Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
>>1310 Ah very well my good chaps. Should I grab a towel? I do hope booze pills work even better than lager as you see I can drink narry a thimble of the stuff.
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>>781 And the scalzi pack pwease?
Greetings Sci-fi enthusiasts. I recently discovered 7chan, and this is my favorite board so far. I would like to know, what are your favorite Science Fiction novels? I am trying to collect some of the best out there, and myself lean towards Cyberpunk and Dystopian Future, but I also love the Ender novels (most of them at least) and I loved Eric Nylund's Signal to Noise and A Signal Shattered. I've always wanted to get deep into Sci-fi, and I want to read the best. I'd also rather purchase all of the books, so no links to downloads please. So any and all, post a list of what you think are the best gifts to man and science fiction with the name of the book and the author, of course.
Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon Mostly just an action story, but a goddamn good one.
Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle
>>1784 see >>1138 The Ender series is by Orson Scott Card. A great series at that. I also enjoyed the Worthing Saga too. Also, why has no one mentioned Frank Herbert and Dune? Best book series I've ever read.
We've decided to keep you here for another 50 cycles!
Which was run by alien sharks. ALIENS WHICH RESEMBLED SHARKS!!
I read it twice willingly and I'm not even in the cult.
I just finished watching the movie because of this thread, everyone says it's so terrible, but I found it...entertaining, if not well made. So bad it's good, etc. It looks like it would have had potential if it wasn't implemented so poorly. It seems like they must have had to really compress things from the book.
Alright /sci/, I have a question for you; What is your opinion of fighter class starships? My friend and I have talks about this. He says that you should endeavor to have such advanced shields and weapons that fighters are unnecessary (his favorite ships are the Asgard battleships from SG-1). My thought is that fighters allow you to deliver boarding parties/payload to another starship, to defend shuttles that enter atmosphere or to attack ground positions with more precision then orbital bombardment. He brings up the point that human pilots could not react in time going those speeds, even with a computer assist, and that they would be a waste of lives/fuel/parts. TL;DR Are fighters useful/feasible?
Fighters have no place in real science fiction. The delta-V requirements make it inefficient and ineffective. During planetary engagement pinpoint bombardment can sufficiently sterilize the landing zone to make orbital insertion of fighters unnecessary, and once you have the LZ secured, dispatching of fighters from the ground becomes the preferred option because you sure as hell aren't getting them into orbit. So no, space fighters are not feasible or useful. Enjoy your space fantasy.
Don't we already have this thread?
The ONLY place "fighters" have on spacecraft is in the role of brown-water vessels for orbital combat or atmospheric insertion. Even then their usefulness is questionable.
If you had your own Space Ship what would you call it?
if a war ship: Cathedral Terra or Ass Tuner if a frigate (or whatever): Cetebos or Apothecary
>>1569 Heh, I like that. But most of you faggots have shitty names for ships, and fuck you all that just ripped them off from Halo or whateverthefuckbookorvideogameoranime Mine would be "Charitable Donations Collection". I'd be a space pirate, you'd be "donating" to the good cause of me paying off the 5 trillion credit mortgage on my ship.
James Cameron asks of you the eternal question: if you had to become a smurf kitty and re-enact a futuristic version of Custer's Last Stand just to do her in her hot smurf kitty ass, would you go through with it?
Be Ten feet tall and able to bench press a car, a stable of large flying/riding creatures, living in the great outdoors, and smurf kitty ass??? Hell yes!
All who answer yes are actually closet furries, whether or not they know it.
>>1859 given how dangerous pandora is GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR 20 YEARS LONG LIFESPAN
our last best hope
>>1766 - "Evolution" (trashy film but still) - 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel implies very non humanoid, turned themselves into cyborgs, then to energy beings) - District 9, vaguely human shaped but still extremely different. - Revelation Space universe - Uplift series - Command & Conquer, Tiberian series - Half-Life series (the only humanoids are human-alien crosses) - Crysis - System shock 2 (contentious)
So annnnnyways, back on the topic of B5: 1st half of season 2 plays on Sunday. Will be doing half-seasons through season 4 + all of the B5 movies.
So, I just noticed something. Is it me, or do most science fiction series dealing with many different races always have one race that is obsessed with honor and combat? Star Wars has the Mandalorians, Star Trek has the Klingons, Mass Effect has the Krogan.
>>1518 http://youtube.com/watch?v=rx4sOAt2EPM You can't really embed a video and post an image at the same time, can you?
ITT: lame tropes
>>1518 Most popular science fiction is less interested with realism and more interested with telling an interesting story. Having a race with shared characteristics or archetypes removes the problem of creating an extensive backstory for every individual character. Rather than having a human who has human motivations and a past influencing him to be drawn to combat/science/trade/etc., you can just say, "Oh, he's a Klingon/salarian/Volus/etc." It's a storytelling technique, the conversion of archetypes. Instead of an old man in a white beard or an immortal elf, it's an ancient noble alien species. None of these things are necessarily negative, in that they serve to further the story. If you were looking for realism in depictions of extraterrestrial life in futuristic fiction, you'd find 90% microorganisms, 8% algae, fungi, and plants, 1.999% non-sapient animals, and 0.001% intelligent animals--which we would probably never meet anyway given the sheer size of the galaxy. TL;DR: They're archetypes used by people who are more interested in telling a story than being rigidly correct in their science.
Dear anon the plague of space opera books has been in influx theese years. I feel wee need a thread, where a proposal and discussion of inovatve sci-fi books from the recent decade would lead readers to a richer future.
What's so bad about space opera? Shit space opera is shit, I'll give you that, but shit anything is shit. also, contributing: anything by Greg Egan
Peter F Hamilton. Loved his Night's Dawn trilogy. too bad after the last Void book is published he's planning on writing children's sci-fi.
>>1800 Over-saturation in any genre will cause a lower standard of acceptance and quality. I can only assume that's what they're talking about. Also Robert A. Heinlein especially his book "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"