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Ok here's my Short List,

Role Playing Games (it's all sci-fi)
AD&D
Star Fleet Battles
Magic the Gathering
Wooden Ships and Iron Men
SCA
Champions
BattleTech
the Morrow Project
and many more

as for the books/movies
Yes,
Dune and Star Wars
Not so much the Harry Potter and Narnia, although I adore Anna Popplewell.

But you have to include the entire SW Universe, all the books, and video games.

Also like a lot of Alternate Reality/History books like SM Stirlings Emberverse and Draka Series. Wanna read a good Book, it's a Hugo winner and the Author is Robert A Heinlein. It's called Starship Troopers. Please don't compare it to the movie.

Star Trek, any of it, even the 1st Movie had good parts. BattleStar Galactica and Star Gate series.

Some of my fav authors in the genre are Fred Saberhagen, Terry Brooks, Michael Crichton, RA Salvatore, Alan Dean Foster, Joel Rosenberg, Michael Moorcock, Issac Asimov.

I could be here all day.

Ya know this is one of the reasons I don't like reality TV. I watch TV to relax and forget about the "real world". It's the same reason I read a book or play a video game like Warcraft. The last thing I want to watch on TV is a reality show of 8 snot nosed tweens trying to screw/fight each other..lol

Thank god for the Writers of Fantasy/Sci-fi!
 
Guinlilly said:
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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Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider was a good read.
 
I haven't read McCaffrey in years, but when I was younger I must have read every Pern book 3 or 4 times! I'll have to go buy them all again sometime and get back into them.
 
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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I have to chip in on this one, like them all.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I really liked and I can't think of the name of another one that I liked, can see the faces, but can't remember the movie name at the moment.
 
Another Science fiction geek here too!

All movies even bad ones and Super hero ones too! I love Xmen.

Star Trek yes...Star Wars no.

Started with early writers...Asimov and Bradbury(sp)? Love more recent ,Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey,Patricia McKillip.

But my first love at 7 years old was and is Robert Heinlein, read everything...at least twice and some many many times through the years. The influence of his books on my future reading choices and honestly on my way of thinking cannot be measured. I also love his heir apparent Spider Robinson. If anyone here has read his Callahans series you'll know what I mean when I say that I find the camaraderie between the regulars on Got Mead very Callahans like. I don't think any of you are aliens...well except maybe Oskaar. Those of you who have met him can of course correct me if I am wrong.;D

Lorri
 
Anne McCaffrey is more fantasy than scifi, but I do enjoy much of her early work. The more recent stuff has been more preachy than entertaining. I like David Eddings too, if we're talking fantasy. I'm rereading the Belgariad and the Malleorean right now.
 
"Anne McCaffrey is more fantasy than scifi, but I do enjoy much of her early work. The more recent stuff has been more preachy than entertaining. I like David Eddings too, if we're talking fantasy. I'm rereading the Belgariad and the Malleorean right now."


Agreed on the McCaffrey, her older stuff was much better.

The Belgariad is one of the best fantasy series in my less than humble opinion. If you like that try the Riddle Master of Hed series from Patricia Mckillipp.

Lorri
 
That's one of the things I love about her Pern books, they pretend to be fantasy, then slowly reveal themselves as SF. As a kid who only read fantasy, it really helped guide me to becoming the SF nut I am today!
 
For Fantasy stuff I'm all about Tad Williams, and now GRR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (which is being made into a super high quality TV series, first episode airs tomorrow!!! I am sooooo stoked!).
 
Lorela said:
I also love his heir apparent Spider Robinson. If anyone here has read his Callahans series you'll know what I mean when I say that I find the camaraderie between the regulars on Got Mead very Callahans like. I don't think any of you are aliens...well except maybe Oskaar. Those of you who have met him can of course correct me if I am wrong.;D
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I forgot about Spider! Yeah, I've drawn a couple of parallel lines between gotmead and Callahans too :) Especially with the sporadic pun-offs ;D
 
wildoates said:
Anne McCaffrey is more fantasy than scifi, but I do enjoy much of her early work. The more recent stuff has been more preachy than entertaining. I like David Eddings too, if we're talking fantasy. I'm rereading the Belgariad and the Malleorean right now.
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Oh man, Eddings is some of the most entertaining, laugh out loud reading ever. I regularly reread Polgara the Sorceress. Gotta disagree with the McCaffrey thing though. Dragonriders started fantasy turned sci-fi - the rest of the series I listed are straight up classic Sci-fi - telepathics set in spaceships to run them, telepaths running shipping lines, a sentient planet who alters people to fit that planet, etc etc.
 
TheAlchemist said:
You've been visiting the site for a couple of months now, but a thread on sci-fi is what it took to get you to say something here?

Well, Welcome to Got Mead Guinlilly.
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Thanks! I'm Jon's (BrimmingHorn's) girlfriend, so I have my own meadmaster in the house for any questions. I just like reading y'alls posts and this one piqued my intrest. ;D
 
TheAlchemist said:
You've been visiting the site for a couple of months now, but a thread on sci-fi is what it took to get you to say something here?

Well, Welcome to Got Mead Guinlilly.
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I cannot speak for Quinlilly but I know this thread plus the vegetarian thread gave me a chance to jump in with something I might know about. You all are the experts about Mead which leaves us newer to the craft folks with little to add and much to (silently) learn.

Lorri
 
LOL, I kinda lump Sci-fi and fantasy all together as that's how they are shelved at Barnes and Noble and Hastings.

I never did dig the Pern Books. They read well, I just couldn't get into the stories so well.

Read all of the Grey Mouser books..good reads, Also the Thieves' World series by Robert Lynn Asprin.

I also read a lot of the shadow run books, a good cross of Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
 
STAR TREK!
I grew up on it every day after school; all 69 episode again and again. I love it. I still can't open a flip phone with the speaker on without wanting to say "Kirk to Enterprise! Now if they'd just give me a Phaser, my morning traffic problems would be gone.

Yes, Star Trek has been grand. And I like it all
The Original Series (TOS)
The Next Generation (TNG)
Deep Space Nine (DS9)
Voyager (VOY)
Even Enterprise was great fun.

The movies can be hit or miss, but some, like The Wrath of Khan, are just stellar.
The books (I've read more than I can count) are always great light reading.
Even the history is fun (I read the book by Herb Solow (Desilu exec) and Robert Justman)
I even like the new "young" Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto)
There's just no end to it all.

Only question I ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?
------ Weird Al Yankovic
 
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