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[Lucas]

Jonathan wrote: "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 p..."

It'll be around January, as far as I'm aware. I'll let you know.

And thank you, Anna. This is a great group!

[C. John]

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..."

Looking at your television list and see that you list Space: Above and Beyond and Quantum Leap as golden oldies. Now I feel old. Think I shall go and download a Limeliters album from freegal (while listening to disco on my iTunes library). But welcome to the asylum. The inmates are running the place right now.

[Lucas]

John, I'm forty soon. I was watching QL and S:AB as a young teenager. Those were classic, formative years. I loved those days. Now if you don't mind, I need someone to cut the straps on this damn straight jacket...

[C. John]

I will see if I can find someone. They were always leery of giving me sharp instruments at work, though they had to if I was to do my job.

[Link]

Lucas wrote: "John, I'm forty soon. I was watching QL and S:AB as a young teenager. Those were classic, formative years. I loved those days. Now if you don't mind, I need someone to cut the straps on this damn s..."

We can cut the straps?
(Quantum Leap remains a huge favorite. Even our dogs like it. One of them anyway.)

[Lori S.]

John wrote: "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."

It was produced by the now defunt Thames Television for ITV.

[Lori S.]

Hi all! My name is Lori S.

Favorite Books: Always a hard question, but my personal favorites are Dune by Frank Herbert (including the other 5 original books in the series); Alan Dean Foster's Humanx series; Brian Daly's Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt Adventures; John Scalzi' Old Man's War series, among others.

Favorite Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, mysteries, romance (but very little PNR)

Favorite TV shows: Doctor Who, Supernatural, Grimm, Sleepy Hollow, M*A*S*H, Buffy & Angel, Highlander, Forever Knight, Firefly, Stargate, ghost hunting shows/haunted phenomenon, Red Dwarf, Black Adder and other Britcoms, The Universe, NOVA, American Experience, coughcoughAncientAlienscoughcough, ....

Favorite Movies: Galaxy Quest, Mystery Men, The Mummy movies, Indiana Jones series (including the Crystal Skull), Independence Day, Pirates of the Caribbean, Serenity, The Thin Man series, Big Trouble in Little China - anything that's good or fun or both.

Favorite Food: Semi-sweet or dark chocolate, pizza, breakfast burritos with green chile & sausage from a local food chain

Day Job: Production in a court reporting firm. It's not as exciting as it sounds. =0D

Hobbies: Reading mostly and watching too much TV ^ and playing in online forums

Other: One of the most dangerous sites on the web isn't the not Orinoco but TVtropes.org

[Anna]

Lori S. wrote: "Favorite TV shows: coughcoughAncientAlienscoughcough...."

Hah! Nothing wrong with ancient alien conspiracy theories :-) I get some of my best sci-fi tidbits from those shows! Welcome to Space Opera Fans!

[Jonathan]

Welcome Lori. I love tvtropes. Though I do get lost in the sea of information they have there. I can spend hours clicking links.

[Jonathon]

Hi everyone! My name's Jonathon :D

Favorite Books: The Goldfinch, Dune, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, The Scar, The Tree of Man, The Shadow of the Wind, HP and the Goblet of Fire, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Book of the New Sun, Earthsea, Gormenghast. (Basically any coming-of-age/bildungsroman novels!)

Favorite Genres: science fiction, literary science fiction, science-fantasy, space opera, low fantasy, urban fantasy, Dying Earth, bildungsroman, literary fiction, literary young adult (most YA genres but just really well-written and well-constructed novels).

Favorite TV shows: BSG, True Detective, Penny Dreadful, SGU, Futurama, Archer, South Park, Bob's Burgers, Black Sails, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Avatar the Last Airbender, Firefly, Doctor Who, GoT, Top of the Lake, Olive Kitteridge.

Favorite Movies: The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, Guardians of the Galaxy, Princess Mononoke, Y Tu Mamá También, Star Wars, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Howl's Moving Castle.

Favorite Food: Mexican, Japanese.

Day Job: MFA Creative Writing student, academic writing tutor.

Hobbies: reading all the books, writing all the books, swimming in the ocean, surfing.

Other: I'm from Straya!

Nice meeting you all :D

[Anna]

Jonathon wrote: "Gormenghast. (Basically any coming-of-age/bildungsroman novels!)..."

Welcome Jonathan! From Straya, ey? Welcome to SOF!

[Leonie]

Hi Lori, Hi Jonathon!

I'm also from Straya :)

[Jonathan]

Welcome Jonathon. You spelled your name wrong ;)

Great taste in movies. Wes Anderson is without a doubt the best director alive.

[F.D.]

Name: Forrest Brant (F.D. Brant)
Favorite Books: Honor Harrington series, Safehold series, The Lost Fleet series, and going back to a writer who is no longer with us Anne McCaffrey, The Dragonflight series
Favorite Genres: Sci-Fi, Western
Favorite TV shows: Haven, NCIS
Favorite Movies: Future World
Favorite Food: I guess as far as snack foods it would be hot buttered popcorn. Still fried chicken mashed potatoes and gravy with a vegetable works too.
Day Job: Retired
Hobbies: computers - repair and building. And I write.
Other: I've been a sci-fi reader for over 50 years and enjoyed many writers over the years. In the recent past a friend got me started in military sci-fi, and I haven't looked back. Weber, Campbell, Douglas, to name a few authors. Presently reading the Void trilogy by Hamilton

[Brad]

I have read, and like, probably 30 Honorverse books. I am having a hard time finding anything as good. I've tried Cherryh, Reynolds,Flynn. They weren't interesting to me. I do like David Weber's "partners" Flint and Zahn. And the Safehold series. I am trying the Kris Longknife series. So far so good. If I can't find something good to read I might have to start all over with the Honor books. Any ideas on a new series to try?

[Lucas]

Hello. My name is Lucas Grant and i teach physics at a local high school. I love scifi horror comics etc. I am a geek! My hobbies include reading, gaming (tabletop not video) I love punk/alternative music as well. Have two german sheppherds who are my "kids". Favorite book....hard to say. In this genre probably Dune or The Artifact. I am new to goodreads (actually joined years ago but just started to actually use the site). Thanks for having this group as space opera is one of my favorite genres.

[C. John]

Lucas wrote: "Hello. My name is Lucas Grant and i teach physics at a local high school. I love scifi horror comics etc. I am a geek! My hobbies include reading, gaming (tabletop not video) I love punk/alternativ..."
I didn't think anyone played table top games anymore. What type do you play? I have quite a few and my son is interested in trying out some of my conflict simulations/wargames.

[[deleted user]]

Hi, my name is David Collins-Rivera. I'm a writer, podcaster, and voice actor. I've visited Goodreads for a few years now, off and on, but I never seemed to have anything to say, so didn't participated very much. That hasn't changed really, but Space Opera is my favorite SF sub-genre, so here I am anyway.

Favorite Books: Wuthering Heights (more so as a teen), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, War Of The Worlds, Treasure Island, pretty much all of Burroughs' Mars and Pellucidar series, Rendezvous With Rama, Ringworld, Downbelow Station (big time)...gee, the list goes on.

Favorite Genres: Space Opera, Victorian Romance and Adventure, Super-hero stuff, Fantasy

Favorite TV shows: Millennium (very uneven, but when it was good, it was great), Real Humans (the Swedish version of the show), Firefly, the BSG reboot, Blake's 7, Thunderbirds, The Prisoner, Star Trek TOS, The Bridge (Broen/Bron -- the joint Danish/Swedish detective series), Wolfblood, Alice (a Brazilian drama series), Barney Miller...many more.

Favorite Movies: Citizen Kane, Night Of The Hunter, 2001: A Space Odyssey, French Connection, Soylent Green, Solaris (both the 1972 and 2002 versions), Star Wars (4,5,6), Apocalypse Now, Godfather, Star Trek movies Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country, Radar Men From The Moon (the whole serial), Predestination...way more.

Favorite Food: Indian, Italian, Mexican, Thai, some Japanese, my own special rice omelet (though no one else in the house likes it).

Day Job: Stay-at-home dad to my homeschooled autistic son.

Hobbies: I guess it's writing/podcasting/voice acting, since it hasn't become my career yet.

Other: I don't like traveling, and do what I can to avoid it.

[Leonie]

Hi Lucas and David! So nice to see so many people joining this group :)

[Jonathan]

Lucas wrote: "Hello. My name is Lucas Grant and i teach physics at a local high school. I love scifi horror comics etc. I am a geek! My hobbies include reading, gaming (tabletop not video) I love punk/alternativ..."

Welcome Lucas!

I'm a big Chutes and Ladders guy, my 6 year old loves the game. :)

I remember playing Axis and Allies and Castle Risk with friends during high school, on the nights we didn't play D&D. We didn't play Risk, and thank God too, because I suck at that game.

[R. Michael]

Couple of people have mentioned safehold, and since it's technically space opera (even though it is really alternate universe napoleanic/civil war) and since I just finished re-reading it in preparation of the release of _Hells Foundations Quiver_ in October I thought I'd babble about it.

It's another huge series by Weber, very different in setting than his Honorverse books, but similar tone and style. If you hated the info dumps and wordiness of Harringtonland this is even worse.

One of the things about the series is how many characters it has, seriously. He has a dramatist personae you need just to keep track (even though he kills em off as fast as George RR Martin with a toothache) that runs to over 65! Pages in the most recent ones. And, to make matters worse one of his conceits is a degenerated orthography so all the names are spelled weird: Clynthan for Clinton, Nahrman for Norman, Wylsynn for Wilson.

If you like Webber it's great, if not it is horrible.

[Angel]

I'm an indie author. I have been for 25 years. I'm a mom and think Space Opera is an interesting genre. I want to learn more about it and maybe write a Space Opera myself. Maybe I'll learn to do it some justice by engaging in this group. Hi, everybody!

[Anna]

Oh, goodness! Our inbox has exploded in the last 24 hours!

[*happy dance ... wes just luvvvssss the new peeps...*]

Welcome everybody!

[C. John]

There do seem to be a lot of new people coming here. So far I don't recognize anyone from my days in the Erindale College Science Fiction Club (Erindale was one of seven undergraduate colleges at the University of Toronto).

[Jonathan]

John wrote: "There do seem to be a lot of new people coming here. So far I don't recognize anyone from my days in the Erindale College Science Fiction Club (Erindale was one of seven undergraduate colleges at t..."

I'm just going to modify Erindale to Arrendale and tell my daughter Elsa is into sci-fi. That should hook her :)

[C. John]

That is a good one. I should have no problem getting my 5 & 7 year old daughters into SF as The Backyardigans series has had several episodes that were science fiction oriented. Come to think of it they both love Transformers and Star Wars so what convincing do I need to do. (They have 11 and 10 year old brothers)

[Florin]

Name: Florin Nicoara
Favorite Books: Carlos Castaneda's mind bending epics
Favorite Genres: thriller, mystery, sci-fi, literary
Favorite TV shows: Stargate SG1
Favorite Movies: Sawshank, Spaghetti Westerns, Star Wars, Star Trek
Favorite Food: I love fruit more than any preped meal.
Day Job: production
Hobbies: writer, artist, weekend warrior
Other:

[Jolie]

Hi,
I am a goodreads author who writes in this genre, in the interest of full disclosure here. Well, let's see. I'm still waiting for my second season of Firefly. That's what got me started. Right now, I'm reading Ruby Lionsdrake, but I think I'm about to run out of books there.

Just realized this entire post sounds like space opera anonymous. I don't play favorites with food. I love them all equally. Okay, not ALL, but most. I'm willing to try anything that isn't bizarre once.

Mostly, I love to write. It's like breathing, and I know that sounds pretentious. I can disappear into my writing for hours. I only recently decided it was time to actually try to sell some of it. I hate the time selling takes away from it actually. However, I find I'm reading more, making time to read even. I'd fallen off a bit. (realize when I say fallen off I mean down to like one book a month. I can read a couple a week on a bender. lol)

Good to meet everyone.

[Leonie]

Hi Florin and Jolie :)

[Anna]

Florin wrote: "Favorite Books: Carlos Castaneda's mind bending epics ..."

Welcome Florin! Mind-bending epics? Yup, I think that describes those books :-)

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Jolie wrote: "...I'm still waiting for my second season of Firefly..."

Welcome Jolie! Another Browncoat! :-) [*fist bump*]

[David]

Hello my name is David and I'm a space opera junkie. In my youth my parents allowed me unrestricted access to TV (all 4 channels) I started with Star Trek and progressed to Space 1999. When I could not get a fix I found myself hanging out at the library. Through the years since then and the advent of the internet my addiction has only grown. I'm hoping to gain support from this group with my addiction.
Thank you.

[C. John]

Ah yes, the days when there was ABC, CBS, NBC & PBS in the US and CBC & CTV here in Canada, plus the odd independent in both countries and various provincial channels. Now one can't even begin to count the number of networks/channels available.

[Kirsten]

I remember CHEK-TV. We live in Washington State and we used to get that channel out of BC. I still remember the childrens show with the Friendly Giant who set out chairs for storytime.

[C. John]

I grew up with The Friendly Giant back in the sixties. One of my favourite children's shows. Wish it was available on DVD. CHEK still survives but it is now sort of an independent. The CTV network was going to shut it down but a group of employees of the station were able to purchase it.

[Anna]

GMAN wrote: "Hello my name is David and I'm a space opera junkie. In my youth my parents allowed me unrestricted access to TV (all 4 channels) I started with Star Trek and progressed to Space 1999. When I coul..."

Another Space 1999 fan! I loved that show :-) Welcome David!

[C. John]

Does anyone know if the soundtrack is available on CD. I haven't seen it but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[Jonathan]

Jolie wrote: "Hi,
I am a goodreads author who writes in this genre, in the interest of full disclosure here. Well, let's see. I'm still waiting for my second season of Firefly. That's what got me started. Right..."

I feel the same way about writing. Not only do I love it, but it's also therapeutic. My general anxiety flares up when I don't write any fiction during any given day, and when I do write my anxiety vanishes.

[C. John]

John wrote: "Does anyone know if the soundtrack is available on CD. I haven't seen it but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

After I post the above I think to check iTunes and there it is. I suspect the last time I looked I typed in John Barry not Barry Gray. I am forever confusing those two. Anyway for the musically inclined there is a lot of Barry Gray material available there. Added stuff to my wishlist.

[Patelli]

My name is Patelli Paschal,my favorite living author is William F Nolan of Logan's Run fame and favorite SF author of all time is Frank Herbert author of Dune(I have read all sequels and most prequels excepting Butlerian Jihad and Battle of Corrin) I too was a child of the 70's/80's which were fun times of animation,stop-motion puppetry,and live action which saw the likes of Star Trek,Buck Rodgers,Battlestar Galactica,the original V in the U.S. Space 1999 and Dr.Who from the UK .and Spectreman,Space Giants,and Ultraman from Japan in live action. Space Ghost,The Herculoids,Battletech,Space Battleship Yamato(Star Blazers)Gatchaman(Battle of the Planets) animation and my enthusiasm for the genre is immense.I hope to gain insight into more sub-genres,learn about authors I need to know about and have discourse with like minded people!

[Anna]

Patelli wrote: "My name is Patelli Paschal,my favorite living author is William F Nolan of Logan's Run fame and favorite SF author of all time is Frank Herbert author of Dune(I have read all sequels and most prequ..."

Welcome Patelli! With a fan-pedigree like that, you're certainly in the right place! Feel free to jump in on any of the conversations.

[V.W.]

Hi everyone. Here's some details. I am an author, but haven't written any Space Opera (yet).

Name: V.W. Singer

Favorite Books: (only Space Opera) Stars at War series - David Weber, Prince Roger series - David Weber, Dune, Lensman series, Bolo series - Keith Laumer and others, Battletech.

Favorite Genres: SF (military), SF (James White, Christopher Stasheff, James P Hogan, Edmund Cooper), Historical Warfare.

Favorite TV shows: Serenity, Dr Who, Space, Above and Beyond, Andromeda, Defiance, Dark Matter, Killjoys, Battlestar Galactica (original), Ultraviolet.

Favorite Movies: Dune, Alien, Aliens, Alien vs Predator, Star Wars, LOTR, John Carter, Iron Sky.

Favorite Food: Rib Eye Steak, Lamb Curry with saffron rice.

Day Job: CFO/Project Director (retired). Full time author.

Hobbies: Nude photography, CGI art, cooking, knife collecting.

Other: Well travelled, multi lingual.

[Leonie]

Hi Seb and V.W. :) Welcome!

[Kirsten]

Anna wrote: "GMAN wrote: "Hello my name is David and I'm a space opera junkie. In my youth my parents allowed me unrestricted access to TV (all 4 channels) I started with Star Trek and progressed to Space 1999..."

I absolutely ADORE Space 1999!

[Kirsten]

Patelli wrote: "My name is Patelli Paschal,my favorite living author is William F Nolan of Logan's Run fame and favorite SF author of all time is Frank Herbert author of Dune(I have read all sequels and most prequ..."

Wow! We so have the same tastes in TV!

[Link]

Dune... Chicken fried rice... and Dogs welcome. Three for three today - welcome all!

P.S. I Love Space 1999, but will never admit it to anyone.
P.P.S. Dang.

[Anna]

Greetings VW!
Greetings Sebastian!

Welcome to SOF :-)

[R. Michael]

Space 1999 is much less obnoxious if pretend it isn't earths moon but some minor moon of Jupiter or an asteroid. And then smoke a lot of pot.

[Anna]

Rachel wrote: "Okay, lets see... My name is Rachel Dunn

Favorite Books: There is too many to name. I LOVE anything by Ursula LeGuin. But I have been into Orson Scott Card recently. Speaker for the dead is p..."

Welcome Rachel! I'm a Speaker for the Dead fan as well, Firefly, BSG (both versions). We have a space opera(ish) YA friendly section here :-) Gotta assimilate the young'uns!

[Anna]

R. Michael wrote: "Space 1999 is much less obnoxious if pretend it isn't earths moon but some minor moon of Jupiter or an asteroid. And then smoke a lot of pot."

Hah! Yeah, that about sums up the late 1970's when that show was on.

[[deleted user]]

Hi all, nice to meet you!

Name: Jamie Little
Favorite Books:Tolkein, George R.R Martin, Alastair Reynolds and I highly recommend Felicia Day's book 'You're never weird on the internet (Almost)'
Favorite Genres:Sci Fi & Fantasy
Favorite TV shows: The Guild, Battlestar, GOT,
Favorite Movies:Interstellar, AI, Lord of The Rings trilogy, Star Wars original trilogy
Favorite Food:
Hobbies: Reading, Long walks, Skyrim, Neverwinter, D&D