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[Anastasia]

Hi there!

I'm Anastasia, and I'm not very good at introducing myself ;)

Favorite Books: most of the novels by Zelazny, Sheckley, some Simak and Asprin.. Culture series by Iain M. Banks has been one of the latest discoveries.
Favorite Genres: I guess I'm not too picky and ready to give anything a try, if the mood is right that is:) So.. history, scandi crime novels, noir, sci fi (bet you didn't see that one coming :) )
Favorite TV shows: Don't think I've got the right attention span for a tv show.. I watch the first few episodes, I love it, and then I never finish one.
Favorite Movies: Blade Runner, Moon 2112, Stoker, Taxi Driver, Night on Earth...
Favorite Food: spicy
Day Job: finance
Hobbies: history of arts, coding, learning languages and random stuff

Pleased to meet you all. Do you, by any chance, know who can recommend a good book around here? ;)

[C. John]

Of course nowadays after the first few episodes a show might not be around any more. At least when I was a wee laddie shows used to last for at least half a season (16 episodes).

As for a good book here are some suggestions
SF: The Skylark of Space, Too Many Magicians (also a good mystery and a good fantasy), The Time Stream
Mysteries; The Nine Tailors (my absolute favourite mystery)

[Anastasia]

John wrote: "Of course nowadays after the first few episodes a show might not be around any more. At least when I was a wee laddie shows used to last for at least half a season (16 episodes)."

Sometimes, it's just the other way round: you see something and wonder how (and why) on Earth it's still airing

[C. John]

That is true. Of course the show I wonder how it is lasting so long is the show you are avidly watching every week.

[Jonathan]

Welcome Anastasia! I'm not Big TV fan either, but I do recommend Daredevil. The writing in that show is the best in any tv show.

Definitely better than that overrated Game of Thrones.

[Peggy]

Welcome Anastasia, I see you like spicy food. Just out of curiosity, what kinds? Cajun, Indian, Mexican, Southwestern..... or all of the above. :)

[Anastasia]

Peggy wrote: "Welcome Anastasia, I see you like spicy food. Just out of curiosity, what kinds? Cajun, Indian, Mexican, Southwestern..... or all of the above. :)"

Hi Peggy, Indian and Mexican have to be my top favourites, but I'm always looking for something new to cook and to try :)

Jonathan wrote: "Welcome Anastasia! I'm not Big TV fan either, but I do recommend Daredevil. The writing in that show is the best in any tv show.

Definitely better than that overrated Game of Thrones."

Thank you! WIll surely give Daredevil a shot, heard nothing but good about it (which is suspicious enough for me to go check it myself :))

[Anna]

Anastasia wrote: "Favorite Books: most of the novels by Zelazny, Sheckley, some Simak and Asprin.. Culture series by Iain M. Banks has been ..."

Welcome Anastasia! I just picked up a bunch of used Robert Asprin books at a thrift shop a few weeks ago. Maybe I will actually get around to reading them?

[Anastasia]

Welcome Anastasia! I just picked up a bunch of use..."

Check if there any Phule's Company books among those: a light read and some loveable characters too

[Gil]

Hey guys!

I'm Gil. I've always been a reader unfortunately lately I've been so busy that I haven't had much time to do so. I want to change that, though.

I've been using GoodReads for a while but have never joined any of the groups so I thought I'd give it a chance. I do love books of any and all genres. I never really had a favorite genre. I just read everything that comes my way but lately I have been really, really liking Sci-Fi. Especially ones where there are other planets, other species, inter-planetary governments, etc.

I've been working on the Ender Quintet and I really do like it. And yes, I read Ender's Game much before the movie came out. I thought that was so random! I read the first, Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, and just finished Xenocide. I just started Children of the Mind. I'm not planning on reading Ender in Exile so I need to start working on finding another book!

Brings me to my question..

Does anyone know or can suggest any books similair to the Ender Quintet? Such as other plants being inhabited, other sentient species, multi-species clashes, etc. I really like this series and want another like it.

If anyone knows of any that I might enjoy I would really, really love any suggestions!

Thanks guys and I'm glad to be here!
Hope to hear from you guys soon!

[Leonie]

Hi Gil! This is a lovely group - welcome :)

[Gil]

Leonie wrote: "Hi Gil! This is a lovely group - welcome :)"

Thanks Leonie, I'm glad to be here!

[Link]

'Lo all!

I'm Link Parish. And filling out this list, for me, was kind of like doing a word problem. And I was never good at word problems. But here goes:

Favorite Books: Arrrrr. Favorite books not yet a movie? Forever War, Selected Stories - Theodore Sturgeon, Chronicles of Amber, Mote in God's Eye

Favorite Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical non-fiction.

Favorite TV shows: The Returned, Lab Rats (yes, you read that correctly), any Joss Whedon vehicle, Walking Dead, Bones, Castle. Any decent improv.

Favorite Movies: Any bad Sci-Fi or horror, all MST3K, any good Sci-Fi or horror; recently Monsters, Another Earth; previously Labyrinth, Princess Bride, Lake Placid, Armageddon, Shaun of the Dead, Stranger than Fiction, The Stand, any Monty Python/Terry Gilliam. And claymation.

Favorite Food: Coffee, followed by espresso, cappuccino, latte, tea in a pinch--and croissants.

Day Job: Retired military, dipping my toe back into writing speculative fiction. And just unwinding.

Hobbies: Papillion concierge, poetry (reading good, writing bad), getting pwned in FPS games by people 1/3 my age, travel (hope to hit the Con circuits again in a few years, huzzah! But I find I no longer handle crowds well), drinking coffee.

Other: Depends on how much coffee I've had.

Also glad this group is here. Go Space Opera!

[C. John]

If you want a bad SF movie try "Attack of the Mushroom People".

[Link]

heheh - thank you. We will. We've been avoiding "ZomBeavers", but at the cost of watching every "Earth freezes over" movie ever made. We need a change of pace :)

[Jonathan]

Welcome Link! I'm giving Zombeavers a try tonight.

What branch?

[Anna]

Gil wrote: "Does anyone know or can suggest any books similair to the Ender Quintet? Such as other plants being inhabited, other sentient species, multi-species clashes, etc. I really like this series and want another like it..."

Welcome Gil! Hmmm... Orson Scott Card's later Ender books are more purely space opera. There's a bit of a traveling-around feel to them, so there are lots of good series that should hit those high notes. What's coming to mind right now is John Scalzi's rewrite of the Little Fuzzy books.

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Link wrote: "Favorite Movies: Any bad Sci-Fi or horror..."

Welcome Link! Another bad sci-fi movie fan! Yay! My husband laughs at me, especially when Bruce Campbell comes on with Alien Apocalypse or the 2005 C. Thomas Howell remake of War of the Worlds (which I liked much batter than the Tom Cruise version later).

[C. John]

Of course with foreign films you can never be sure if they were bad to begin with or if it is the dubbing that makes them bad.

[Michael]

Hi, my name is Michael and I'm a big sci-fi fan. Got hooked on it early as a kid watching Star Trek, Star Wars and anime. Then started playing all these sci-fi videogames like Phantasy Star, Starcontrol 2, X-Wing. Excited to join this group.

[Gil]

John wrote: "Of course with foreign films you can never be sure if they were bad to begin with or if it is the dubbing that makes them bad."

I absolutely love Star Trek!! Favorite being the Voyager series. I wish there was more about it out there!

[Gil]

Anna wrote: "Gil wrote: "Does anyone know or can suggest any books similair to the Ender Quintet? Such as other plants being inhabited, other sentient species, multi-species clashes, etc. I really like this ser..."


Thanks, Anna! I am gonna look up the John Scalzi's stuff. Thanks for the recommendation! If there's anything out there that anyone thinks I may like, please let me know!

Of course, I am going to look at what this group is/has read and am sure that there will be some good ones!

Thanks guys!

[Leonie]

Hi Michael! I've always loved Star Trek too - particularly TNG series.

[Jolie]

Hello, I'm a scifi addict.

Firefly, Farscape, Basically, anything space is my preference. I have published a title in Scifi Romance called Home is the Sailor. It really is a problem for me. lol I don't do anything that isn't science fiction related some days.

[Aaron]

Link wrote: "Favorite Movies: Any bad Sci-Fi or horror, all MST3K, any good Sci-Fi or horror; recently Monsters, Another Earth; previously Labyrinth, Princess Bride, Lake Placid, Armageddon, Shaun of the Dead, Stranger than Fiction, The Stand, any Monty Python/Terry Gilliam. And claymation."

Watch everything by Asylum, they are the grand masters of terrible cheesy sci-fi movies. They got big mainstream attention for a while with Sharknado, but they have been doing terrible crap for years.

Some of my favorites.
MegaPiranha
2-headed Shark Attack
Moby Dick 2010
Ghost Shark

[C. John]

I beleive they did a Sherlock Holmes movie a few years ago which I have seen and wasn't too bad. They also did a John Carter movie to cash in on the press about Disney's version but I haven't seen that one.

[Link]

Jonathan wrote: "Welcome Link! I'm giving Zombeavers a try tonight.
What branch?"

Chair Force aka Air Force. But I flew a desk.

And thanks Anna, Hi All! Wow, lively is right...

[Anna]

Michael wrote: "Hi, my name is Michael and I'm a big sci-fi fan. Got hooked on it early as a kid watching Star Trek, Star Wars and anime..."

Welcome Michael! This is the right place if you're into anything with 'star' in the title!

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Jolie wrote: "Hello, I'm a scifi addict. Firefly, Farscape, Basically, anything space is my preference...."

Welcome Jolie! Another Farscape fan ... yay! I own the complete series on DVD.

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[Lafayette]

Hi, I read sci-fi and fantasy since the age of 15.
Space opera is one of my favourite genres, in books, tv shows, films and video games.
I particularly liked The Voyage of the Space Beagle by AE van Vogt when I was young, Dan Simmons, Jack Vance, Dune, the Vorkosigan saga, Alien and Predator in films, stargate tv shows.
Now I'm reading the culture's serie by Iain M. Banks.
I eat mostly what I can grow in my garden :)

[Jonathan]

Welcome Lafayette! Dan Simmons is a fantastic author. Love his books.

[Link]

Welcome on board, er I guess that holds. The name AE van Vogt sparked some great memories. Must be re-read time for me... welcome again!

...and a belated 'Hi!' to Jadetyger. Yes! Another Babylon 5 fan in the house...

[Jadetyger]

Well, I've posted a couple of times, so I figure I should actually introduce myself. :)

Name:Erika

Favorite Books:
The Liaden Universe--Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Captain Lacey Mysteries--Ashley Gardner, among many, many more

Favorite Genres: Space Opera, Mystery


Favorite TV shows: Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Agent Carter

Favorite Movies:

Depends on how I'm feeling. Right now, Star Wars Original Trilogy, The Avengers

Favorite Food: Mexican or Italian, Chocolate

Day Job: Medical Receptonist

Hobbies: Writing, reading. Learning to crochet


Glad to meet you all!

Jadetyger/Erika

[Al]

Link wrote: "Welcome on board, er I guess that holds. The name AE van Vogt sparked some great memories. Must be re-read time for me... welcome again!

...and a belated 'Hi!' to Jadetyger. Yes! Another Babylon 5..."

I'm not a B5 fan or anything, but I have all the episodes plus the Crusade series and I re-watch them about every two years.

[Anna]

Lafayette wrote: "Space opera is one of my favourite genres, in books, tv shows, films and video games. I particularly liked The Voyage of the Space Beagle by AE va..."

Welcome Lafayette! It sounds like you're in the right place :-)

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Jadetyger wrote: "Favorite Books: The Liaden Universe--Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Captain Lacey Mysteries--Ashley Gardner, among many, many more..."

Welcome Erika! A mystery-space opera fan. Now that's an interesting combination! I'm totally blanking out at the moment, but there's this great space opera-ish / mystery series about a galactic detective/agent who goes hunting for stuff like stolen art. And then of course a quasar or something blows up and they have to shield the planet from destruction (it -is- space opera).

Gah! Help me out, peeps! Who the heck wrote that series?

[Leonie]

Hi Lafayette and Erika :)

[Krzysztof]

Al wrote: I'm not a B5 fan or anything, but I have all the episodes plus the Crusade series and I re-watch them about every two years.

I think that make you a fan and good because there not a lot people who appreciate Babylon 5
and welcome to Space Opera Fans

[R. Michael]

Good evening.

Name:
My name is R. Michael Litchfield, most folks wind up calling me Litch.

Favorite Books:
Gods, I have such trouble narrowing down my favorites and they rarely stay put. Even just limiting one per author: Bujold's Mountains of Mourning, Brust's Jhereg, Brin's Uplift War (or maybe his Transparent Society), Rothfuss's Name of the Wind, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Stross's Singularity Sky, O'brian's Post Captain, Kirstein's Steerswoman, Bull's War for the Oaks, Bank's Use of Weapons... I literally could go on for an hour and if asked tomorrow a good half my list would change.

Favorite Genres:
The ones with good books in them (are there any that don't?) High Fantasy, Urban fantasy, magical realism, space opera, planetary romance, speculative fiction, military scifi, powered armor stories, napoleanic alt history, American frontier fiction, utopian fiction, drug fiction, drug fueled political cultural screeds,

Favorite TV shows:
Start trek (tos & tng), bab5, doctor who, firefly, BSG, Buffy, agents of shield, andromeda, torchwood, Blake's 7, terminator:scc, Farscape, tomorrow people (bbc original), sense8, voyage to the bottom of the sea, ark ii, cowboy bebop, dark angel, eureka 7, Last Exile, Jericho, I'll just stop.

Favorite Movies:
Terminator, buckaroo banzai, big trouble in little china, princess bride, the matrix, serenity, 28 days, children of man, Zardoz, minority report, lord of the rings, pleasentville, shreck, Addams family, the abyss, aliens, robocop.

Favorite Food:
Sushi, BBQ, ice cream, texmex,

Day Job:
Unemployed loser

Hobbies:
Fighting with people online, walking with dog, drugs, reading, cooking

[Timothy]

I've always followed science fiction in general, and space opera in particular. I have all the Star Wars books, too many Trek books, and since being introduced to Kindle, have read a lot of good SO I'd never seen before.

I watch anything SO on tv or dvd. I'm also a space based computer game player, beginning with the original Star Trek game on a university mainframe, and with the Apple II and a game called Warp Factor.

The Wing Commander series got me through a dark time in my life. The X2/X3 series through another.

Last year I started writing a space opera novel, using my game playing experiences as base for the combat. It had been in my head for 20 years. Today, I'm a full time author writing a series which is turning into something a lot larger than I planned.

[C. John]

R. Michael wrote: "Good evening.

Name:
My name is R. Michael Litchfield, most folks wind up calling me Litch.

Favorite Books:
Gods, I have such trouble narrowing down my favorites and they rarely stay put. Even jus..."

Wasn't Tomorrow People an ITV show. I remember watching the series on CBC and I am sure that old ITV logo and sound effect played at the beginning of the show. I enjoyed the first few seasons but I found it got sort of silly near the end. It got shown on YTV when that station got up and running but it has been years since I saw it.
And yes "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a great book. It was one of the books we read in our Grade 13 English B class. Thank god Rev. Ken Campbell didn't know about that one. (any and all references will be explained if anyone is actually that interested)

[Kirsten]

John wrote: "R. Michael wrote: "Good evening.

Name:
My name is R. Michael Litchfield, most folks wind up calling me Litch.

Favorite Books:
Gods, I have such trouble narrowing down my favorites and they rarely..."

I loved the original Tomorrow People. I think it was originally made in the 70s. I saw it in the 90s (I think) on Nickelodeon.

There have been two remakes though.

[R. Michael]

Wasn't Tomorrow People an ITV show?

That's right, I automatically assign any Brit show to the beeb but this was an exception.

I liked the innocent hopeful vibe of the original, the Wb remake that's on netflix isn't horrible but it suffers the too-pretty-for-words curse that all WB shows have. Also the stories don't work nearly as well when you have twentysomethings (and a few 30somethings) pretending to be late teenagers rather than gawky early teens like in the original.

[Jonathan]

R. Michael wrote: "Good evening.

Name:
My name is R. Michael Litchfield, most folks wind up calling me Litch.

Favorite Books:
Gods, I have such trouble narrowing down my favorites and they rarely stay put. Even jus..."

Welcome Litch! Princess Bride is the greatest movie ever. I've seen it like two dozen times and never get bored when watching it.

[Anna]

R. Michael wrote: "I have such trouble narrowing down my favorites and they rarely stay put..."

Welcome Litch! Too many book syndrome, eh? It's so hard to pick between them! Why? Just read them all!

[Lucas]

Hi I'm Lucas Bale,

I could admit to loving (or wanting to read) almost all of the books in this thread, but I'll keep it limited below!

Name: Lucas Bale
Favorite Books: Any classic sci-fi, but certainly Iain M. Banks's Culture, also Kameron Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha, Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos, Frank Herbert's Dune, Hugh Howey's Wool to name but a few...
Favorite Genres: Space Opera (although I enjoy almost all scifi)
Favorite TV shows: BSG (new version), Firefly, Game of Thrones, Lost, (non-SFF – Elementary, Castle) and a few golden oldies from when I was a boy – Space: Above and Beyond, Quantum Leap
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Alien and Aliens, Blade Runner, anything with Indiana Jones cracking a whip, Predator, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, the new Avengers films, 70s and 80s Cold War spy flicks, Bourne, Stand By Me, Shawshank.
Favorite Food: I love English sausages, and I always enjoy a good thin-crust pizza
Day Job: Author and editor
Hobbies: Trekking and mountaineering (mainly ice and snow, rarely rock-climbing)

It's hard to just put a handful of favourite books ro favourites TV Shows/movies, but those are a selection. Happy to be here.

[Jonathan]

Lucas wrote: "Hi I'm Lucas Bale,

I could admit to loving (or wanting to read) almost all of the books in this thread, but I'll keep it limited below!

Name: Lucas Bale
Favorite Books: Any classic sci-fi, but ce..."

Welcome Lucas.

So 70s and 80s Cold War spy flicks? Have you seen Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy? It's easily one of the top 3 spy movies ever made.
The Bourne trilogy is the top action spy movies.

Good taste in movies.

[Lucas]

Jonathan, I'm actually holding off on watching the Oldman version (just came onto Danish Netflix, what timing!) as I need to write an alternative history piece for an anthology that presupposes Philby was never caught and became Chief of Six (whereupon he took Angleton's life and the CIA became perforated by a series of moles). A few other historical liberties for the alternative history and we have Russia and China in control of much of Europe and Asia, and a vastly-weakened US. Might be fun. I watched the Alec Guinness version years ago, but I rather like the idea of watching it again, and then the Oldman version, to get me in the mood for the story. But I agree, fantastic film. I also loved Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Well worth your time.

[Kirsten]

I loved Cold War espionage novels. Like the Bernie Samson trilogy by Len Deighton.

[Lucas]

Kirsten, don't get me started! You'll have me talking about the real Bourne Identity and its sequels, and how Clancy should have stopped writing after Debt of Honour.

[Wesley]

Hello, my name is Wesley Fox and I am a self-published author as well as a huge sci-fi fan. It started with a Star Trek: The Next Generation marathon on TV when I was in second grade and grew from there.

Gene Roddenberry was a huge influence on me then later came Frank Herbert's Dune, Star Wars (of course), and Michael Crichton. I love all forms of science fiction, and lately have had a taste for cyberpunk, space opera, and biotech.

Here are favorites: Dune, Star Trek movies, Matrix, Jurassic Park, Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones.

As a day job, I work as a consultant helping small biotech companies develop life-saving therapies. That is the cool way of saying I am a regulatory affairs specialist.

Check out my website at Prescientscifi.com for the blog, reviews, and information on my books. I also have a podcast named Thoughtcrime available at iTunes and Soundcloud.

Wes

[Jonathan]

Lucas wrote: "Jonathan, I'm actually holding off on watching the Oldman version (just came onto Danish Netflix, what timing!) as I need to write an alternative history piece for an anthology that presupposes Phi..."

Thanks for the tip. I've been dying for another spy movie.

Tell me when that piece comes out. I'm buying the anthology.

[Anna]

Lucas wrote: "...anything with Indiana Jones cracking a whip..."

Welcome Lucas! Hah! I'm an old Indiana Jones fan myself!

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Wesley wrote: "It started with a Star Trek: The Next Generation marathon on TV when I was in second grade and grew from there..."

Welcome Wesley! Ahhh ... assimilated young, eh? That's how it always starts. Just a little toke, they say! A quick hit of sci-fi. And the next thing you know you have a lifelong addiction. Hah! :-)