek, wars, basically anythig refering to space in any way... 020912 ... god i prefer speculative fiction 030612 ... raze i probably loved the 1990s "outer limits" revival more than anyone else on this planet or any other. part of that might have been because of whatever strange shape my brain took as childhood gave way to adolescence, but i'm not so sure. i can still watch that stuff now, as a more wizened and cynical human being, and suspend my disbelief enough to say, "there but for the grace of gordon_downie go i." i mean, even the episode where tom arnold gets an android butler for his family is pretty solid. and we're talking about arnie thomas here. i say this as someone who's never watched a minute of "black mirror", though i know in my bones it would be right up my alley. s'pose i should remedy that while i still have some of my wits about me. 240507 what's it to you? who go blather from