What's your favorite Science fiction series?

[CrazyAnglican]

What're your favorites? For me it's as follows:

Movies: Star Wars (no contest)
Books: The Foundation Trilogy
Television: Babylon 5 (Star Trek TNG a close second)
Comedy or Spoof's: Hitchhiker's Guide (The book [url]not[/url] the movie)


I enjoyed Babylon 5 for several reasons (In my opinion the most underrated Sci Fi series):

1) With all the advanced technology, things were still really screwed up.
2) The main characters seemed to have a great rapport.
3) The aliens were well developed and were equally screwed up (even
the Vorlons)

P.S. I didn't do a poll (I couldn't put every sci fi series on it)

[alex_white101]

star wars! wheel of time series

[CrazyAnglican]

star wars! wheel of time series

Is that a book series I haven't heard of it?


What makes it great?

[Riao]

Foundation.. Was that an Asimov series? Or Clark... It was one of the 2, right? At any rate...

I agree with the movies.. Star Wars all the way. I didn't read any science fiction books as a series.. so I'll take your word for it. Maybe I'll check out one or two of this foundation series.

Television... Gotta be the Twilight Zone. Awesome, awesome show. The original series that is.

[lduke1990]

Alex wheel of time is fantasy, not sci-fi.

for me it is as follows

movie: blade runner
book: the trilogy of four plus one (hitch hiker's for those who don't know)
tv show: the re-imagined battlestar galactica
comedy/spoof: spaceballs

[CrazyAnglican]

Alex wheel of time is fantasy, not sci-fi.

for me it is as follows

movie: blade runner
book: the trilogy of four plus one (hitch hiker's for those who don't know)
tv show: the re-imagined battlestar galactica
comedy/spoof: spaceballs

Good picks. Blade runner was a little dark for my taste, but good none the less. Have you read any of the Neuromancer series? It's along the same line.

Foundation.. Was that an Asimov series? Or Clark... It was one of the 2, right? At any rate...

It's Asimov. It's based on the premise that while humans are unpredictable, groups and mobs are not. A genius uses this knowledge to predict the future and foretells the fall of society very soon. The only way to lessen the impact of this is to create two societies called the foundations to keep all knowledge safe in the coming dark age. The books cover how the first foundation keeps physical science safe and the problems they encounter.

[riggable]

Starwars as a movie

2001: a space oddysey as a book. I like Arthur C. Clarke, and this was such a good book. Especially the beginning.

[b.k. barunt]

Wtf? No one mentioned X-Files? Hitchhiker's Guide definitely, Blade Runner - good choice, Star Wars (only the original 3), and the best of them all - The Twilight Zone with Rod Serling. I used to have nightmares as a kid just from the music.

[Jehan]

since all other media have been mentioned do anime count? ive only seen a few but mayozakis are good, trigun is ok, and evangelion confused the crap outta me.

[lduke1990]

speaking of anime is escaflowne fantasy or sci-fi?

[diddle]

the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy was excellent

[Guiscard]

Books certainly the Foundation series, but all of Asimov is good really...

Films... Well, perhaps the original three Star Wars, but I'm yet to be blown away by a SciFi film...

Series has got to be the new Battlestar. I liked the cheesy kitsch of the old one, but the new series is absolutely spot on. Addictive. Only minus is that (minor spoiler alert) the four guys who discovered they were cylons in the last episode of the series knew it because they were all singing a Jimi Hedrix song...

[Nobunaga]

Books: (no particular order, really)
1. Asimov's Foundation Trilogy
2. Old Man's War by John Scalzi (great, new author)
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4. Dune by Frank Herbert
5. Starship Troopers, Robert A Heinlein
6. Man in the High Castle, Phillip K. Dick
7. A Scanner Darkly, Phillip K. Dick
...

Films: (again, no special listing order)
1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. Screamers
4. Pitch Black (before Vin Diesel became intolerably Hollywood)
5. Aliens
6. 2001, a space Odyssey
7. Soylent Green
8. Rollerball (not the remake)
9. Star Wars (first 3)
10. Planet of the Apes (first one, and not the recent one)

TV Shows (" ")
1. (Gotta agree) BattleStar Gallactica kicks ass
2. Babylon 5 (probably my all-time favorite)
3. Firefly (love the bizarre mix of old west and outter space)
4. Farscape
5. Star Trek TOS
6. Star Trek DS9
7. Doctor Who (what a show! You guys seen Blink?)
8. Crusade
9. Heroes (love that show!)

...

[Aries]

I have a few books I really like, but this is one of 'em:

Robot Dreams, Issac Asimov

[KomradeKloininov]

Asimov's foundation series is good, but I always found that I liked the robot series better.

[gethine]

films -
1. Aliens
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Back to the Future

TV Series -
1. Quantum Leap
2. New Battlestar
3. New Doctor Who (i watch it with my 2 year old son, and he loves it)

Books -
1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2. Hood's Army Trilogy - Nathan Elliott (one of the first sci-fi books that i ever read)
3. Hitchhiker - Douglas Adams

[OnlyAmbrose]

Books- Asimov, Frank Herbert

Movies- Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars

TV Show- Firefly!!!

[Minister Masket]

You missed a category: Games.

The following are my No.1 favourites from each category.
Films: Star Wars
Books: Hitchhiker's Guide series
TV Show: Futurama.
Games: Ratchet and Clank series.

[wcaclimbing]

The entire Enders Series and the Shadow Series, both by Orson Scott Card

[CrazyAnglican]

You missed a category: Games.

Yes, I didn't think of that one. My favorite was an old Yaquinto game (I don't think they are in print anymore) called "Shooting Stars". It was an incredibly complex boardgame that simulated combat in space. It had tons of cardboard chits, and took hours to play. But hey, that was back in the day before computers did it all for us.

[lduke1990]

ender's game and ender's shadow were the same book, just from the POVs of two different characters (ender and bean)

[luns101]

Film(s): The original STAR WARS trilogy
Book Series: THE DARK TOWER by Stephen King
TV Show: The old TWIGHLIGHT ZONE series

[unriggable]

Does 300 count?

[static_ice]

Movie: Pitch Black (agree, Vin Diesel was better back then)
Book: The Elric Saga (technically a sci-fi, but I consider it more fantasy)
TV: Futurama (nothing else comes to mind right now...)
Game: Halo (cuz I already played it, but when Bioshock comes out that might replace it...)

[lduke1990]

how is 300 science fiction? obviously fantasy