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Science Fiction ~ Books, TV, Movie & General Comment~Content
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The best space movie ever isn't 'Star Wars,' according to data. See the movie that beat it out.
...Here, Stacker compiled a list of the best space movies of all time as determined by the Stacker score, which equally weighs a film's IMDb user score and Metascore (data from October 2020), so both critics' and fans' opinions are taken into account. To be considered for the list, a film needed over 2,500 IMDb votes and at least seven Metacritic reviews.
The films on this list include soaring space operas, faithful docudramas, gripping thrillers, and speculative musings, but they all deal with space to some degree. These films span the recent history of cinema, from 1956 to 2022, and thus a chronological progression can be observed, with the early successes influencing later films.
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g5000
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Have you seen 1899 on Netflix?Another sci-fi/horror book I'd recommend is 'Dead Silence.' It's labeled as Titanic meets Event Horizon. Basically a salvage crew in space come across a lost luxury passenger ship where everyone on board is dead. Was a fun read. Enjoyed it a lot.
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I'm not big into hardcore science fiction, but I have read quite a few of books in that vein. The Three Body Problem is the most recent of the hardcore science fiction novels I have read. I understand there is going to be a Netflix movie made from this book.
My all-time favorite science fiction book is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It is exceedingly clever and has some smart humor in it at the same time.
I've lost count of how many copies of this book I have given away.
My all-time favorite science fiction book is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It is exceedingly clever and has some smart humor in it at the same time.
I've lost count of how many copies of this book I have given away.
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I always loved the film"Minority Report" based loosely off the book by Phillip K. DickPartly a place to review the books, TV shows and films dealing with Science Fiction. Also a place do comment on the writers of such, and maybe film producers and directors.
I really loved the film because it questions technology... is it always the answer. Will technology advance enough to the stage where crimes can be predicted before they happen and the person who most likely will commit the crime is arrested? I hope not. It had great acting. Great story line. Special Effects were amazing I thought.
Brave New World - probably my all time favorite Sci-Fi novel kind of explores similar themes... when will technology go too far? Is technology really the best answer? The film "Gattica" again kind of explores similar themes to Brave New World, Ioved the film. Science is not flawless in determining human potential, the human will plays a big role. Ethan Hawke was outstanding in this movie, great acting.
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I'm not a fan of sci-fi and time travel but I got the book as a gift. "The Cabinet of Dr. Leng" by NYT best selling authors Preston & Child starts off as a 19th century detective story and then it switches to today and some sort of time travel machine. I'm about 100 pages in and still trying to figure it out before I put it down.
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Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926
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If you haven’t heard of Hugo Gernsback, you’ve surely heard of the Hugo Award. Next to the Nebula, it’s the most prestigious of science fiction prizes, bringing together in its ranks of winners such venerable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Neil Gaiman, Isaac Asimov, and just about every other sci-fi and fantasy luminary you could think of.
It is indeed fitting that such an honor should be named for Gernsback, the Luxembourgian-American inventor who, in April of 1926, began publishing “the first and longest-running English-language magazine dedicated to what was then not quite yet called ‘science fiction,’” notes University of Virginia’s Andrew Ferguson at The Pulp Magazines Project. Amazing Stories provided an “exclusive outlet” for what Gernsback first called “scientifiction,” a genre he would “for better and for worse, define for the modern era.” You can read and download hundreds of Amazing Stories issues, from the first year of its publication to the last, at the Internet Archive.
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The archive. Worth a look just for the cover artistry.
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If you haven’t heard of Hugo Gernsback, you’ve surely heard of the Hugo Award. Next to the Nebula, it’s the most prestigious of science fiction prizes, bringing together in its ranks of winners such venerable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Neil Gaiman, Isaac Asimov, and just about every other sci-fi and fantasy luminary you could think of.
It is indeed fitting that such an honor should be named for Gernsback, the Luxembourgian-American inventor who, in April of 1926, began publishing “the first and longest-running English-language magazine dedicated to what was then not quite yet called ‘science fiction,’” notes University of Virginia’s Andrew Ferguson at The Pulp Magazines Project. Amazing Stories provided an “exclusive outlet” for what Gernsback first called “scientifiction,” a genre he would “for better and for worse, define for the modern era.” You can read and download hundreds of Amazing Stories issues, from the first year of its publication to the last, at the Internet Archive.
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Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926
If you haven’t heard of Hugo Gernsback, you’ve surely heard of the Hugo Award. Next to the Nebula, it’s the most prestigious of science fiction prizes, bringing together in its ranks of winners such venerable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C.
www.openculture.com
The archive. Worth a look just for the cover artistry.
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The Blackout (2020) was a nice movie. May be its plot not completely accurate, and there are some funny mistakes about military conceptions, but it clearly demonstrates the popular Russian conceptions like "Russia is the last stronghold of humanity", "Mutiny-war", "the rest of the world is lost in darkness and became inhuman". It worth watching, as for me.
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The Matrix came out 25 years ago. Couldn't have beaten it by much.Something I came across the other day, to kick things off.
25 Years Ago, a Criminally Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Beat 'The Matrix' to the Punch
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