Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

["Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente" <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>]

I think Dune is a must read for any scifi fan...

I am a retro-scifi fan... I love to read the stories, but sometimes a
50's movie can tell a story quite nicely... Crappy FX require a better
plot to keep you watching...

I recommend:
- The Forbidden Planet (The best!) (Very likely the precursor of Star Trek)
- The day the Earth stood still (Not the remake, the old one) (GREAT
music) (Klaatu Barada nikto!)
- THX 1138 (The only good movie George Lucas has ever done) (A little bit dense)
- Soylent Green
- War of the worlds (old movie, not the remake)
- Voyage to the centre of the Earth (old movie, great for a sunday
evening with kids)
- The time machine (Again, the old movie)

Some other interesting movies...
- Silent Running
- Solaris (both Soviet and American remake)
- Metropolis (It is great, but it is also long... Very good visuals...
There are some alternative suggested sountracks around... look for
them)
- Capricorn One (For the ones that still think that Apollo never made
it to the Moon)

And of course.... Plan 9 from outer Space!!

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Eris Discordia
<eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is now a 'short story'? Or your
>> "sci-fi" expertise is equivalent to your technical "expertise"?
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> You're right. It's a novel--a "long story." I haven't read it. Which is why
> I didn't recommend it. I named and recommended what I had read.
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> --On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:54 PM +0100 Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Eris Discordia
>> <eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> At last, something I can claim expertise in--you actually see the
>>> "sci-fi" expertise showing on my feeble attempts at technicality ;-)
>>>
>>> [...]
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>>> Then there's Philip K. Dick. One of his short stories was recommended (by
>>> which the film Blade Runner was inspired).
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>> "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is now a 'short story'? Or your
>> "sci-fi" expertise is equivalent to your technical "expertise"?
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>> Peace
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>> uriel
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>> PS.: And I agree with yy, it is a very recommendable book, as is most
>> work by P.K. Dick. Also is very recommendable almost everything by
>> Jack Vance, although it is less 'sci-fi' and more high quality
>> literature.
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