QOTD 25 August 2023 - What's your favorite piece of science fiction?

[pure moon]

[random pelican]

NASA

[primal socket]

Dune

[random pelican]

(Ready Player One)

[pure moon]

@ionic ruin Shots fired

[random pelican]

[pure moon]

Gotta go with Deep Space Nine

[pure moon]

Fight fight fight

[dusty wyvern]

Maybe Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
not sure

[still axle]

I am not sure why I was having such a hard time with this question when the answer is, as it often is, Gundam.

Specifically Hathaway's Flash, I think.

[random pelican]

(Shit, sorry for ping)

[spiral flower]

My favorite Scifi book series would have to be:
The Locked Tomb
Dune
The Expanse
anything written by Octavia Butler
The Murderbot Diaries
Red Rising series.

[ionic ruin]

nw i never mind

[broken wasp]

Frankenstein is one of my favorites

[spiral flower]

TV shows: Westworld. No competition.

I still think about that show and what a travesty it was that HBO canceled it

[pure moon]

https://images.app.goo.gl/v9rV6VrMc9CfBKrU6

[still axle]

rude

[broken wasp]

The Orville for the less serious

[pure moon]

Just finished orville, loved it

[near pasture]

Harry Potter Star Wars and Percy Jackson are my top 3 favorites

[pure moon]

2 out of 3 if those are fantasy

[dusty wyvern]

my favorite sci-fi is the illiad

[still axle]

(also I think we all understand that Harry Potter specifically can bring up some feelings, just to cut it off, QOTD is not the place to discuss those feelings)

[brave flicker]

evangelion :3

[still axle]

Saw someone mention Frankenstein and it's weird but I never consider that SciFi, but it definitely is.

Not sure why I don't see that.

[dusty wyvern]

it's often brought up as one of the earliest popular pieces of sci-fi

[still axle]

Same with The Time Machine and 50k Leagues

I'm just like "those are old adventure books and a horror novel" including Frankenstein. But they all are, I think.

[dusty wyvern]

50k leagues is sci-fi? I've never heard a plot synopsis and assumed it was about someone/folks in a submarine or smth

[near pasture]

I mean. All of them are fantasy but I guess Harry Potter and Percy Jackson aren't sci-fi unless you look at it through zoologist point of view.

[pure moon]

It's a scifi submarine

[still axle]

They're not Sci Fi under any POV

[pure moon]

Star Wars is acceptable because lasers

[still axle]

pew pew

I am tempted to add in Spaceballs

[dusty wyvern]

the people who say "star wars is not science fiction" are the people whose opinions I ignore

[still axle]

https://tenor.com/view/gigi-andalucia-gigi-hathaway-noa-noa-gundam-gif-21972564

Anyways Hathaways Flash is gorgeous

[pure moon]

I mean technically it does fall more under fantasy than sci-fi. But that argument is usually made by people who are comparing Star wars to Star Trek

Obviously compared to Star Trek Star wars isn't very sci-fi

Let's face it, the Jedi are just space wizards

[primal socket]

In categorisation of movies, books etc. I vehemently oppose applying both scifi and fantasy to titles. It's a completely irrational pet peeve but drives me nuts

[pure moon]

I think it's more fair to say that Star wars is a fantasy story told in a Sci-Fi setting

[still axle]

There was always a very gatekeepy, or at least there was, a very snobbish way of looking at TV and movie SciFi as lesser back in the day.

[pure moon]

Yeahhhh

[near pasture]

The Divergent series was pretty good

[hazy sundial]

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[pure moon]

https://tenor.com/view/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-marvin-robot-computer-hates-me-gif-24150519

[primal socket]

Alan Rickman's best performance

[safe dove]

Tough to say, but I still regard the original Day The Earth Stood Still as one of most important, and best, sci-fi films of all time

A bitting piece of social commentary in the midst of McCarthyism

[pure moon]

Man why is she wearing that

[safe dove]

Listen she didn’t have time to put on anything else ok

[viral orbit]

Honestly maybe inception. God I fucking love that movie and just how much of a mind fuck it is

[blazing trench]

ST: Voyager

[viral orbit]

Wider universe wise: I love the fallout universe, also control

[dusty wyvern]

TAKE
CONTROL

[safe dove]

Also OG Twilight Zone. I’m a huge Twilight Zone fan

[pure moon]

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-kathryn-janeway-get-out-gif-13880437

[blazing trench]

Nu-uh, I know it's worse than most other series, but I love it for it's silliness

[finite temple]

Shadowrun Dragonfall if it counts! but it's high fantasy and cyberpunk!

otherwise The Expanse books are really good!

[crystal nacelle]

I don't read/watch much sci-fi so the pool to choose from is kinda small. That being said, Fringe (tv show), The Host (book), and Star Wars (movies)

[blazing trench]

Or if we're talking about books, Tales of Pirx the Pilot and The Star Diaries, both by Stanisław Lem

[spiral flower]

I completely forgot about video games. Fallout and the Remedy Universe are some of my favorites. The Outer Worlds is another.

[primal socket]

It's such a good mix

[short hawk]

I think you misspelled Outer Wilds. 😉

[dusty wyvern]

oo, yeah
I know you were making a joke but yeah Outer Wilds was great

[pure moon]

https://tenor.com/view/outer-wilds-gif-22858957

[spiral flower]

Outer Wilds has been on my Steam list forever but I keep getting distracted.
I adore the raypunk aesthetic of Outer Worlds, and the soundtrack is preem.

[rancid iris]

star trek

[near pasture]

40K is pretty good

[slate token]

Knights of the old Republic

[sturdy veldt]

we wrote short stories and one of them was a sci fi unit so i choose my sci fi short storu

[vast siren]

Mass Effect has/had so much potential and EA being in charge of it has fucked it up. I still love it tho.
Also Pikmin is kinda underrated as a Sci-Fi universe.

[spiral flower]

Mass Effect deserves a Resident Evil/FF7 remake. Not a half done remaster.

[elder quarry]

The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

I read it when I was in school and had a lot of time to myself

Very good

I like the TV show too

!

Just realised the latest episode has been released today

[primal socket]

I love asimov's work but didnt get much out of the first few of the tv show

[wooden mason]

I guess Star Wars and Star Trek for visual media. For books I don't read much sci fi but I remember I really liked I, Robot when we read it in high school.

[elder quarry]

I like how the TV show fleshes out the empire more and we get to see imperial politics

[near pasture]

All Tomorrow and Man After Man are good sci-fi stories about how the authors would imagine what humans would look like in the future.

[kindred fulcrum]

Star wars

[fair lichen]

Play Outer Wilds.

[spiral flower]

I have to finish Jedi Survivor (I abandoned it to spend 325hrs in TOTK), Phantom Liberty, Alan Wake 2, and Starfield first.

[analog kernel]

Illuminae Files

[spiral flower]

Those books were so good

[analog kernel]

Ikr! They're my favourite books

[still axle]

Oh! I completely forgot about Mute. Love that movie and it's kind of a great version of what I call future normal where it's this place and time with all this tech but it's obvious it builds off what we already have in a lot of ways

[small shell]

first thing that came to mind is Rocky horror

[olive sorrel]

Scp

[safe dove]

Never read the books, but iv been watching the show and it’s pretty cool so far

[cerulean kettle]

Idk if this counts, but I LOVE Infinity Train

[visual reef]

stalker

followed closely by solaris

[marble fjord]

Robocop
it's so ridiculous and yet profound right where it needs to be, along with being able to make you feel

[kindred fulcrum]

Just wondering how far into jedi survivor

[spiral flower]

I already read all the spoilers, but I think I was starting the final third of the storyline. Totk has consumed my life since it launched.

[kindred fulcrum]

Yeah i might try botw and totk at some point

[stark mason]

For favourite sci-fi movie, Alien takes top spot for me. Mass Effect for video game, and Andor for tv.

[zinc tinsel]

Honestly if Sci-fi RPGs count then probably mother