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FWIW have read SF most of my life and became a mechanical engineer...
Still prefer reading to TV & movies - favorite authors:
William Gibson
Charles Stross - Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, & more
Neil Stephenson
Tim Powers
Neil Gaiman
K S Robinson - Red Mars trilogy & more - I saw him at a book signing where he talked about his books being made into movies. Someone optioned Red Mars; he says how can you make a movie from it? There is too much going on. The Hollywood guy says don't worry, that's our problem.
movies -
favorites:
Blade Runner
Alien, Aliens, etc.
The Abyss
Repo Man
stinkers:
too many to list them all
Johny Mnemonic - let's take a Gibson short story, throw in major ideas from a couple novels, and get Keannu Reeves to play lead ( IMHO Keannu and a redwood plank have about the same acting ability).
Mission to Mars - had plenty of problems with some future NASA scenes - 'hey, a giant sandstorm came out of nowhere; I think I'll stand here & let it eat me' and the transfer to the Mars orbiter by jumping across - but finding the 4 billion year old aliens under the hill was just too much.
Dune - all I can say is that the SciFi channel did so much better with a lot less money.
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