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Would you like to recommend your best Science Fiction book, movie, or TV episodes?

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Vince Mctavern
Anara Sol
#21 - 2013-09-20 13:30:37 UTC
In a harsh universe where we're alone to rely on our own wits, imagination and blind luck to make our fortune and survive, I'm surprised nobody's suggested Joss Whedon's Firefly yet.

Seriously, every time I undock I hear that blessed refrain ("You can't take the sky from meeee...") and fancy myself an Independent Mal Reynold clone.
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-09-20 13:55:36 UTC
Books:
+ The Mindstar Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton
+ The Brainships books by Anne McCaffrey (My personal favourites are "The Ship who Searched" and "the City who Fought")
+ The Cassandra Kresnov novels by Joel Shepherd.
+ Basically anything and everything by Larry Niven, especially when co-authoring with Jerry Pournelle.
+ Transmetropolitan
+ The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
+ Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve


Movies/TV
+ Alien (Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, you know the one)
+ Firefly (you REALLY should know this one)
+ The Fifth Element (VERY Gallente)

Games
+ Deus Ex trilogy (yes, all three of them.)
+ Shadowrun
+ Half-Life trilogy

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders
Na Kahm
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2013-09-20 17:35:42 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kif_Strike_Back

The Chanur novels by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherry

John 17 : 23
Vorll Minaaran
Centre Of Attention
#24 - 2013-09-20 23:24:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Vorll Minaaran
Babylon 5 TV series, must see everyone interested in Sci-Fi. :)
Great characters, great storyline, simply perfect sci-fi series.
Celeste Taylor
Ruby Dynasty
#25 - 2013-09-20 23:53:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Celeste Taylor
Hyperion is my favorite too and I really like this book. I own the Easton Press leather edition as well as the numbered Subterranean Press along with the compiled Hyperion Cantos and a few other copies around.

I can go on for hours about my favorites, but when it comes to Eve one series comes to mind. Bujold's Vorkosigan/Wormhole books are the most like Eve that I can think of, especially since she has on multiple occasions stated she created a universe without sentient alien life since we through genetic modification will become our own aliens.

We will miss you Ian Banks and remember folks TANSTAFL.
DheCuir
Rock Transport Inc
#26 - 2013-09-21 07:25:16 UTC
A an avid SF reader I'll add a few books (series), some already mentioned.



I could go on and on, but I'll save some books and series for other people's suggestions ;)

Happy reading!!
unimatrix0030
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2013-09-21 08:30:05 UTC
Also check out any books from David Brin, especialy the uplift series!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brin

No local in null sec would fix everything!
Noroswen
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2013-09-21 08:38:30 UTC
You are not going to go wrong with any of the above suggestions.

I will also throw out David Webber's Honor Harrington Series.

Also, a guilty pleasure of mine, The Caiphas Cain Novels by Sandy Mitchel
Athelas Loraiel
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#29 - 2013-09-21 20:51:36 UTC
Why don't you CCP go and make a movie with Dust and Eve pilots as protagonist, like battle of Caldari prime combined with Amarrian invasion of somewhere, or amarrian tournament of choosing a new Empress etc.

Those movies would be fantastic....
Nerriana
Avanto
Hole Control
#30 - 2013-09-22 15:35:16 UTC
Iain M. Banks' Culture-series is absolutely recommended, as someone mentioned earlier. Hannu Rajaniemi has also put out couple absolute recommendations: The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince.

Athelas Loraiel wrote:
Why don't you CCP go and make a movie with Dust and Eve pilots as protagonist, like battle of Caldari prime combined with Amarrian invasion of somewhere, or amarrian tournament of choosing a new Empress etc.

Those movies would be fantastic....


I'd be cheaper: A CGI-animated series chronicling the story of a pod pilot fresh out of academy, trying to simply survive and make little money. Soon, however, the rookie gets involved deeper in something, does a tour in low- and/or Nullsec while learning the ropes and making money, possibly a stint in Faction Warfare and so on. Culminating in some big story arc of heroic proportions (saving CONCORD project, repelling (or instigating) big FW/Nullsec invasionor something). Big Empire politics should also be on background and possibly influencing the story (eg. Tibus Heth making a speech in broadcast and political debate in Gallente Senate).

Mix liberally with regular crewmembers (naturally interacted only on stations or via holoprojection), their stories and fates (my own interpretation about crew: capsuleer ships have lifepods for crew, but casualties are still awful) and the yawning chasm between capsuleer and his crew.
WREV Ofsharrow
Temple Ulterior Speculative Holdings Ltd.
#31 - 2013-09-22 18:28:30 UTC
No need to glance at the bookshelf for this one, Ian M. Banks "Culture Novels" , Alastair Reynolds "Revelation Space" Space Opera's, and some older stuff like (for Halo fans) Larry Nivens "Ringworld" , Alfred Bester 's "The Decievers" and "Tiger Tiger" and also Julian May's "Many Coloured Land" Trilogy , so many out there Heinlien, Asimov, Clarke, but as far as stuff that puts me in mind of EVE then the first two authors, Banks and Reynolds. Shocked
Celeste Taylor
Ruby Dynasty
#32 - 2013-09-22 21:20:15 UTC
WREV Ofsharrow wrote:
No need to glance at the bookshelf for this one, Ian M. Banks "Culture Novels" , Alastair Reynolds "Revelation Space" Space Opera's, and some older stuff like (for Halo fans) Larry Nivens "Ringworld" , Alfred Bester 's "The Decievers" and "Tiger Tiger" and also Julian May's "Many Coloured Land" Trilogy , so many out there Heinlien, Asimov, Clarke, but as far as stuff that puts me in mind of EVE then the first two authors, Banks and Reynolds. Shocked


Just wanted to point out that you might have to look for Tiger Tiger under the title The Stars My Destination. This is indeed a great book about survival, and JMS even named a telepath in Babylon 5 Alfred Bester after the author. There is something about Eve that feels like the current batch of British/Scottish authors, then again there are so many good ones out there. I also enjoyed Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series. I read them as they were being released in the US, which oddly enough I believe was in a different order from the UK release.
Sonoros Rahl
Gnomes Gone Bad
Just let it happen
#33 - 2013-09-22 22:19:13 UTC
"...in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war."

Love the W40K books...

I agree that eisenhorn was awsome.... enjoyed ultramarine too.

Asimov foundation series is still up there...
Da7id Huren
EVE University
Ivy League
#34 - 2013-09-22 23:01:53 UTC
Neuromancer, William Gibson, top of list for changing, well, everything.

Herbert's Dune and Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land were life changers, but then I'm old and recall the 60s. Well, portions at least . . .

Phil **** 60s & 70s, esp. Martian Timeslip, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, Man in the High Castle.

Slanislaw Lem's Pirx the Pilot novels should not be neglected.

Glad to agree with several who have mentioned Iain M. Bank's Culture series. This guy can write.

Just finished MaddAddam, third and looks to be final Oryx & Crake installment from Margaret Atwood. Pretty darn good throughout.

And, if we accept a slightly broadened definition of scifi, then Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is way up there.

In fairness to the concept itself, Wells' Things to Come, the very young Ms. Shelley's Frankenstein, St. John's Revelation.
Yaturi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2013-09-23 12:20:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Yaturi
In terms of novels, I have only read a couple paper versions. I'm more of a audio/visual oriented person. So recently, I listened to the audio book of Hyperion and found it to be very intriguing.

It really is 'full of wonders' as Thanos put it on the first page. Torch ships, tree ships, oceanic planets, artificial intelligence, a second species of human beings, spies, space battles, it is truly an amazing story.

As for tv or movie, its hard to find a space faring anime I wont watch.

Good examples :
Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Legend of Galactic Heroes (huge fleet battles), etc.
ISD Rontea
ISD STAR
ISD Alliance
#36 - 2013-09-23 16:50:51 UTC
Books:
1. Edmond Moore Hamilton
  • Kaldar, World of Antares[/list]
  • Snake Men of Kaldar
  • The Star Kings
  • The Star Hunters
  • Return to the Stars

    • 2. Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Orsinian Tales
  • The Earthsea Trilogy
  • Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea

    • 3. William H. Keith
  • Decision at Thunder Rift
  • Mercenary’s Star
  • The Price of Glory

    • 4. Kir Bulychev
  • "Посёлок" (original name). Translate to english by John H. Costello with name "Those Who Survive"

    • Movie:
    [b]The Matrix. Trilogy
    [b]Minority Report
    [b]Equilibrium
    [b]Ghost in the Shell
    [b]Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

    Games:
    EVE Online Lol
    Dead Space 1, 2, 3.

    ISD Rontea

    ISD STAR Executive

    Волонтёр группы по взаимодействию с игроками

    Interstellar Services Department
    Kira Hhallas
    Very Drunken Eve Flying Instructors
    Brotherhood Of Silent Space
    #37 - 2013-09-26 11:37:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Kira Hhallas
    Book i can tell, they are worth to read in German.

    Andreas Brandhorst.

    Diamant
    Metamorph
    Der Zeitkrieg

    Feuerträume
    Feuervögel
    Feuerstürme

    Das Artefakt
    DIe Kinder der Ewigkeit

    John Scalzi

    Krieg der Klone
    Die Geisterbrigade
    Die Letze Kolonie
    Der Wilde Planet
    Androiden Träume

    Allan Cole

    Die Sten Chroniken; 10 Romane

    Michael McCollum

    Der Antares Krieg
    Sternenfeuer
    Sternenfall
    Die Segel von Tau Ceti
    Lebenssonden

    Wing Commander Romane

    Die Befreier
    Der Hinterhalt
    Die Geheimflotte
    Das Herz des Tiger
    Der Preis der Freiheit
    Die Bedrohung
    Das Buch zum Film

    James White

    Orbit Hosbital Romane.

    William Gibson

    Neuromancer
    BioChips
    Mona Lisa Overdrive

    Philip K. ****

    BladeRunner

    Robert A Heinlein

    StarShiptroopers

    Ben Bova

    Mars; Venus; Jupiter; Saturn; Die Kolonie, die Rückkehr zum Mars
    Die Dunklen Wüsten des Titans, Asteroidenfeuer; Asteroidenkrieg, AsterodidenSurm.

    Isaac Assimov:

    Fundation / Foundation und Imperium/ Secon Foundation / Frühe Foundation Trillogie.... etc etc

    And more books from ShadowRun and BattleTech .....
    Yes I have read many books before I found EVE Online :-P

    Edit: I forgot one....

    Utopia

    Kira Hhallas - Austrian EvE Community - ingame =Österreich= - StoryPage - https://oneshotstorys.wordpress.com/ -

    Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare
    Torquemada DeSade
    Audeat Scire Velle Taceretis
    #38 - 2013-09-26 12:49:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Torquemada DeSade
    Books:
    Starship Troopers
    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
    The Vorkosigan series
    Most books by Ray Bradbury
    Any Philip K. ****
    Any Stephen Bachman
    and of course The Lensman Series by E.E.Doc Smith

    Movies:
    Bladerunner
    Alien
    The original Starwars Trilogy

    As for TV:
    Doctor Who ( from the first Doctor onwards)
    Red Dwarf
    Farscape
    Lexx (Except the last season)

    "Everything in life has either a price or a cost. A price is something you get, a cost is something you lose." Miles Vorkosigan.
    Nactor
    Viziam
    Amarr Empire
    #39 - 2013-09-26 19:27:35 UTC
    So many good reads in here already, sadly Iain M. Banks died, so no more Culture novels :(

    Maybe add:

    Peter F. Hamilton : Commonwealth Saga
    - its set before The Void books .)

    Richard K. Morgan : Takeshi Kovacs novels
    - hard stuff

    Tad Williams : Otherland books
    - cyberspace in a different way

    And :
    Perry Rhodan !
    - THE pulp booklet format SciFi, with (more or less) ongoing storry and different writers.
    Desmond Robinson
    The Scope
    Gallente Federation
    #40 - 2013-09-28 03:41:35 UTC
    Cat Harkness wrote:
    All suggestions here are very good but....

    There is only ONE set of Science Fiction books you Can Not Miss Reading!

    The Foundation Series By Isaac Asimov.



    Absolutely! The pinnacle work by the grand master of Science Fiction.. could not agree more!