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I'm more of a Star Wars girl myself. (FIRST THREE ONLY. THIS MUST BE ESTABLISHED)

I am PIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSEEEEEEEDDDDDD right now, thanks to David Weber. I am addicted as sin to Honor Harrington, and the next book isn't out yet. That is how bad my addiction runs. I don't know when the next book is out and I don't care. All that matters is that THE NEXT BOOK IS NOT OUT YET. Also, incoming war with the Solarian League, which in context is like Java going to war with the USA. But mostly I want my Honor fix and it is going to be a while.

The Stardoc series was also incredibly good, but the ending was very...um, confusing? Like the end of 2001 without the pretension. It involved time travel and children and the main character no longer existing, except she continues to exist and...yeah. Confusing to put it MILDLY.

I have never heard of any of the books or authors you mentioned and am now ashamed of it. I shall go punish myself. :))

As a good SF, I loved Stand on ZanzibarStand on Zanzibar. I've also read a lot of Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert. True masters of the genre. I also have to read Asimov Isaac because he is also a big name in this world.

I NEED to read Stand on Zanzibar. Mostly, because I am obsessed with the science exparament it is based on (Universe 25) and that book keeps coming up in my research.

Stardoc is awesome. Though I did want to bat Cherijo (the main character) across the room with a croquet mallet after about ten minutes. She had a pretty severe case of Plot Related Stupidity. ("Do my adopted family of warrior-pacifists have violent issues regarding a plan of mine? Let's go antagonize them, and the murderous lizard slavers too! Because it wouldn't be a Stardoc book if my big mouth didn't get me into trouble at least once!")

Asimov was good. Sadly I have not read much of his (bad Chelsea. No cookie) save for a whole bunch of really, REALLY awesome short stories.

When I was a kid I was in love with Stephen R. Donaldson's "Gap" series (I could not read Thomas Covenant. Mostly because I wanted to shoot the SOB six pages in). Now that I'm older, it disturbs me. I still like it, but let's say Donaldson had "issues" with women. The kind you get restraining orders for.

I think my favorite book "series" (they were all stand alones) were Anne McCaffrey's Brainship books. My favorite was The Ship Who Searched. The great debate, of course, is if the Dragonriders of Pern were sci-fi or fantasy. Do dragons count if they're genetically engeneered?

Yesterday I finished The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and I got to say he wrote the book in an innovative way. He foresaw an interesting future for mankind.

A world where diseases have been stamped out,no gnats,fungi,weeds. No social/economical struggles, in other words a social paradise. Mankind managed to subjugate the nature and readjusted everything to fit its needs. Such a scenario lead to a world in decay due to too much comfort and security. (read it to find out more)

The vision of the future is frightening especially his account of the end of life on earth.A good job of including detail but not over doing the descriptions.

Beside this facts we got also a pseudo-scientific romance, between our time traveller and a future humanoid, and some nice adventures.

An interesting read overall.

We mainly focus on books here but if you have some nice Sci-Fi movies or shows, do share them!

Good choice. Inception is definitely a good movie and worth watching.

I recently finished a sci-fi book about a guy who travels through time and somehow ends up having sex with himself. It was crazy and hilarious and seriously geeky with all the time travel talk about paradoxes and I loved it. Not many books manage to surprise me these days.

My favorite sci-fi book remains Dune by Frank Herbert, though.

Oh, and if you know Romanian, Ovid Crohmalniceanu has two sci-fi books, "Istorii insolite" and "Alte istorii insolite". They are short stories that I read in fifth grade and at the time I thought they were fantastic and I was impressed with the author's imagination. I would re-read them today if I could find them.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World--can it be considered science fiction?

Right now I'm reading 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. I haven't gone past the first few chapters but the writer's description of life in Mercury is incredible.

I think yes, Brave New World goes into the science fiction field. It's set in the future and it focuses on a dystopian reality, seen as utopian by its cohabitants. BNW is one of my favorite books of all times.

I don't know why but I always imagined the world of BNW would be far worse than the world portrayed in 1984, its complement.

Yes, it is scarier! The terror in 1984 is of the loss of choice. In Brave New World, it's the futility of choosing. So I guess it is worse, because you're drowning in irrelevance. In 1984 personal freedom is something to aspire to, in Brave New World, essentially there is nothing.