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- ribit0
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.
- ukit0
This is the thread where we finally find out how big of nerd QBNers actually are...
- tank0
- ukit0
- inteliboy0
- the manga is a damn masterpiece.inteliboy
- classicneandersthal
- Doesn't get better than this... Geniusnecromation
- ukit0
- OGscarabin
- Life changing... Well for me anyway!
necromation - life changing for all, i would posit. sci-fi has inspired everything from cell phones to the internetscarabin
- marshall mccluan inspired the internetLlyod
- 74LEO0
- shame that 'jumper' copied the idea and never promoted the book.airey
- of 'the stars' i mean.airey
- Jumper?74LEO
- I wonder if they lifted the author's name for the character on Babylon 5. (played by Chekov from Star Trek)CyBrainX
- @cybrain
they did to pay homage to the original sci-fi author.74LEO - yeah hollywood has teh ability to do that . look at AVATAR and AVATAR-The Last Airbender.74LEO
- PonyBoy0
- YESduckofrubber
- +1356cannonball1978
- I love this book. One of my first sci-fi reads and the most memorable.Tanj
- YES, entire series.Juddly
- Dittosausages
- monospaced0
- loved the sentient door that wouldn't open til he paid the overdue bill. golden.airey
- Can we install those on client sites?Amicus
- No one in. No one out, till the Bills paid. :)Amicus
- Way ahead of his time.monospaced
- exador10
David Brin, startide rising, the uplift war
Asimov (everything by him)
Heinlein (everything by him)
Greg Bear, eon, eternity, anvil of stars, infinity concerto
John Barnes, A million open doors
Melissa F Scott, Burning Bright, Trouble and her friends
Sherri S Tepper, Grass, Raising the Stones, Sideshow
Orson Scott Card, Enders Game, Worthing Saga
Guy Gavrial Kay, A Song for Arbonne, Tigana, Fionovar Tapestry, The Lion's of Al-Rassan
Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, Down and out in the magic KingdomI've been a sci-fi fan my whole life....was raised on it...my mom is a super big sci-fi fan, and thus, my brother and I had a huge library of her books to look at and read as we grew up.....i knew who heinlein, asimov and clarke were before i probably finished learning the alphabet lol.....
anyhow, the books listed above are what i would consider some of my favs, and definitely my fav authors....