Introduce Yourself - Part I Showing 851-900 of 1,884

[Betsy]

Welcome Jim. It's nice to have someone of my generation, though there seem to be quite a few of us oldsters here.

[Leonie]

Hi Jim :)

[Anna]

Jim wrote: "I'm here now because I get a tad weary of all the discussions of books about unicorns, wizards, elves and faeries. Give me a crew aboard a space ship..."

Welcome Jim! I like unicorns, wizards and faeries, but I like my spaceships more (and if you can combine them, even better!) Which is why I'm a space opera lover :-)

[Leonie]

Hi Steve! I've also enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica reboot, and the prequel, which was sadly cut short - Caprica.

[Jim]

Stephen wrote: "My favourite books include Flowers for Algernon, The Stars My Destination, Ender's Game and The Culture novels."

Another Banks fan. Good on you!

[Anna]

Stephen wrote: "Hello, I'm Steve, a fantasy and sci-fi loving teacher who has escaped more than half of his 30+ years on this planet away on other worlds..."

Welcome Stephen! I'm a BSG fan as well :-)

[Najaf]

Hi, I am Najaf from Lahore and I live and breath space operas. My favorite sf book is Hyperion. I am currently reading Aurora and I am always on the look out for a strong captivating space opera.

i hope to make good friends here and get some decent recs.

[Alan]

My attempt at trying to follow the guidelines:

Name: Alan Blank

Favorite Books: Barrayar, Foundation, Ender's Game, Starship Troopers, Shoeless Joe and way too many that I'm not recalling. I began reading science fiction as a kid with the Tom Swift Jr. and Dig Allen Space Explorer books.

Favorite Genre: Science Fiction, especially space opera, mystery, historical fiction, light fantasy, thrillers.

Favorite television shows: Current-Supernatural, Agent Carter, Luther, Sherlock, SH.I.EL.D. (I probably should be watching the Expanse). Old: Star Trek TOS and DS9, Battlestar Galactica (Edward James Olmos rules). Firefly, Hill Street Blues, Justified and The Shield. I'll try almost any science fiction show at least once, no matter bad it is.

Favorite movies: New-Star Wars The Force Awakens (we just saw it last weekend). Old-Star Wars (original), Casablanca, Adventures of Robin Hood, Forbidden Planet, Doc Savage, Buckaroo Banzai and whole lot more.

Favorite Food-doesn't chocolate and coffee count as food groups?

Day job: I have one.

2016 books I'm looking forward too: Gentlemen Jole and the Red Queen (Bujold); The Twice and Future Cesar (Meluch) The End of All Things (Scalzi) and the final Temeraire book. Unless I find this at the library then it will probably be 2017 until I read these as I wait for the paperback.

[C. John]

I read the Tom Swift, Jr as well, probably started in grade 5 or 6 but the Dig Allen are new to me. I also have some of the earlier Tom Swift books as well as a couple of Tom Corbetts.

[Alan]

I can't believe that I forgot the Tom Corbett books. I discovered those at the library because of my older brother.

Ye elder brother used me as his cover for meeting his girlfriend at the library. So he would make our parents happy by taking me, and I had run of the place.

Besides the Tom Corbett books I found an old hardcover Hawk Carse pulp adventure.

[Jason]

I devoured Tom Swift Jr when I was growing up. Still have some of them kicking around the house or at my parents' house. They were a great intro to science fiction.

[Alan]

I had to move 4 months ago, and part of the process was clearing out a storage unit that I was renting.

The Tom Swift Jr. survived a massive purge. Unfortunately most of my hard copy comics are gone.

Actually a Mack Reynolds Star Trek YA and the two book YA series Space Eagle also made it to my new home.

[C. John]

I have most of the Tom Swift, Jr books. My original copies did not move out here with me but I was able to purchase almost the entire run. Missing only a couple I think. I also have a couple of the earlier Tom Swift series as well as some of the later incarnations, including two which team up Jr with the Hardy Boys. As I said I have a couple of the Corbetts and there may be some other stuff. Have to look at my shelf of such fiction some day and take inventory.

[Anna]

Najaf wrote: "Hi, I am Najaf from Lahore and I live and breath space operas. My favorite sf book is Hyperion. I am currently reading Aurora and I am always on the look out for a stro..."

Welcome Najaf! You're in the right place if you love Space Opera!

[Anna]

Alan wrote: "My attempt at trying to follow the guidelines:

Name: Alan Blank

Favorite Books: Barrayar, Foundation, Ender's Game, Starship Troopers, Shoeless Joe and way too many that I'm not recalling. I bega..."

Welcome Alan! Another BSG fan, yea!

[Veronica]

I also liked the Rick Brant book series (along with Tom Corbett and Tow Swift, Jr.) It wasn't SO much science fiction but science and adventure, yes. When the Jonny Quest TV series came along, I always thought I detected a LOT of resemblance to the basics of the Rick Brant books, although the main character was younger in the TV show.

[Alan]

Many years ago I got my daughter to watch some original Johnny Quest episodes because she had seen some of the remake shows at her father's one weekend. she much preferred the original series.

Then I corrupted her with Firefly, The Trouble with Tribbles and Warren Ellis.

I found a pdf copy of one the Rick Brant books and it is my TBR folder. Along those same lines did you, or anyone else here remember the Winston science fiction books-Winston was the publisher and there were no series characters. I have three of them, two of which were read to the kid as she was growing up.

Jeez-this just made me remember Asimov's Lucky Starr books. What can I say? I read a lot of bad space opera (Perry Rhodan, Cap Kennedy, and Doc Bones) growing up.

[C. John]

Man I love the Perry Rhodan books. I have all the Ace paperbacks and five of the first six from the successor publisher, as well as one of four from a much later publisher. I wish I had learned German to be able to read some of the later ones. When I was the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College) I found a bookstore that had tons of the German Perry Rhodans. Only problem was they weren't in any order. I am currently re-reading what I have and I am on book 7. Cap Kennedy I have seen but never read any of them and the Doc Bones are new to me.

[C. John]

On the matter of Jonny Quest my kids like both the original series and The Real Adventures series but haven't seen any of the episodes from the 1980s revival. I've also seen both animated movies. Does anyone know if the live action film has been released.

[Alan]

John wrote: "On the matter of Jonny Quest my kids like both the original series and The Real Adventures series but haven't seen any of the episodes from the 1980s revival. I've also seen both animated movies. D..."
per www.darkhorizons.com the last news was that Robert Rodriguez (whom I have mixed feelings about) had turned int he script last August.

[Alan]

John wrote: "Man I love the Perry Rhodan books. I have all the Ace paperbacks and five of the first six from the successor publisher, as well as one of four from a much later publisher. I wish I had learned Ger..."

I'm probably being a little unfair in regards to Perry Rhodan. I liked the early books, and the first ones with Atlan as the main character. As the books got to around the late 90s early 100s in English I felt the quality was really lacking.

Cap Kennedy, despite apparently being written by the well regarded E.C. Tubb, struck me as a knock-off of Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future stories (Hamilton is one of my big guilty pleasures). Doc Bones was sort of a mix of Captain Future with some Lucky Starr (best one sentence description I can come up with)

[C. John]

I have read a few of the Captain Future stories when they were reprinted in paperback some years past and have even watched quite a few of the animated series episodes (but in French a language I don't understand for the most part). I saw the Lucky Starr's in paperback but never read them for one reason or another.

[Alan]

If you liked the Captain Future stories I feel comfortable recommending The Best of Edmond Hamilton and his Starwolf trilogy.

[C. John]

Have the best of Edmond Hamilton and I had at least one of the Starwolf books. The former survived the move out west the latter didn't. Hamilton just happens to be one of my favourite SF writers. Of course I am also a fan of his stories for The Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure Comics in the early to mid sixties.

[Alan]

John wrote: "Have the best of Edmond Hamilton and I had at least one of the Starwolf books. The former survived the move out west the latter didn't. Hamilton just happens to be one of my favourite SF writers. O..."

I think you would like Hamilton's work on Superman 2965 later retconned to Superman 2465. He also had an essay, which I loved, in weird Heroes Volume 6.

[C. John]

Are those the stories set in the future with the villain Muto. They were good. They are collected in the volume Superman Past and Future which my library has a copy of. Hmm, if we keep this conversation going I am going to forget if I am on my Space Opera forum or my DC Comics forum.

[Alan]

Sorry about the digression.

Yep those are the stories I was referencing. Hamilton is among the writers I sort of fanboy about at times.

[Veronica]

I LOVED the Starwolf books! Some of the first science fiction I ever read. My Dad was a total SF fan and had a huge library of the old paperbacks. Lensmen series as well...

[C. John]

Alan wrote: "Sorry about the digression.

Yep those are the stories I was referencing. Hamilton is among the writers I sort of fanboy about at times."

Don't worry about the digression. I use to post on a forum site that sadly no longer exists. It was often amazing the twists and turns a thread could take.

[Anna]

Hijacking a thread on Saturday night is a right of passage here 3:-)

[Leonie]

Hi Greg, Welcome to the group :)

[Angel]

Hi, my name is Angel Chadwick!

[C. John]

Hey Greg in your interests section of your profile you list AFL. Out of curiousity what does that stand for. If it stands for what I think it does which team do you support.

[Anna]

Greg wrote: "Hello! I have just joined your group.
I must confess to reading mainly star wars and star trek sci fi, plus the odd stand out scifi novel when it calls to me. I am thinking of Peter F hamilton, Jam..."

Welcome Greg! Were you aware Peter F. Hamilton granted our group an author interview? If you scroll down the community to the Author Interviews folder and click into it, it's down there somewhere :-)

And if you're a Star Trek / Star Wars fan, you are definitely in the right place!

[C. John]

Greg wrote: "John wrote: "Hey Greg in your interests section of your profile you list AFL. Out of curiousity what does that stand for. If it stands for what I think it does which team do you support."

Hey John..."
West Coast Eagles. I live on the west coast of Canada and we have eagles here so it sort of made sense. Don't get to see the game anymore (mainly because we chopped the cord to cut costs) but I still like the game. Much better than the NFL or the CFL.

[Leonie]

John wrote: "Greg wrote: "John wrote: "Hey Greg in your interests section of your profile you list AFL. Out of curiousity what does that stand for. If it stands for what I think it does which team do you suppor..."

Go the Dockers? I originally came from WA, but now reside in NSW, where people tend to call Rugby League 'football' despite rarely touching the ball with their feet...

[Leonie]

Greg wrote: "LOL i signed up to the group to talk about science fiction and here we are talking about AFL in the middle of the bloody cricket season!!!!! "

But of course! We're Australians ;)

[Leonie]

Greg wrote: "LOL i signed up to the group to talk about science fiction and here we are talking about AFL in the middle of the bloody cricket season!!!!! "

And I do like science fiction, of course. And Australian Sci-fi's pretty good!

[C. John]

Actually I'm Canadian. I just love your sport. I have some issues of a 70's Australian Sci-Fi magazine (Vortex I think) in my library. Picked them up when I was taking theology at Wycliffe College (part of the University of Toronto) at Bakka Books (SF bookstore in Toronto I spent many wonderful hours in).

[J.]

Hi all, my name is Josh, it's nice to meet you guys.

Favorite Books: Probably The Wind-Up Girl and American Gods, but as far as Space Opera stuff goes, I've been enjoying The Expanse books. The comic book series Saga is also incredible, one of my favorites.

Favorite Genres: Anything sci-fi or fantasy, but I particularly like space opera and cyberpunk.

Favorite TV shows: Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, True Detective (season one), Justified...I currently watch most of the superhero shows, most of the new Syfy shows (now that they're actually good again), and really anything with some supernatural element. Also several procedurals because I'm a sucker for those things.

Favorite Movies: Stars Wars (Episode IV is probably my favorite, but I acknowledge that V is undoubtedly the best of all the films) and Brick (yay for Rian Johnson directing future SW films). The Princess Bride and The Fifth Element are also up there, you know, because.

Favorite Food: Things made from potatoes

Day Job: Freelance writer and aspiring author

Hobbies: I game a lot, mostly League of Legends recently. I also love Mass Effect, and I'm super excited for the next game at the end of this year. I enjoy watching various sports-ball games (and some e-sports) as well.

[Alan]

J. wrote: "Hi all, my name is Josh, it's nice to meet you guys.

Favorite Books: Probably The Wind-Up Girl and American Gods, but as far as Space Opera stuff goes, I've been enjoying The Expanse books. The co..."

The Fifth Element-I love this movie, and one of the two main reasons is the Diva's scene.

[Leonie]

J. wrote: "Hi all, my name is Josh, it's nice to meet you guys.

Favorite Books: Probably The Wind-Up Girl and American Gods, but as far as Space Opera stuff goes, I've been enjoying The Expanse books. The co..."

Ooh, Princess Bride! :)

[Anna]

J. Young-Ju wrote: "Hi all, my name is Josh, it's nice to meet you guys...."

My name is Inigo Montoya. You kill my father. Prepare to die... 3:-) Yay! Another Princess Bride fan :-) Not space opera, but I'll take a fellow cult-fan wherever I can get one.

[Jon]

Here goes, using the form at the top:
Name: Jon
Favorite Books: Citizen of the Galaxy, Paddle to the Sea, Story of O, Moon Called, Any of the Valdemar books, 12 and 12, The Cat in the Hat, Sector General any, All the King's Men, Maisy Dobbs, Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache books, the Graveyard Book, Prayers for Sale, The Gurnsey ..., yadda, yadda, yadda.
Favorite Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action Heroines, Erotica, Quirky,
Favorite TV shows: No tv for 15+ years
Favorite Movies: Elvira Madigan, Fantasia, Laurence of Arabia
Favorite Food: chicken enchiladas green
Day Job: hard work
Hobbies: reading, talking with friends, raising adult kids
Other: three cats, one wife, two adult kids. Did I miss any other of 'those who must be obeyed'?

[Deb]

Hi all, pleased to meet you!

I stumbled across this group while I was looking for a Marine group, but I read sci-fi more often than Marine-sci, so I guess that works.

So introducing myself off the recommended list: You can see my name.

Favorite Books and Genres: Waaaay too many to list, but relevant to this group...
For Space Opera I really can't go past Tanya Huff's Valor series.

In classic sci-fi, last year I started obsessively collecting and re-reading E C Tubb's Dumarest series. How obscure is that?

For cyberpunk: If there were nominations for godhood I would put forward William Gibson.

Favorite TV shows: While I sometimes watch stuff online I don't have a Teeve. What's the point anyway, when they canned Firefly?

Favorite Movies: Many, often sci-fi. GATTACA would be probably my all time favorite.

Day Job: I pretend to be a scientist in a Histology Laboratory.

Other stuff, yoga and sword fighting and diving and reading. Mostly, a lot of reading.

On groups I mostly lurk and I vanish for long periods of time when reading consumes me.

[Kirsten]

Welcome! Is there a lot of Marine-sci out there?

[Anna]

Jon wrote: "Favorite TV shows: No tv for 15+ years..."

Welcome Jon! I went 8 years with no television, then I got married and watched for a couple of years, but then they killed the Stargate, so I've been pretty much boycotting it ever since. I -do- binge-watch entire series from time to time, Battlestar Galactica, Walking Dead, whatnot.

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Deborah wrote: "I stumbled across this group while I was looking for a Marine group, but I read sci-fi more often than Marine-sci, so I guess that works..."

Welcome Deborah! Would that be marine biology sci-fi? Or space marines? Both are cool! The movie Leviathan (1989 version) comes to mind. I live near the Woods Hole Research Center and sometimes attend their Oceans Alive seminars (or whatever they call it ... the sponsor changes every couple of years and they change the name).

[C. John]

Deborah I did a compare books with your shelves. I think you are the first person I have done that with that has read any of the Dr. Syn books. Have you ever seen the version Disney did back in the sixties with "No. 6" [mind has gone blank on actor's name] in the lead role. It was done as a three parter for the televison show but it was released as a movie in non-US markets. It uses the third book as its basis as I recall. Hope you enjoy are rather eclectic group.

[Alex V]

Hello everyone, I am here to discover books and comic books which I would not have found otherwise. My local bookstore has become mainstream... It is possible, and my conversations with the owner shows that he has lost his sight for hidden gems.

[Mathew]

Hello everyone,

My name is Mathew Workman and I am a big fan of space opera and hard military SF. The first opera I ever read was "Bio Of a Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony" and I discovered that one by accident. A few years later and I found the Baen free library and I didn't see daylight for a few months. It was there that I first encountered my favorite author David Weber. I am here in SOF to find like-minded readers and new SF authors, to expand my horizons, and to have lively discussions about the science of the future.