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Robert Heinlein was a favorite sci-fi author of mine when I was in school.
John Wyndham also wrote some excellent stories back in the 1930s/1940s. Some things have since been proven false (he envisaged Venus as a quite habitable, if somewhat hot and humid world, for example), but many of his stories are still quite thought-provoking today.
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Paul, I remember all of those shows you mentioned a couple threads above. They were good, I might've been less discerning then, but I remember enjoying them. Rick, Wow, I agree about Books being better. I'd bet that many people nowadays wouldn't believe that though. (I sound so old, eh?). I used to enjoy reading a variety of things and remember some paperbacks that most people probably never heard of. Anyone read "Martians Go Home"? I think they made a low budget movie about it, but it was no comparison to the Book. Another I remember for some reason was "Rule of the Pagbeasts" I need therapy, I know ... Bill
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btw~ do you know who the ship's captian ( i.e.= leading man) was ? Sparky, Do you mean Leslie Nielsen? I wouldn't have guessed that at all. It's been a long time since I've seen it, I cheated and looked it up. Bill [This message has been edited by Bill Addiss (edited 09-03-2003).]
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Bjarny,
Wow! Men Into Space brings back memories.
I had, just a bit before that, been bitten by the SciFi bug while reading Heinlein's Sixth Column. I then devoured A. E. Van Vogt.
Recently, I've been enthralled with the cyberpunk genre, specifically:
William Gibson, Neuromancer Bruce Sterling, Islands On The Net Neal Stephanson, Snow Crash
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I am partial to Phillip K. Dick stories, at least how they are adapted to screen.
I also enjoy watching Dr. Who when it becomes available.
I partially watch SCi-Fi for the futuristic set design.
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been bitten by the SciFi bug while reading Heinlein's Sixth Column. Rendez-Vous With Rama was the story which introduced me to his work.
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Just saw that "Space 1999" is coming back to cable TV this fall. Can't remember what station...think it might be TBS?
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Surprised it's not SciFi channel. And hey, let's remember... Nowdays, it's called Speculative Fiction
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Speaking of the Sci Fi channel, I'm not sure when this took place. Last summer, the cable television company that serves Columbia, S.C., aimed a camera full-time at an aquarium to occupy a vacant channel, which was awaiting the September start-up of the Science-Fiction Channel. When Sci-Fi replaced the "fish channel," complaints were so numerous that the company was forced to find another channel for the aquarium, which now runs 14 hours per day, sharing time with the Bravo channel. Roger
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