Greatest Sci-Fi char ever movie/book/telly/game

[Karma_Slave]

well anyone? For me MovieFlash Gordon, the ultimate super hero with
no super powers
Book Zeddicus Zul Zorander First wizard, from
The sword of truth series by terry goodkind
TellyCommander Adama from battlestar Galactica
Game Solid Snake. need I say more?

[redbulljunkie]

ooh sci-fi

Book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Telly Farscape or Sliders
Game Half-life
Movie Can't really single any one out in particular

[Karma_Slave]

yeah halflife rocks, sliders was ok farscape even better, never heard of snow crash, ne good?

[lil mizz pyx]

Snow Crash is a fantastic book, I adore it.
I've been dying to get my hands on more of his stuff ever since I read it, but alas, my bank balance does not allow me such luxury..

[Karma_Slave]

have either of ye heard of a writer PC Hodgell? I managed to get one of his books but they are impossible to get, really really unusual mixture of scifi and fantasy really amazing

[redbulljunkie]

lil miss pyxx, I have all but one of Neal Stephenson's (author of snow crash) books. I will gladly lend them to you

[redbulljunkie]

Oh my god, farscape season 2 dvd box set is being released 3rd november [)] So getting it even if it means I can't afford to eat after it [8D]. (i already have season 1 box set and it was so worth it).

[Karma_Slave]

farscape good, andromeda better, thats all i haveto say about that. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm purple Trance Gemini. hmmmm pyx looks a lil like her actually come to think of it

[Viruswriter]

7of9 could convert me anyday, yummy yummy i got her juice in my tummy

[KTS]

Ugh ... no offense to people who are into that, but VW do you have to be SO graphic? Moderator please!

[Karma_Slave]

oh lighten up shadows, she is kinda hot, though not in a way i find all that nice gimme trance, crusher, or ripley anyday

[KTS]

I think for me it would be ... Luke Skywalker any day. I'd dress up as Princess Leia (muffins in the hair, etc.) and ... ooooohhhhhhhh! Strangely enough, I'm not even a Star Wars fan!

[lil mizz pyx]

ooh rbj's gonna lend me books wheeeeeeeee!

[redbulljunkie]

pm me on the details(what do you want, where you want to collect them etc.). I have
Cryptomicon - my favourite book by him
Zodiac
The Diamond Age
Interface
Snow crash

won't be down this weekend, otherwise I'd give you them at the gc meetup.

[Karma_Slave]

KTS ive already told you ill dress u up one day gimme a lil time ok, then you can go chase Luke. Anyway you just know Leah wears the pants in that family, lightsaber or no.

[opus]

quoteOriginally posted by redbulljunkie
pm me on the details(what do you want, where you want to collect them etc.). I have
Cryptomicon - my favourite book by him
Zodiac
The Diamond Age
Interface
Snow crash



I finshed Cryptonomicon about a week ago and although the story was good with the two timelines, found the sheer size of it tough going, 910 pages in hardback! Lots of people have praised Snow crash so think I'll start keeping an eye out in Vibes & Scribes for a 2nd hand copy.
What are his other books like?

[redbulljunkie]

snow crash and cryptonomicon were his best two. The rest are good enough (easy to read) but not half as satisfying (zodiac was an early novel and interface was co-written with someone else). The diamond age is probably the best out of the remainder.

[opus]

Will definitely keep an eye out for Snow Crash so....

Just to throw a few more sci-fi book suggestions into the air, I really liked both Dan Simmons' Hyperion series and the Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer.

[redbulljunkie]

Read the first 2 books of the hyperion series recently, and was well impressed. The depth and range of ideas,and reading the second book is like watching the 2nd half of fight club the way it books the first book in a whole new light

[opus]

quoteOriginally posted by redbulljunkie
snow crash and cryptonomicon were his best two. The rest are good enough (easy to read) but not half as satisfying (zodiac was an early novel and interface was co-written with someone else). The diamond age is probably the best out of the remainder.


After a three month wait, the library got in a copy for me just before Xmas so got to read Snowcrash in the end. Pretty good book once I got into it, hard to put down. Can see how people might have said the Matrix used some of its ideas all right.

[Rec]

I recently read a book called Darwinia - which was excellent. It's basic precept was that europe disappeared in 1912 - to be replaced by a whole new ecology, and the effects on the world and throughout the universe.

When I was in secondary school my friend got me into fantasy/sci-fi by lending me all these dragonlance books. While I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole now - the character Raistlin was great for my teenage angst - sorta the same way I feel about my radiohead cd's (although I've been known to pop them on from time to time)

[joeohara]

book decipher by stel pavlou

sci fi movie all 4 alien movies even better if you by the alien quadrology dvd set cause you get the lost directors cut of alien 3 which btw kicks arse i know everyone hates alien 3 but the directors cut kicks arse and is well worth the asking price for the dvd set plus u get directors cuts of all 4 alien movies its got 9 discs in total, ok 20th century fox need to pay me for pushin this product hehehee

[damien]

Any David Fincher work done the way he wants it done is generally good.

[Bootyzilla]

I thought Alien 3 was really good, far better than Alien 4... which I still thought was okay.

I think my favourite Sci-Fi storyline ever (and even at that it's really more of an Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers style clone) is in a videogame called Silent Hill 2. Has anyone ever played it? It's exquisite.

[Bootyzilla]

And movie would have to be Star Trek First Contact, Book is 'The Northern Lights' by Philip Pullman (rave, rave) and TV would be Wonder Woman -)