Science Fiction
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Exploring science fiction.
Books
The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Edited by Peter Nicholls. Published by Doubleday.Multi-Media
Star Trek. No, I am not a trekkie and I don't go to conventions, but I'll watch any new stuff they make. I also admit to having seen just about every episode of Star Trek, Star Trek Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Enterprise, and the Star Trek movies. The best re-runs are from the classic series.-
A chart comparing starships from the classic series.
- StarTrek.com .
Writers
HG Wells. Works include: The Time Machine.Isaac Asimov. (American, 1920-1992) I have almost 3 dozen of his books (some non-fiction) and there are more books that I've borrowed from the library and returned. I especially like how he carried his story thread through a period of hundreds of years in over a dozen of his robot, empire, and foundation books. See also:
- Isaac Asimov [W]
- Robot Rules, OK? [anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/AbstractRobotRules.html] and
- Three Laws of Robotics [W]
Robert A. Heinlein. Works include: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and Friday.
Tom Godwin. Works include: The Cold Equations.
Movies
Alien series. Ripley explores motherhood, acid blood, guns, and survival. Alien directed in 1979 by Ridley Scott. Aliens directed in1986 by James Cameron. Alien 3 directed in 1992 by David Fincher. One other movie followed. Cast included Sigourney Weaver.Forbidden Planet (1956) . Robby the Robot, alien monsters, spaceships, damsels in distress, and a young Leslie Nielsen.
Matrix . "What is The Matrix?" Dude! Cast included Keanu Reeves.
Planet of the Apes series. Those ape masks are just so cool! Planet of the Apes directed in 1968 by Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast included Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall.
Star Wars series. "Use The Force Luke." I'm not a Star Wars groupie, but I'll watch any new stuff they make. I've got the usual gripes about Director George Lucas supporting the media money machine a little too much, instead of focusing on making good, deep, modern mythology. Directed by George Lucas.
- Star Wars (aka Star Wars IV: A New Hope) (1977) cast included Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Alec Guinness.
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Obi Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness) facing off with Darth Vader in Star Wars.
- Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) cast included Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Billy Dee Williams.
- Star Wars I: Phantom Menace (1999).
- StarWars.com.
- JediNet.com. For the fans, by the fans.
Zardoz (1974). Don't look it up! I've seen Vartox in Superman but I never knew it was in honor of Sean Connery's character.
TV
SciFi Channel. Three cheers to the SciFi Channel for supporting sci-fi and bringing it to cable television 24 hours a day.
Links
Here are links that lead to off-site pages about science fiction.
- Starship Dimension. Starships from different shows drawn to scale.
- Strange Words [StrangeWords.com]. 'Offering a large selection of used and rare science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction books, on the web since 1997. The Weird Bookshelf specializes in interesting, important, and unusual books for both the reader and collector.'
- TechNovelgy.com. 'Where science meets fiction'
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