Seems like we are blessed on the org with plenty of fiction/fantasy/sci-fi fans.

I take that to include all types of popular stories such as;

• Star Wars
• True Blood
• Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter
• Star Trek
• Marvel (Spiderman/Hulk/Captain America/et.al.)

What are your favorite stories that you would recommend for others to get into?

Star Wars is my #1 choice.

DUNE is my #2 choice. Anyone into sci-fi/fantasy MUST read DUNE.

Ender's game is bing made into a motion picture as we speak.

I'm rather excited.

I was obsessed with the series back in the early 90s.

imago said:

Ender's game is bing made into a motion picture as we speak.

I'm rather excited.

I was obsessed with the series back in the early 90s.

Im excited about it too

They're not science fiction in the conventional sense, but they are and always shall be my favorites. The Parables, The Patternist and Lilith's Brood series.

TV wise, though they're not popular here, I don't really care, I love the SG series, all of them.

Oh yeah, and Star Trek, but that's a given.

omg, I've watched ST 2009, and ST III back to back this weekend and that "I have been and always shall be your friend" line is currently lodged in my subconscious right now, I have used similar phrasings a few times this week already.

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PurpleJedi said:

DUNE is my #2 choice. Anyone into sci-fi/fantasy MUST read DUNE.

at the altar of Frank Herbert.

All six of the original "Dune Chronicles" are MUST READ for any sci-fi fan. This one's my fav:

I am currently reading it for the 1,333,444,555,000th time.

ARock said:

I went through a Philip K fixation in my early twenties and inhaled about a dozen of his books. I recently picked up a collection of four of his novels from the sixties (including Do Androids...) and have ordered another collection of five of his novels from the 60s/70s. I haven't got to Androids yet, but I have read The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (both were re-reads, though it had been long enough that I only had vague memories of them) and greatly enjoyed both of them. However, I did find both books kinda lacked a pay-off, a really solid resolution, and that's something I always seemed to find lacking in his books.

Apparently a BBC tv adaptation of Man in the High Castle was commissioned some time ago, but I can't find any recent news on it, so perhaps it's been shelved.

Books or movies? Comics?

Well I like a bunch of fantasy/sci-fic/fiiction

Well i like Japanese folkore--Obake(monters) stories.

there is kind of thing i call japanese magical realism in which reality and fantasy mix--e.g. Boogiepop Phantom, Banana Yoshimoto, DURARARA,

I like renaissance/middle ages set fantasy---Lynn Flewelling, Lackey, Tolkien, Etc.

Magical Realism---Gabriel Gael Garcia, etc.

for Science Fiction---I like Dystopia-My favorite of this genre has to be Brave New World By Huxley, Blade Runner, Etc.

i also like this dark type of fantasy---Brothers Grimm, Carmilla,Le Fanu, etc.

The "Mass Effect" Storyline...[@ least from the first two games. I have to play part 3 to know for sure how deep my love for it is...]

StonedImmaculate said:

PurpleJedi said:

DUNE is my #2 choice. Anyone into sci-fi/fantasy MUST read DUNE.

at the altar of Frank Herbert.

All six of the original "Dune Chronicles" are MUST READ for any sci-fi fan. This one's my fav:

I am currently reading it for the 1,333,444,555,000th time.

I read everything chronologically from DUNE thru to Sandworms of Dune.

I'm having trouble going "back in time" to read The Butlerian Jihad, House Corrino, et.al.. I just can't wrap my head around it, knowing in advance how it all "ends".

too many to list! brb

Star Wars: 6 movies + videogames + comics + Expanded Universe (TOR sucks, though)

Alien: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 (edited version), Predator, Alien vs Predator, Prometheus?? (maybe)

Mass Effect videogame trilogy

Resident Evil videogame saga: it's survival horror, yes, but it's also sci-fi/science and even fantasy (part IV)

Terminator saga

The Matrix saga (though I heavily edited parts 2 and 3, i can't watch the original versions anymore)

Jurassic Park (1, Lost World and III heavily edited, the original novel, videogame Project Genesis)

Lord of the Rings (movies, the books, and a couple of videogames)

X-Men (movies, comics)

Spider-Man (comics)

Hulk (comics)

Batman (movies, comics)

Superman (vintage comics, movies 1 and 2, and hopefully Man of Steel)

Prince (Graffiti Bridge, Rainbow Children)

Tittypants said:

The "Mass Effect" Storyline...[@ least from the first two games. I have to play part 3 to know for sure how deep my love for it is...]

part 1 was good, but it felt like a 2003 RPG game with 2008 graphics, and suitable for kids (despite the infamous sex scene)

part 2 (2010) is when the developers finally let things run wild: more sex, more violence, more action, better dialogue (overall), improved gameplay/weaponry, more horror, deeper/creepier sci-fi, etc, no wonder why it was +18

I still have to play part III because EA is a money-obsessed company, so I know they will release an improved/bug-free/additional content re-release version soon enough, lol

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I once had this great collection of science fiction stories when I was a kid. I've lately been searching for it, but no luck. Three of the stories in the book were about:

1. A guy that's like James Bond, who fights an organization named S.P.I.D.E.R. One of the subplots is that he guesses all the time what "S.P.I.D.E.R." means but he's never right. As I recall, he captures S.P.I.D.E.R.'s top agent, a beautiful female. He has to kill her, and the book insinuates that he basically boinked her to death. I was young when I read this so maybe I didn't understand what the phrase "He killed her the only way he knew how, and it took a week" meant.

2. This family is riding down the future highway in their futuristic hover car. Lots of thugs on the highway like to have hover car battles to the death, but you don't have to participate in them unless you want to. However, some thug forces the father into a battle, which the father wins by the unorthodox method of throwing his helmet out of the window, thus causing the thug's hover car to crash and kill him. Rather than winning him and his family respite from the thugs, it turns out they all want to fight him now.

3. I think this story was in the book, too. Some dude and his family are captured by a space alien who loves chess. He makes the dude use his family as chess pieces in a game for their lives. Turns out the dude is a master chess player, but makes one move that costs him his son. The space alien is all excited about capturing the son, because now he can kill the kid. The family is crying, the dad dude is like all "What did I do?!?" but it turns out that by capturing the boy, the space alien got trapped into a checkmate. The space alien is so impressed that he lets everyone go.

There were other stories in it too but I can't remember what they were about.

If you know what this book was, or even who wrote any of these classic and timeless stories, please let me know.

JoeTyler said:

Star Wars: 6 movies + videogames + comics + Expanded Universe (TOR sucks, though)

Alien: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 (edited version), Predator, Alien vs Predator, Prometheus?? (maybe)

Mass Effect videogame trilogy

Resident Evil videogame saga: it's survival horror, yes, but it's also sci-fi/science and even fantasy (part IV)

Terminator saga

The Matrix saga (though I heavily edited parts 2 and 3, i can't watch the original versions anymore)

Jurassic Park (1, Lost World and III heavily edited, the original novel, videogame Project Genesis)

Lord of the Rings (movies, the books, and a couple of videogames)

X-Men (movies, comics)

Spider-Man (comics)

Hulk (comics)

Batman (movies, comics)

Superman (vintage comics, movies 1 and 2, and hopefully Man of Steel)

Prince (Graffiti Bridge, Rainbow Children)

Currently reading The Hobbit for the upteenth time. Saw the trailer . . . .

So I'll read all four books now, and maybe again before the movie opens.