Books and movies (Scifi Rant)

[nightblood]

I know we ALL know that movies are never as cool as the books. However, as with every rule, I have found an exception. WHY can't I read Sci/fi? I love quite a few Sci-fi movies. Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick... FLUBBER... So why on earth, after seeing that awesome Vulcan in action, both in the new kick-ass movie AND the old... SOOOO OLD series, can't I bare to READ it?

<Belay this paragraph unless you care to know how truly insane I am.>
I have a theory. Maybe it's not just the fact that it's so highly unlikely that humans run into any other life form, let alone things that have such a FACKING SIMILAR BODY STRUCTURE to us. Maybe it's not only the sheer AMOUNT of different races that really pisses me off. MAYBE it's the fact that NO ONE cares to elaborate on the social condition of their own damned planet. Vulcan/Romulan conflict? Romulans leave and find their own planet. How convenient. We should have sent the south US into space when we had that little CIVIL argument. Woulda spared a lot of bloodshed. Oh! And PLANET-WIDE infestations of something or another. Is that even possible unless spread by water or, I dunno, AIR? Unlikely.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is- WHY must Sci-Fi be so fickle? Something so freaking AWESOME on the screen has to be so insanely boring on paper. WHY!?!?! RAWR

[Duke]

Try 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. It's one of my favorites. Also I get what you're saying about the genre. I often find it very difficult to suspend my disbelief. Sci fi needs more subtlety and plausibility to be taken seriously, but both of those elements are thrown out the window to allow aliens and advanced technology to coexist with human beings. Also wtf, I am bored so I came here to look around woot! Read Ender's Game for your sci-fi book fix, fo real.

[Electus]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for epic undeniable win. Get your Douglas Adams fix.

Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick is good as well.

And Dune isn't bad either, but that one might be pushing it depending on your likes and dislikes.

But really...Hitchhiker's Guide at least. That series has too much win.

Also, Star Trek was a television series far before the books were created. As with many television turned book ideas, they're seldom good.

Also, the Jurassic Park series of novels are quite good, but some people don't like Michael Crichton's style of writing. Sphere by him is good as well.

And just to be the devil's advocate: we didn't have space technology during the Civil War.

[nightblood]

Dec 13, 2009 20:56:44 GMT -5 Electus said:

And just to be the devil's advocate: we didn't have space technology during the Civil War.

Just wanted to add to the sheer nonsense of the idea. :3

[Blackfeathr]

Android's Dream of Electric Sheep I've heard is a very good book. Bladerunner is based off of it (or vice versa...)

I've always been a huge fan of sci fi movies. Books? I never found one tht I like so far. But I've taken a lot of thought and consideration into making my sci fi comic, which I hope will make more plausible sense than sci fi books. xD

[Addie]

Personally, Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster is the only sci-fi book that's ever got me totally hooked, mainly because it has a lot of humor and sarcasm in it. I'd suggest that one if you like less serious sci-fi stuff.