Sci-fi September: Science Fiction Influences (Part XIX)
By the time the 90s had come into being, my science fiction tastes had been cemented in my psyche. I read books by Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Spider Robinson and Ben Bova to name a few.
There were some great (and not so great) sci-fi TV during the 80s. V, Max Headroom, and Quantum Leap were a few, and we can’t forget ALF, can we?
Some notable movies were: Outland (with Sean Connery), Escape from New York, Blade Runner, ET, War Games, The Fly, Predator, and of course, you can’t forget The Terminator.
Some not so notable but at the time I thought were: Battle Beyond the Stars and Scanners.
One film that I think gets forgotten is Enemy Mine staring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr.. Two combatants in an interstellar war crash on a distant planet and have to out their differences aside to survive.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/
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