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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by mcgrew on Monday January 16 2017, @12:34AM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday January 16 2017, @12:34AM (#454207) Homepage Journal

    It looks to me like a film buff rather than a F&SF fan wrote that poll, as they're all movies or TV series, or have been made into such.

    And the books are almost always better than the films (there are exceptions).

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:17PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:17PM (#455110)

    Serious hard sci fi beyond what will ever be on TV: KSR's Mars Trilogy

    Lukewarm military sci fi could be good could be bad if converted to TV: Legacy of the Aldenata aka Posleen War series. How about Frankowski and the cross time engineer series?

    Pew pew pew military sci fi not much worse than whats on TV now: March Upcountry series aka Empire of Man series. Can't be worse than Andromeda. Well, they might take that as a challenge.

    Strange sci fi: The unseries by Asimov containing R. Daneel Olivaw as a continuing character showing up in the damnedest places in multiple novels.

    Alt-history: 1632 series, pretty much all of Turtledove.

    Fantasy as good or better than LOTR: Holdstock's Mythago Wood series. Its a flamewar just watching people fight over the "right" order to read the novels. I did chronological because I'm old and that's the order they were published.

    I note the numerous Stargate TV shows didn't even get an honorable mention, nor did Buck Rogers. I suppose given enough liquor I might suggest Knight Rider is kinda sci fi, in a hideous deformed sort of way. Hell the A-Team was about 5 minutes of quality makerspace welding per hour, and none of the physics in the show fit ours...

    Comet TV has been showing "men into space" a black and white 1960 era TV show. Just watching is a strange experience. I'm not really sure if I should recommend it or recommend changing the channel.

    I'm so F-ing old I grew up reading Tom Swift series of books. Before the Aristotle robot went to mars there were like 100 books about Triphibian Atomic Car and the adventures of him and his buddy and his girlfriend Phyllis and the repellatron and I forget the name of the cook.

    Because its late (for me) and I'm famous for writing stuff so weird its almost trippy when I'm almost asleep, I hereby propose my favorite story arc is Mythbusters TV show. The cast ages, Kari gets pregnant and somehow ends up even hotter (MILF style), about 10% of the myths get retested over and over (Oh fuck not another episode about the mirrors setting sailboats on fire again...) I mean no one said it had to be a fiction series, so why not some non-fiction? And with that I can go to sleep and wake up tomorrow asking WTF I was thinking when I wrote that....

    • (Score: 2) by nethead on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:49AM

      by nethead (4970) <joe@nethead.com> on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:49AM (#458801) Homepage

      Turttledove's World War series (the one with the alien lizards) was a good run, could be considered hard HF/alt even.

      But really, no Doctor Who in the list? Really?

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    • (Score: 2) by nethead on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:56AM

      by nethead (4970) <joe@nethead.com> on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:56AM (#458802) Homepage

      Oh, and on Keri, yes indeed. Although S02E02 will always be special.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:46PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:46PM (#456250) Journal

    Exactly the series I meant when I voted for other. The Foundation books are terrific.