Science fiction

I'm with Grumpygator; H.G.Wells. He was a heck of a smart guy. War of the Worlds was written in 1896, I think. Really advanced ideology and he has lots of titles. I liked 'The day of the Comet'.

Any fans of Terry Brooks?

[QUOTE="C-Bag, post: 550823, member: 45394" I really have no idea why they changed and chopped off so much.[/QUOTE]

Since when has Hollywood ever been accused of following the original story faithfully?
(it must have happened but must have been a movie I never watched)

I grew up on Science fiction and Westerns. Mostly got started when I was about 11 yr old. My mother went to the hospital for a few days to give birth to my younger sister. She didn't have anyone to watch us so left us all in the care of my older brother who was 13. OH joy! Any way she bought a slew of books and mags for us to read while she was gone doing the deed. (Actually this taught me to read more than school ever did.)

Since then I have tried to write Sci-Fi but wasn't too successful. The two books I wrote sold less than half a dozen copies (to friends I guess, who knows?). Guess I really didn't do the research to know what I was writing about. (OR; My writing could have been written rotten.) Could have been worse, I might not have tried at all and always regretted it.

My first contact with SciFi was Verne "From the earth to the moon" (still remember that book after 35 years) then Wells and other "old" authors. More modern western scifi writers like Heinlein or Philip Dick were not available for me at this time - i grew up in Poland and local libraries did have very limited assortment. Luckily they had Lem and quite a collection of soviet authors like Strugacki brothers or Kir Bułyczow.
I recently read one of Cixin Liu books (i think it was "Deaths end") - i find the writing good and story interesting but couldn't stand main protagonist - she constantly made most catastrophic decisions possible for absolutly retarded reasons yet somehow survived

Yeah, many of us learned of science fiction when we were young, and enjoyed it.
I found myself picking up a new book, reading a chapter, and determining it was 'sci-fi'... rather than true science fiction.
In my mind, the difference was whether it challenged my thinking... or was cheesy...
The Jr college I went to, actually had a literature class in Science Fiction... albeit it was taught by a goofball... easy credit...

Heinlein, Clarke, Assimov, etc... all good writers of the time!

Somehow, the fantasy stuff never appealed to me... and with a very few exceptions... the stuff on the big screen and TV is just warmed over sci-fi (the cable channel is appropriately named IMO).
Now one exception to that was the BattleStar Galactica series a decade ago... while it did have too much drama for my taste (and as always on TV... an excessive amount of sexual scenes)... it was fun to watch and kept my attention. Probably the sense of adventure.

Sadly, we as a society seem to have lost our sense of wonder and creativity... replacing it with arguing over politics... however that is a different forum!

I hope some creativity emerges in the future... as current writings and movies and TV are becoming BORING!

Geez... wonder if that is why we have shops full of cool tools and gadgets... grin!

I too grew up reading sci-fi but I don't recall many of the authors. I do remember Verne, Wells, Azimov, Clakre and Bradbury. I tend to like the interstellar novels more than anything. Never was a fan of dragons and hobbits but to each his own. Never was a true Trekkie but still follow the franchise.
It seems funny that yesterday's science fiction has become today's science fact.