Science Fiction | Forum profile

Quote: Originally Posted by Window Bar Let's face it: Over the past generation guys have migrated to video gaming, an industry that now draws more dollars than film. I got hooked on Doom in the 90s but it only lasted for about 8 months. The FPS games just look like the same thing with better resolution and motion to me. I haven't played one in years. Maybe I should check out the AVATAR game. That movie looks interesting. psik

Age 14, 9th grade, thanks to transfer from parochial school, who challenged me to try three books in the genre (a Heinlein, a Norton, and either an Asimov or Sturgeon, can't recall) before saying I didn't like SF. I was instantly hooked. OTOH, I didn't *buy* most of the books I read (though I did spend whatever money I had on books.) I checked out books from school and town libraries, armloads of them, bicycle basketsful of...

His new book, Terminal World , which I'm reading a review copy of at the moment, may be the best thing he's ever written. Excellent stuff.

Talking of Banks, his Against a Dark Background takes place in a far future of a non-Earth, but similar type civilization. It's one of my favorites of his.

hmm a decade being 10 years i cant help but think the end of the first deacde of the 21st century is still 13 months away that said i have just finished 3001 the final oddesy ( arthur c clark ) having read them so far apart i will return to the start 2001 a space oddesy following with 2010 2061 & 3001 again the mars trilogy by kim stanley robinson i started saturns children by charles stross but after a period of broken reading (just...

Without getting too distracted, the discussion here is about SF books, though Mark does raise the question why has film raised the sales of Fantasy books but Sf film not done so in the same way for SF? (And I know that film has raised the sales of some books - I Robot for Asimov, for example - but what I'm thinking about is that collective experience of the new , where Fantasy film watchers will try new Fantasy books by relatively...

I really need to give the original post and comments another read through. FWIW, Mark posted a response/follow-up post on his blog today, which as of this post already has 27 responses.

I finished Mass Effect: Ascension at about 1:30am. Was a very good read - certainly one of the best I've read this year. Still not sure if that's good or bad

Quote: Originally Posted by chitman13 I've been following the comments on the original post of Mark's (and adding a couple of replies myself), but I think the apparent 'death of sci-fi' is more down to such a big surge in new fantasy authors that are getting a lot of hype online. There is always discussion about who the next big new fantasy novelist will be, but not so much for sci-fi. This forum itself goes to show how...

As a massive Star Trek fan I beg to differ. I LOVED the new movie, which recovered a sense of risk and exploration that had long been lost from the franchise. Not to mention the sheer courage the writers showed to do what they did. I have yet to manage to see Children of Earth...I got BBC America JUST too late. Now, you just triggered my Doctor Who diatribe. Doctor Who is not a children's show. It started as a children's show, but...