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07-04-2006, 01:05 AM
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You may be right about the "The Lathe of Heaven." I've only seen it on video and I thought I remember it being a SciFi Channel production, but I'm not sure.
Don't ask me the particulars, but it seemed if you were close to the protagonist, you had some "feeling" about being carried along from one reality to the next. His chess playing friend seems to indicate this sometime during the movie. Of course, it's just the Descartean "I think, therefore I am" theory redone as speculative fiction. 
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07-04-2006, 11:00 AM
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Lathe of Heaven My old boss had a grainy VHS dub of it that he'd recorded when it ran the first time in Boston. I made a dub of that & for years it was the only way to see it I just discovered.
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07-04-2006, 11:06 AM
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This thread is amusing in one way in particular. That being how people with interest in music & technology all seem to congregate. A rememberance -
Years back when I was at ADS, we were all getting drunk at the semi-regular Friday summer afternoon BBQ. The topic of Sci-Fi came up. I was amazed that so many people were into it, had seen the same films, read the same books, etc. as I had. I made a comment to that effect as to how incredible that was. One of the more seasoned responded - "How do you think we all got into this business?"
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07-04-2006, 11:53 AM
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Yeah, seems like I read a couple times that people have come up to Shatner & Nimoy at ST conventions & told them how Trek inspired them into going into engineering/physics...Dr Smith inspired me into becoming a conniving, cowardly Pompous Ass...think it worked ? <grin>
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07-04-2006, 11:57 AM
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Hahahha ... Hey Sandy ... I remember Dr Smith .... Lost In Space!
Love that show :-)
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07-04-2006, 12:15 PM
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As sneaky 'n' connivin' as Dr Smith was, and as hopelessly SQUARE 'n' anal-retentive as John & Maureen Robinson were, I'm surprised they let Will be around him...
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07-04-2006, 06:47 PM
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About "The Lathe of Heaven," seems we're both right. There was a PBS version from 1980 and an A&E version from 2002 which is the one I was referring to, called "Lathe of Heaven." The 2002 version apparently changes the book around quite a bit (been more than 30 years since I read the book, and my recollections were a bit vague). All this gratis Wikipedia.
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07-20-2006, 06:51 PM
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Favorites:
Alwyas enjoyed Babylon 5, very well written with a well defined cast. Space: Above and Beyond Twilight Zone X-Files A one year show called Brimstone with John Glover as the devil - a perfect role for him. SG-1 - Good stories and cast. Not so favorites: Andromeda Earth - Final Conflict Space 1999 too many to list Movie favorites Alien - Aliens The first Star Wars Day the earth stood still Starship troopers 5 Million Years to Earth Lots of VERY BAD Sci-Fi movies out there... Most favorite sci-fi book - Armor by John Steakley
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07-20-2006, 07:32 PM
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Asimov. Anderson, Clark, Heinlein for books.ewest Book Read' Orbit' author Vance?
Movies: Forbidden Planet, Day Earth Stood Still, Org. war of the Worlds, Org. Time Machine, 1st Planet of the Apes, Silent Running, First three Star Wars, 2nd Star Trek, Boy and his dog for weird. A few others. Bad Sci movies: First Star Trek, New War of Worlds, New Time Machine, Shape of things to come too many to list so bad can't remember the titles Good tv: Time tunnel, first star trek and Voyager,outer limits, twilight zone, time tunnel, bad tv Lost in space, space 1999, its about time, ds9, etx. texas hit the nail on the head. too much is repeated. I want to see new ideas not old movies done a new way. Very few sequels are good.
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07-21-2006, 09:53 AM
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08-11-2006, 09:48 PM
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Just to be different, a couple of my favorites are (probably not remembered by many):
Movies: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (aka Doppelganger) The Questor Tapes TV Series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (everybody knows this one) UFO Jeff
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08-13-2006, 01:01 AM
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What about Spaceballs? One of the funniest movies ever for any Si-fi fan. You can only watch it once every 10 years though, it is not funny if you remember the punch-lines.
I have to confess to being a big Dr. Who fan. I also love the 50's TV shows like Rocky Jones Space Ranger and old time radio shows like X-1 or Space Patrol, it is fun to see just how far off of real science they could get. Victor
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08-13-2006, 01:54 AM
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Been a SciFi nut since ~ 1968 or so. Have every SciFi book I've ever bought (yea, lots of them!)
Favorites... Authors: Mike Resnick, Jack L. Chalker, anything by Heinlein.... Books: Slater's Plant ~ Harris Moore The Engine's of God ~ Jack McDevitt Dhalgren ~ Samuel R. Delany (read this one 3 times and still don't follow all the alliteration) Demons at Rainbow Bridge ~ Jack L. Chalker Santiago series ~ Mike Resnick Most hated... That all the good series get canceled. Oh yea, and that Amanda Tapping is already married .... TV Series... Loved UFO and Space:1999 Watched Lost in Space but still think it was so cheesy .... both the series and the movie .... Would love to see a series based on Resnick's Santiago series/character Classics... Movies: Blade Runner (almost as good as the book, and so well produced) General.... There isn't enough good SciFi on TV. Period. If man can think of it, eventually we'll do it.
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08-13-2006, 04:31 PM
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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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08-13-2006, 04:47 PM
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Lots of my favorites have already been mentioned. A recent movie that was not mentioned that I thougth had merit is "Minority Report." I thought there were real some possibilities for US culture in the next 50 years. Not the fortelling of the future, but the constant marketing/advertising, identification and tracking of individuals, virtual computer interfacing. I thought the transportation/freeways were interesting, but that'd require serious investment in infrastructure.
As far as books, I've really enjoyed Orson Scott Card recently. David Weber's Honor Harrington series was fun. If you are into "social science fiction" I think Octavia Butler is amazing with her Parable series. She passed away back in 2/06. Real loss to the genre. Worst sci-fi movie: There are so many, but a recent example that I haven't seen mentioned here has got to be "Signs". As with most bad science fiction, the concept was pretty cool, but it fell totally apart at the end. I have to believe that a people that can develop the technology for interstellar travel, would have the ability to determine that 3/4 of the world they are trying to invade is covered in poison.
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