Best SciFi

[Buffy]

I really really liked Stephen King's The Stand. Dune was another favorite of mine, as was The Host, Stephenie Meyer's book that was written for grownups and not teenagers.

As for movies, plotwise, I loved Gattica and Total Recall. When I watch Total Recall now, though, it's soooooo cheesy with the effects.

[Bryan Fury]

Get yo' ass to Mars!

[Buffy]

LOL, ok, the lines were cheesy too. But still, a great movie!

[Bryan Fury]

Yup, Arnold is always enjoyable on screen

[Paulie Almonds]

I liked Starship Troopers for the same reason... some and cheesy lines.
"They sucked his brains out!"

[StephanePare]

OK, so I am a huge SciFi nut. What is your favorite SciFi book/movie/TV show and why?

For book I would have to go with Dune or 2001. Both excellent books that will get you thinking (sadly, the movies pale in comparison).
For movie, I will have to think about it a bit more, there are so many great ones out there.

for Books, i say the original dune series. not the tripe his son wrote.

and yeah, no movie ever lives up to a book. EVER. Books go in detail, and target audiences who want details beyond action scenes, books want to compress a 10 hours story into 2 hours and skip as much character building as possible to make way for flashy scenes.

As for the movies aprt, well its not so much movie, but for me i really loved the stargate series, and stargate atlantis. god, universe is bad tho

[CJoZ]

Ok, I'll jump on the "renew the old thread" bandwagon.

I am also a huge Sci/Fi Fantasy fan, so hang on to your hat.

Let's start with authors...

Someone mentioned Starship Troopers....the movie sucked and didn't follow the book, which is one of the better I have read. Robert A. Heinlein...I have all of his books also. Things like Stranger in a Strange Land...and his future histories. Love that stuff.

Anne McCaffrey. The Dragonriders of Pern series...The Brainships...

David Weber...some of the best Sci/Fi out there. The Honor Harrington series.

David Drake
Tolkein, but only because I started with that stuff, it's kind of a long read now days. Stuffy. Great story though.

L Ron Hubbard, another book that was great but the movie was horrible...Battlefield Earth.

Steven King, pretty much all of his stuff, but the only one I have read more than 5 times is The Stand. The Green Mile, The Running Man, Gerald's Game...and don't forget Misery...got to love Kathy Bates.

Total Recall was written by Piers Anthony...I have about 60 or 70 of his books. Good for fast reading. Also the Xanth series. Some of his stuff is pretty far out.

Andre Norton, Jerry Pournelle, Isaac Asimov (Foundation, Robots),

I am re-reading my stuff by David Gemmell, Druss the Legend, he has a very good series on Troy that follows the story but puts a different explanation on what people think happened...much more realistic than history...(trojan horse? Really?) Starts with Lord of the Silver Bow.

Who can forget Robert Jordan and George RR Martin.

Elizabeth Moon, both for Fantasy (Paksenarion) and Sci/Fi. Both excellent.

I can talk about this all day...

I'm going to stop there I guess. Won't even mention Star Wars, Star Trek, DragonLance...

[Paulie Almonds]

Stephane... true re the movies, but some are pretty decent adaptations (like the LOTR series for example... no way you can pack in that much detail, but good movies overall). I liked the Stargate movie, but didn't watch much of the series. I agree that universe is pretty bad though. I was really looking forward to the Brian Herbert Dune books, but they were sooooo heavy handed. I had to read them for completeness sake.

Wow Mark. I tip my hat to you! I have a lot of reading to do. A friend of mine recommended Starship Troopers in high school and I loved the book. Great themes that make you think. Made me read more Heinlein after that. Was never much into Sci Fi or Fantasy before that (other than the movies). I haven't read much of Piers Anthony other than the Incarnations of Immortality series. I didn't realize he wrote Total Recall. I always thought that it was based on Dick's "We can remember it for you wholesale". Is Hubbard really worth reading? I have only seen his stuff through the lens of the media and Scientology. I should give him a shot. I have been on a kick to reread King. Pet Sematary scared the hell out of me when I first read it.

[AdmiralTaran]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the movie "Avatar" yet, I've heard it's the next biggest thing (I haven't seen it personally).

[StephenGDavis]

I am a big military sci-fi buff, and have really got into John Ringo. Great characters, great series, and he writes really fast. David Drake. S.M.Stirling. IThe list goes on and on . . .

[laffer35]

Currently watching Babylon 5, I think it's a very good sci-fi series... albeit with quite a bit of cheese.