I suppose this might seem kind of random on here, but during the past maybe 5 or so years I've been enjoying reading (and audiobook listening) science fiction and/or speculative fiction. I'm in no danger of running out of material, but I was wondering if anyone else here is into that kind of stuff and wants to share some of the stuff they liked or would recommend. Doesn't have to be books. Movies, tv, games are fine too.
The only videogame-related that comes to mind is Ready Player One. It's probably safe to say that if you're on this forum you would enjoy this at some level, even if you're not particularly into scifi.
In no particular order:
Dune, parts of the series are a little strange.. but certainly worthwhile.
Stuff by Larry Niven and Niven/Pournelle, I've read almost all of the known-space series, but Protector and Ringworld are favorites. Also A World Out of Time, The Integral Trees, Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno (a really fun modernized Dante's Inferno)
2001: A Space Odyssey, the book was actually written in parallel with the movie script, it explains things better than the movie does of course
Rendezvous With Rama
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Just awesome. This was made into the movie Blade Runner, I haven't seen the movie (maybe some vague memories from when I was a kid) but I've heard the director and screenplay writer never even read the book.
Neuromancer
Probably more will come to mind after I post this, but oh well. It's a random topic anyways, but there it is.
As far as movies go, I've never been a huge movie guy especially as I've gotten older (or maybe too many modern movies i hear about just suck?), but on Amazon Prime I kinda randomly chose to watch the movie Interstellar, and ended up enjoying it quite a bit more than I had expected.
The only videogame-related that comes to mind is Ready Player One. It's probably safe to say that if you're on this forum you would enjoy this at some level, even if you're not particularly into scifi.
In no particular order:
Dune, parts of the series are a little strange.. but certainly worthwhile.
Stuff by Larry Niven and Niven/Pournelle, I've read almost all of the known-space series, but Protector and Ringworld are favorites. Also A World Out of Time, The Integral Trees, Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno (a really fun modernized Dante's Inferno)
2001: A Space Odyssey, the book was actually written in parallel with the movie script, it explains things better than the movie does of course
Rendezvous With Rama
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Just awesome. This was made into the movie Blade Runner, I haven't seen the movie (maybe some vague memories from when I was a kid) but I've heard the director and screenplay writer never even read the book.
Neuromancer
Probably more will come to mind after I post this, but oh well. It's a random topic anyways, but there it is.
As far as movies go, I've never been a huge movie guy especially as I've gotten older (or maybe too many modern movies i hear about just suck?), but on Amazon Prime I kinda randomly chose to watch the movie Interstellar, and ended up enjoying it quite a bit more than I had expected.