Actually good sci-fi

[HotDogJoe]

I think being exposed to the hog for so long has made a lot of us dismiss the entire genre but there is some good shit out there.

So what are some of dem good sci fi we got, whether they're movies or books?

 

[HatRemovalService]

john carpenters the thing is badass, I’ll try and get back to you on this one

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

Movies:
The Thing (1982)
Project Europa
Blade Runner
stlaker
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Fly (1986)
12 Monkees
Robocop
Starship Troopers
The Terminator
Alien

Books:
Foundation Trilogy
Frankenstein
Dune
Slaughter-house 5
Neuromancer
Ringworld
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Chronicles of Leibowitz
I Am Legend
Starship Troopers
Consider Phlebas
Hyperion

 

[Jims_Maroon_Pants]

I think being exposed to the hog for so long has made a lot of us dismiss the entire genre but there is some good shit out there.

So what are some of dem good sci fi we got, whether they're movies or books?

The expanse, book and TV show are good.

 

[Brooke Shields]

"Beyond the Ice Limit" is the 16-year-gap sequel to the 2000 book "The Ice Limit"

The original story has a large ship of people on a mission to recover a mysterious purple-ish asteroid of unknown elements off of the coast of Peru. It's twice as heavy as anything it's size should be - based on earthly elements, and they can't have the Peruvians in charge of policing their coasts know of their mission or else it would fall into governmental busy-body work and never get excavated(let alone the costs to take it).
Not really science-fiction-y other than the asteroid being mysterious.

But the sequel picks up years after the end of their mission: They were hunted down by a Peruvian captain after his son was killed by the asteroid. The asteroid is a intergalactic seed and is activated by salt, so someone's warm moist hand would act as a grenade if touching it, that's how the first book begins: The man who found it took off his gloves to touch it and explodes.
Well their ship isn't made for warfare and they're taking on water as they're escaping yada yada they decide to dump the asteroid to keep the ship from sinking but this causes a huge explosion and many people die.
Now years later the same company is going on a mission to figure out what is growing from below and what danger it poses to the planet.

 

[Meownaw]

Brazil
Solaris (original)
stlaker
Videodrome
The Fly
Alien
Metropolis
Dark City

 

[BrothermanBW_mybb]

I like all the content related to the Alien/Aliens franchise.

 

[LingerLonger]

Event Horizon
Pandorum
Total Recall (Arnold version)
The Andromeda Strain (1971 version, book is much better)
Cube (1997)
Strange Days
Pitch Black
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Logan's Run
Scanners
Ghost in the Shell
Moon (2009)
The Skin I Live In

 

[Cuphead]

Possessor (2020) was pretty good.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

Event Horizon
Pandorum
Total Recall (Arnold version)
The Andromeda Strain (1971 version, book is much better)
Cube (1997)
Strange Days
Pitch Black
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Logan's Run
Scanners
Ghost in the Shell
Moon (2009)
The Skin I Live In

Event Horizon. Yes
Moon, too

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

Where we at with BSG?

 

['THE NIGGER MAN']

Deathstalker (series) - Wikipedia

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Necroscope - Wikipedia

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[Uncle Floyd]

There's this unknown movie you

Where we at with BSG?

I don't know whether or not I enjoyed it overall (although it IS the only sci-fi tv series I've ever watched straight through), but there were some storylines running through that show.

 

[guest]

I think being exposed to the hog for so long has made a lot of us dismiss the entire genre but there is some good shit out there.

So what are some of dem good sci fi we got, whether they're movies or books?

Watch "Tomorrow's War" on Amazon Prime. Good alien invasion flick, nothing too deep.

tbh I liked Indpendence Day as cheesy as it was.

 

[Not bad]

Neal Stephenson is my favourite author. Both the sci fi (Snow Crash, Diamond Age) and the historical/speculative fiction is a blast to read.

I like William Gibson too. It's a shame Johnny Mnemonic is such a shit movie, because the short story is a great introduction to Gibson.

 

[Uncle Floyd]

Neal Stephenson is my favourite author. Both the sci fi (Snow Crash, Diamond Age) and the historical/speculative fiction is a blast to read.

I like William Gibson too. It's a shame Johnny Mnemonic is such a shit movie, because the short story is a great introduction to Gibson.

I got into Gibson because of an old PC game called Neuromancer that I played as a kid. I thought cyberpunk and its idea of the internet and virtual worlds were so fucking cool back then. Now I wish it all went away.

 

[CutesyMissy]

I like all the content related to the Alien/Aliens franchise.

Alien, Aliens and Alien: Isolation are the only alien related things I've found worthwhile.

Also, games really kick ass when they go sci-fi.

Prey (2017), System Shock 1 and 2 (GOG remakes of course) and Deus Ex (1, Human Revolution and Mankind Divided (skip Invisible War, that consolized turd)) blew my socks off.

 

[Not bad]

I got into Gibson because of an old PC game called Neuromancer that I played as a kid. I thought cyberpunk and its idea of the internet and virtual worlds were so fucking cool back then. Now I wish it all went away.

I think Gibson's idea of cyberspace was much more fascinating than the commercialised and streamlined version we have today. No slick interfaces or Google monitoring, just a free mostly uninhabited space with endless possibilities.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

Forgot to mention, Screamers (1995)
Phillip K. Dick

 

[HotDogJoe]

tbh I liked Indpendence Day as cheesy as it was.

I bought the blu ray recently and rewatched it. It's just an unironically great movie. The effects hold up really well, they actually bother to establish all the characters properly and there's never really a boring part of the film.

I never saw the sequel, thankfully. Kikeywood really is determined to ruin every great franchise there ever was.