Read this:


Blood Music by Greg Bear. So good.

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I can't recommend any sci fi as I don't read most of it, but if you're looking for a good read and don't mind a lot of pages, and are looking for the same kind of action/adventure you find in sci fi one classic that I read least year that blew me away was Shogun by James Clavelle. Awesome book, so much so, I'm working thru his entire collection right now.

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Originally posted by Sly_Guy I can't recommend any sci fi as I don't read most of it, but if you're looking for a good read and don't mind a lot of pages, and are looking for the same kind of action/adventure you find in sci fi one classic that I read least year that blew me away was Shogun by James Clavelle. Awesome book, so much so, I'm working thru his entire collection right now.

lol. I am just rereading Shogun right now...

For the 5th time ;p

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

Here's the summary:

Synopsis
Vergil Ulam was the genius behind biologic. The restructuring of cells. Cells that can think. When Genetron canceled the project, Vergil smuggled his life's work out of the lab the only way he knew how. He injected himself with them.

At first, the effects of the intelligent lymphocytes were small miracles. His eyesight, his overall health, even his sex life, improved.

But now, something strange is happening. Vergil's concocted cells are capable of forming complex organisms and eventually whole societies in his blood and body. He carries a universe within himself. A universe of cells. Intelligent cells. And they think it's time for a change...


http://www.fantafiction.com/authors/book.asp?ID=410

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interesting.

will have to keep a look out

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sometimes, it ain't a good thing to be able to type fast... here's my novel!

Hey man! I LOVE sci-fi. It keeps me going. Ready for a buncha reading?? lol.

Tv:

Stargate SG1 - Doesn't do anything for you? have you tried watching from episode 1 season 1 with the dvd series? You CAN'T grab an episode here or there with this show. You must watch it from the movie to episode one, season 1 and on. It is my favourite series, hands down; beyond Neon Genesis Evangelion and Full Metal Alchemist. I just picked up season 1 again (lost my copy). This is the ONLY series I've bought at the store, all 10 seasons. w00t. I rule, and I'm important as a result.

Farscaype - Get over the puppets and you'll love this series. Simply amazing. Love the humour. Jim Henson productions... really really cool concepts. (Love the leviathan baby 'Talon'...war leviathan. COOL)

Star Trek: Voyager - What they do with the holodecks and photonics - wow. some seriously CREATIVE writing on this show. Female captains aside (ohhhh, look at the sexist! (points at self)).

Leap just reminded me about Fire fly. Only 12 episodes, but MAN, what a great series. Jos Whedon--amazing writer. He did Buffy, and a zillion comic books (POWERS, anyone?) Wicked writing. Buy the series, watch it, then watch the movie, Serenity. *love* Once a browncoat, always a browncoat.

Books:

Jon Jon - wow. That's one of my favourite books. I've read it three times. Seriously a great book. So is SHADOW OF THE HEGEMON. Which is bean's perspective on the same events. Amazing. Salam. (Orson Scott Card is writing for comic books now too eh? I believe he wrote the Iron Man House of M series for Marvel).





Nothing like the movie. Amazing amazing book. Seriously brilliant take on war and how society would be broken down to reorganize for war (love how he says grunts would be men, and women would fly the drop ships. phenomenal take on the human condition at war. Who the hell gave those dudes permission to masacre the book with that crappy movie? jeeze.


lastly, one of the best series I have ever read. Reading it now to my kiddo--very very creative stuff:



The nice thing, this thing is too old to be copy protected by copywrite laws, (written in 1911, i think) so here's the book:

w00t!!! Click here for link to text!

Seriously. Read that shiznit (easy read!! read one book in the series a week, easily). Amazing that dude was living in the 1800s when he wrote it. AMAZING! If anyone else has read this serieee.... let me know. Haven't found anyone else who has read the series..but it is just SO good. Narrative, first person story telling. SWEET.

Lastly, bummer about all the hype, but pick yourself up a copy of The Golden Compass by written by Brit Philip Pullman in 1995. As I read the three books in the series, I said to leap 'i can't believe this is intended for teens...these books are AWESOME." -- I couldn't find the books in the sci-fiction area, they were in 'younge adult.' Great books, amazing concepts, and no, i didn't read anything into it about Philip Pullman destroying the church institutions. I read it as a great story. Period. Two thumbs up.

There's something to work with man...if you wanna discuss in more detail, PM me. Yeah, I'm a nut for this stuff..but I'm very picky, like you.

Cheers!

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The Machine Stops by E.M Forster

Read me here

The complete short story.

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Originally posted by EvilTree only morons like Voy

Don't give me any of your elitist nerd crap!

Dude, sif you wouldn't hit B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) or Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan)...

Seems you would prefer Doctor Beverly Crusher bahaha.

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Originally posted by Endlesswave The Machine Stops by E.M Forster Read me here The complete short story.

Just wrote a paper on that and the "Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin a few weeks back

"Cold Equations" is one of the definitive SF short stories.

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Why do all sci-fi stories portray the people as very against wearing clothes? Regardless of how radical the sci-fi planet in the story is, they all portray them as having a toasty run-around-in-bikinis climate. I find that kind of funny. Do nerds masturbate to these stories or what? What's with the severe lack of "cold" climates?

Edit: even in "The Cold Equations", which I would have assumed to have cold weather once in a while, the cover art is still:

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Originally posted by eRRaTiK Don't give me any of your elitist nerd crap! Dude, sif you wouldn't hit B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) or Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan)... Seems you would prefer Doctor Beverly Crusher bahaha.

No thanks. Jeri Ryan doesn't do anything for me, and Roxanne Dawson probably beats up men

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Why do all sci-fi stories portray the people as very against wearing clothes? Regardless of how radical the sci-fi planet in the story is, they all portray them as having a toasty run-around-in-bikinis climate. I find that kind of funny. Do nerds masturbate to these stories or what? What's with the severe lack of "cold" climates? Edit: even in "The Cold Equations", which I would have assumed to have cold weather once in a while, the cover art is still:

Cover means nothing. It's just there to catch a potential buyer's eye. And what is the best way to catch someone's eye, considering demographics of most sci fi/fantasy readers? Either something blowing up, or skimpy cladded women.

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Doesn't it look bad on the sci-fi writers' behalf then? That they must stoop to the same tactics as MAXIM and STUFF in order to entice readers? As opposed to writers of detective novels, horror novels, espionage novels, war novels, etc etc who somehow sell books without appealing to the same demographic that reaches for MAXIM on the news stands. I imagine that if what you're saying is true, then sci-fi writers must get the same amount of respect in the writers' circles as the women who write romance novels (whose entire plot consists of stringing one sex scene to the next).

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