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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #90 on: December 15, 2008, 01:32:10 pm »
Merci brokeplex!

Yes, I can see that; maybe that movie could have added more realism since now seals in the North are being nearly dead when born since they are too much unnourished when born and so their mothers know that, and their mothers leave them to defend themselves right away to die in search of food, warmth, and to freeze to death! Do you know?

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #91 on: January 23, 2009, 02:15:42 pm »
From the UK's The Guardian:

1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read: Science Fiction and Fantasy (Parts One, Two and Three)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-part-one

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-part-two

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-part-three

Books listed alphabetically by Author:

1. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
2. Brian Aldiss: Non-Stop
3. Isaac Asimov: Foundation
4. Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
5. Paul Auster: In the Country of Lost Things
6. Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
7. Clive Barker: Weaveworld
8. Nicola Barker: Darkmans
9. Stephen Baxter: The Time Ships
10. Greg Bear: Darwin’s Radio
11. Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination
12. Poppy Z Brite: Lost Souls
13. Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon
14. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
15. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race
16. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork range
17. Anthony Burgess: The End of the World News
18. Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
19. William Burroughs: Naked Lunch
20. Octavia Butler: Kindred
21. Samuel Butler: Erewhon
22. Italio Calvino: The Baron in the Trees
23. Ramsey Campbell: The Influence
24. Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
25. Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
26. Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus
27. Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
28. GK Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday
29. Arthur C Clarke: Childhood’s End
30. Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
31. Michael G Coney: Hello Summer, Goodbye
32. Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a Coma
33. Mark Danielewski: House of leaves
34. Marie Darrieussecq: Pig tales
35. Samuel R Delaney: The Einstein Intersection
36. Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
37. Philip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle
38. Umberto Eco: Foucault’s Pendulum
39. Michael Faber: Under the Skin
40. John Fowles: The Magus
41. Neil Gaiman: American Gods
42. Alan Garner: Red Shift
43. William Gibson: Neuromancer
44. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland
45. William Golding: Lord of the Flies
46. Joe Haldeman: The Forever War
47. M John Harrison: Light
48. Robert A Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
49. Frank Herbert: Dune
50. Herman Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
51. Russell Hoban: Ridley Walker
52. James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
53. Michale Houellebecq: Atomised
54. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
55. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled
56. Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
57. Richard Jefferies: After London: or, Wild England
58. Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love
59. Franz Kafka: The Trial
60. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
61. Stephen King: The Shining
62. Marghanita Laski: The Victorian Chaise-longue
63. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Uncle Silas
64. Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
65. Doris Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor
66. David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus
67. Ken MacLeod: The Night Sessions
68. Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black
69. ichael Marshall Smith: Only Forward
70. Richard Matheson: I am Legend
71. Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer
72. Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy
73. Cormac McCarthy: The Road
74. Jed Mercurio: Ascent
75. China Mieville: The Scar
76. Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain
77. Walter M Miller: A Canticle for Leibowitz
78. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
79. Michael Moorcock: Mother London
80. William Morris: News from Nowhere
81. Ted Morrison: Beloved
82. Haruki Murakami: the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
83. Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor
84. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time-Traveller’s Wife
85. Larry Niven: Ringworld
86. Jeff Noon: Vurt
87. Flann O’Brien: The Third Policeman
88. Ben Okri: The Famished Road
89. Chuck Palahnuk: Fight Club
90. Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare Abbey
91. Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan
92. John Cowper Powys: A Glastonbury Romance
93. Christopher Priest: The Prestige
94. Francois Rabelias: Gargantua and Pantagruel
95. Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
96. Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space
97. Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt
98. J K Rowing: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
99. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
100. Antoine de Sainte-Exupery: The Little Prince
101. Jose Saramango: Blindness
102. Will Self: How the Dead Live
103. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
104. Dan Simmons: Hyperion
105. Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker
106. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
107. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
108. Bram Stoker; Dracula
109. Rupert Thomson: The insult
110. Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court
111. Kurt Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan
112. Robert Walser: Institute Benjamenta
113. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
114. Sarah Waters: Affinity
115. H G Wells: The Time Machine
116. H G Wells: The War of the Worlds
117. T H White: The Sword in the Stone
118. Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun
119. John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids
120. John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos
121. Yevgeny Zamyatin: We


My friend at LiveJournal who posted this has read huge amounts of this genre and had the following comments:

This is an odd list, particularly on the fantasy front.

A lot of the recognised classics of SF are in here (though where are The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Stand on Zanzibar, Mission of Gravity, Slan etc?) but on the Fantasy front Tolkien, CS Lewis, Phillip Pullman, Terry Pratchett and Ursula K Le Guin have all been sidelined to a short section on “Imagined Worlds” and pretty much the rest of the major forces in fantasy have been ignored altogether (Tad Williams, Robert Jordan, Stephen Donaldson, George RR Martin, David Gemmell etc.). I would have said that it was a brave attempt to bring new titles to the SF&F buying audience’s notice, but the descriptions of a lot of the books plus the fact that many are only SF or F if you squint really hard makes it look more like an attempt at making the choices pretentious enough for The Guardian’s core readership.

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #92 on: February 08, 2009, 09:05:57 pm »
Which such film did you see lately Brokeplex/others ??

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #93 on: February 10, 2009, 04:00:01 pm »
"Soylent Green," isn't it time for a remake!  ;)  It could be framed against more current issues. In 1970, there was much talk of overpopulation.  Of course, the world is overpopulated, but there was  the "green revolution"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution )  and we found other things to worry about.

I see they are remaking LOGAN'S RUN, another 1970's classic. Death is now at 21, not 30.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #94 on: February 10, 2009, 04:15:06 pm »
"Soylent Green," isn't it time for a remake!  ;)  It could be framed against more current issues. In 1970, there was much talk of overpopulation.  Of course, the world is overpopulated, but there was "green revolution"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution )  and we found other things to worry about.

I see they are remaking LOGAN'S RUN, another 1970's classic. Death is now at 21, not 30.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/

good idea, SG is a classic that cries out for a good remake, not some Keanu Reeves snore-fest like the execrable remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still"



 

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #95 on: February 10, 2009, 07:49:11 pm »
I see they are remaking LOGAN'S RUN, another 1970's classic. Death is now at 21, not 30.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/

In the book, the original age of death was 21.  Our country has fallen into the youth-worship that the book was actually warning about -  :-\ go figure - so instead of remaking the movie with adults, they're remaking it with - what teenaged actors?  We talking Miley Cyrus here?  That's kinda squiffy, seeing as how the teenagers in the book Logan's Run acted like little adults and not children (sex/drugs/violence).

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #96 on: February 10, 2009, 10:27:22 pm »
In the book, the original age of death was 21.  Our country has fallen into the youth-worship that the book was actually warning about -  :-\ go figure - so instead of remaking the movie with adults, they're remaking it with - what teenaged actors?  We talking Miley Cyrus here?  That's kinda squiffy, seeing as how the teenagers in the book Logan's Run acted like little adults and not children (sex/drugs/violence).

Miley as Holly?  Really?  I know that Rory Culkin will play Logan and the Jonas Bros will be Sandmen.  ;D

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #97 on: February 10, 2009, 10:39:10 pm »
Miley as Holly?  Really?  I know that Rory Culkin will play Logan and the Jonas Bros will be Sandmen.  ;D

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I wish.  We know how Holly ended up.  ;D

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #98 on: February 10, 2009, 10:47:27 pm »
I am surprised that one or two or... are asking for a remake, as I was like-bashed when I asked a remake of Brokeback Mountain, has that changed? What is your driving force now? Awakening to many issues now?

I think that a remake if Soylent Green is a good idea, as that there is a need for that more and more foods, since too much of  our foods are coming from too far and from poor countries with starving populations, plus we are neglecting now to produce more food in our own yards!! Plus more ?

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Re: All Things Sci-Fi and Fantasy
« Reply #99 on: March 03, 2009, 10:00:07 am »
I'm in the middle of watching season 3 of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. I'm so happy Kira finally chopped off her awful hair extensions.  And what was the point of seeing Jamie Bamber in a fat suit.  Seems like a lot of trouble to go through just to show that the character has gone "soft".  Anyway, this is probably the first sci-fi program that has me in tears every second episode.  I just have to hear the first notes of the theme music and I feel waves a sadness and melancholy.. :'(