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TheAlchemist

TheAlchemist

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I know a trend when I see one.

How many of y'all mazers count yourself among these?

Dune?
Harry Potter?
Narnia?
Star Wars?

You name it!
 
Dune. DUNE. DUNE.

Seriously, I'm not as much of a nut as I used to be, but I'm still heavily involved in the scholarly Dune community, and involved in the fight against those who now control the estate (some are bad people, some are just weak people following bad people). It's a loooooonnnnnng story.

I pretty much am into all serious literary SF. (And though I like some Fantasy as well, I don't lump the two together) And some of the lightweight stuff too, not everything has to be serious.

A lot of people only see/read the junkfood pulp SF, but the truth of it is that ever since it's first days (which go back, way back. I've read SF from over 150 years ago!) SF has been one of the single most important types of literature. It allows examination of humanity in ways that non-SF simply cannot (what better way to discuss the problems of stagnating government/society over the long-term than the 10,000 years of stagnation preceding the first Dune book?) and has always been both a think-tank for scientific advancement (a LOT of real advancement has come out of SF and it's authors. Arthur C. Clarke for example invented the geo-stationary satelite) and also a serious forum for social criticisim.

Some of the most important works of our times are SF. A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, We (Russian book, similar to BNW), 1984, the list goes on and on.

Yup, I'm an SF nerd. Hope to be an SF writer one day too!
 
Dune? Saw it a bunch of times, my mom had a crush on Sting so we watched it lots
Harry Potter? Read it all twice, haven't seen them all yet
Narnia? I read it every decade or so, saw the first movie recently
Star Wars? Saw the REAL first one in the back seat of a 1976 Delta 88 oldsmobile when I was three, been a fan ever since, death to Jar-Jar. Wore out the tapes on the VCR when we got Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi​

Lord of the Rings?
Xanth?
Starship Troopers?
Bladerunner?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?


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AToE said:
Dune. DUNE. DUNE.

Seriously, I'm not as much of a nut as I used to be, but I'm still heavily involved in the scholarly Dune community, and involved in the fight against those who now control the estate (some are bad people, some are just weak people following bad people). It's a loooooonnnnnng story.

I pretty much am into all serious literary SF. (And though I like some Fantasy as well, I don't lump the two together) And some of the lightweight stuff too, not everything has to be serious.

Some of the most important works of our times are SF. A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451,
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I have read Farenheit 451 as well, I plan to do more digging through my mother in law's SF collection this summer :) (that was before she turned to <gasp> romance novels...) but a lot of my early reading when I'd demolish a novel in a sitting was more historical fiction and fantasy than Sci-Fi... (actually almost named my horse Science Fiction but settled instead for Fantacie)
 
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I never got into Dune, despite many tries in my youth. I love the others, though. Just watched PJ's first vlog for start of filming of the Hobbit, and I sincerely he dickers with that less than he did LOTR. The films would have been a lot better if I'd never read the books.

I'd sure love to work on a film like that, though. Why I went into science instead of making things I'll never know.:p
 
Displaced Hick said:
Star Wars, but I don't count episodes 1-3 as real star wars movies rather as attempts to see how many special effects can be crammed in.:)
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I'm with you on that. 2 and 3 were ok (maybe just seemed good compared to 1) but episode 1 should be recalled, burned, and refilmed. Horrible.

I also hate all the FX they added into the originals, I need to find some old VHS that aren't contaminated.

Lucas was heavily influenced by Dune, the number of direct Dune references (or stolen things, depending on who you talk to!) in Star Wars is staggering. Of course, probably more than half of the SF that came after Dune drew from Dune in one way or another, just like the Fantasy genre draws from Tolkien.

What I like about Star Wars isn't so much it's place as any kind of serious SF, it's just great story telling, great film making, just great. ;D
 
wildoates said:
I never got into Dune, despite many tries in my youth. I love the others, though. Just watched PJ's first vlog for start of filming of the Hobbit, and I sincerely he dickers with that less than he did LOTR. The films would have been a lot better if I'd never read the books.

I'd sure love to work on a film like that, though. Why I went into science instead of making things I'll never know.:p
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Ooooo, I'll have to find that vlog!

I thought he did pretty good with the LoTR movies, some really weird changes, but most of the changes they made I understood the reason behind.

It's funny, me and Aaron just had a discussion about bad changes to the LoTR movies when we were hanging out at the Mazer Cup!
 
AToE said:
I love the Lynch film as a piece of weird film, but you've got to read the book. It is seriously amazing. :)
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I'll have to see if my mom still has it, the first time I tried it was a bit much for me.

I think the weirdest film I ever saw was Naked Lunch.
 
Chevette Girl said:
I'll have to see if my mom still has it, the first time I tried it was a bit much for me.
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It's definitely a heavy read, but kind of alight adventure novel compared to some of the later books (note: NOT the new books by his son and some hack, stay away from those...) which get really cerebral and in many cases depressing.
 
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Isaac Asimov- my first real dive into S-F. The Foundation Series, I Robot Series, Caves of Steel, Nightfall...

Star Trek

Dune- read the first book, thought the movie was good (own a copy).

Most S-F movies, even if they really suck.
 
mmclean said:
Isaac Asimov- my first real dive into S-F. The Foundation Series, I Robot Series, Caves of Steel, Nightfall...

Star Trek

Dune- read the first book, thought the movie was good (own a copy).

Most S-F movies, even if they really suck.
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Isaac Asimov was also my first real adventure into S-F via the Space Ranger books under the pen name Paul French, I was 9 or so when I read all of them, 1977 or so. I do remember seeing all 3 of the original Star Wars movies in the theater.
 
TheAlchemist said:
I know a trend when I see one.

How many of y'all mazers count yourself among these?

Dune?
Harry Potter?
Narnia?
Star Wars?

You name it!
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All! Plus Babylon 5, Fringe, the Ender Series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, etc.), Starship Troopers, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider series combines fantasy and Sci-Fi, also her Pegasus, Crystal Singer, Tower and Hive, Petaybee, Catteni, and Acorna series.
 
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