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What Makes Great Science Fiction?
cheesethegreat writes "Have you ever noticed how everyone breaks down into a near-religious frenzy when the topic of the "best" science fiction universe comes up? Everyone has a favorite universe, be it the Foundation Series by Asimov, or the classic Star Wars trilogy. So tell Slashdot what your favorite is, and what the most important part of a science fiction universe is to you."
Nubile female alien sex addicts, who are genetically engineered to please men at the drop of a hat.
Battlefield Earth was the best science fiction movie ever!!!!!!!! Man... Where else can you find a bunch of natives who learn how to fly jets in under 42 hours... all by reading...
I tell you... nothing to get better than that...
And with that whacky scientoligist alien guy... it's excellent! You should all go rent it right now!
EOS, End of Sarcasm
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
The Star Trek franchise is by far the best Sci-Fi around, past present and probably future. If you dweebs actually prefer Star Wars or the faggoty Dr. Who crap, knock yourselves out. But I ask you to ponder this: What does God need with a starship!?!?
Are you crazy? Aren't you forgetting something, like, oh...
FUCKIN' STAR TREK!?!
Enterprise rocks my world like Mexican food for breakfast. Everything else is just pretenders to the throne.
Love Always,
Cobalt
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
Ok. Here is the thing with Farscape:
They are Muppets
I know people are going to go, "wawwawaa, it's the plot and character development". This is what I heard in my mind every time a TV ad for Farcescape came on, "Kermy, change the channel and get me some more food!!!!"
I personally would much rather see bad blue/green screen and poor CG/Real actor interaction then some lame assed Jim Hanson leftover (and to be honest the same goes for an Ewok)
Gay Deceiver - Take us home!
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
Ursula K LeGuinn wow....
She is amazing, I am surprised nobody mentioned her.
I like most the stuff other people mentioned, here are some people they left out i think.
Harlan Ellison (he is the king!)
Sheri S Tepper
people should also remember that you should read for your own enjoyment. if a novel is complete trash but you enjoyed reading it who cares if all the characters are one dimensional and the plot tired, it was fun.
Just combining all of the A-list--Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5; Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, Judge Dredd and the DC and Marvel universes would be a monumental gordian knot pain in the ass. I'd hate to be the poor sucker stuck with the job of making that timeline consistant. Then add in the major Anime: Akira, Cowboy Bebop, The Lovely Angels (old and new school); Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, Bubblegum Crisis (classic and 2040), Trigun, Ghost In The Shell--oh Lord, the Gundamverse. All of it.
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Ah. .
Can we get Steven Hawking on this? Maybe he and Harry Turtledove can put something together, if they've got a spare millenium or so.
I get mod'd down as having an 'overrated' opinion? :)
:) Keep it coming...I can take it.
That must mean my opinion's are routinely of such high value that they now function as a commodity. Wow..I'm flattered!
That's rich..... I must have really hit a socio-political nerve to be dragged out into the street and beaten over being so bold as to state my opinion when asked. I'd hate to see what kind of mod I'd incur if I really sounded off...this place never ceases to provide unadulterated humor
Gay Deceiver - Bounce!!
i don't read slashdot anymore.
The best "science fiction universe" ever has got to be Scientology (TM). Its inventor, L. Ron Hubbard, took the wild and crazy magikal ideas of Aliester Crowley and mixed them up with the wild and crazy space opera of E.E. "Doc" Smith and came up with something that was more than a mere universe, it was a business model disguised as a religion!! And the pestelential inhabitants of that business-in-clerical drag universe are still a menace to we civilized citizens of earth!
Or to paraphrase Douglas Adams, as a fun party trick, to transport every molecule in the hostess' undergarments 3 feet to the right...
Freedom: "I won't!"