Your favorite science fiction

[ArtificialLove]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here!

Are you into science fiction and what are the Top 3 works of scifi for you? It can be books, movies, games, etc.

[devlin85]

I love science fiction, and I would say that my three favorites would be, in first place Ex Machina, second Edge of Tomorrow, and Dune.

[ArtificialLove]

Great! I wish I had the time to binge read absolutely everything Asimov and PKD, and a few others maybe, if I had the time.

Space Odyssey was ahead of its time, but there are some scenes that I truly don't understand I should watch that it's been a while!

ExMachina started almost very good but then as usual anthropomorphism ruined the whole thing, I mean in a nutshell.

I think right now we're sleepwalking into I, Robot and I don't see too many focusing on this, I mean as much as they did and decades before this current reality would be even imaginable for so many, I think for them the writing was on the wall once they saw calculators being replaced with computers, they thought ops, what or "who!"... is next? and then all those fantastic stories were born, which is fascinating, makes you wonder what they would have written if they were alive today! Like their reactions to today and also their predictions! It's so sad they're gone!!!

I came here to publish a short here, in the marketplace, but I'm not so sure if I should? It's an idea that I had I think even before the lockdown but I've started working on it then and I wanted to go with the Amazon program but then there is this giant pile of mostly AI written trash novels there, and it's growing exponentially! Very extremely difficult to be seen, definitely not a good place to start, so just shelved it for more than a year I guess, anyway, a little while ago I was here and I was thinking let me get my feet wet right here! Crypto community! Tech savvy people, solid scifi backgrounds, and they can support me to spend more time and write the rest! Right now, only the first one is good enough to go, but then again, I'm not so sure what should I do?
It's a cross between A.I. (2001) and I, Robot but with even deeper questions, and I guess (and hope) us being the generation who's witnessing this transformation first hand makes it more than fiction, it's sort of tomorrow's newspaper! So I do want to see people's reactions, it'd be very interesting, but I don't know, so should I do it, should I not bother, I don't know!

[BADecker]

Almost anything by E.E. (Doc) Smith: Spacehounds of IPC.





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[ArtificialLove]

I'll check them out!

Thanks!

[red-penguin]

My favorite are dune all movies and fringe the tv series

[BADecker]

I'll check them out!

Thanks!

Welcome. Just remember, if you have time to read/watch sci-fi, you are either rich, or you have too much time on your hands.

[dinokrang]

I'm a fan of classic Asimov - the Foundation series really explores interesting concepts about society and prediction. What are your top picks?

[BADecker]

I'm a fan of classic Asimov - the Foundation series really explores interesting concepts about society and prediction. What are your top picks?

The 'Lucky Starr' series is interesting, even though they are young adult books. Asimov writing as Paul French. In '... The Pirates of the Asteroids', Lucky flies his ship, the Shooting Star, through the Sun.

[philipma1957]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here!

Are you into science fiction and what are the Top 3 works of scifi for you? It can be books, movies, games, etc.

So many.

"STRANGER in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlien

"I Robert" by Issac Asimov There is a movie with will smith

Altered Carbon books By Morgan. There is a Netflix version

I have read all of dune books but felt that it trailed m off  books 4 and 5.

I liked the first three men in black movies.

The first matrix movie.

I could go on and on.

[dinokrang]

Sci-fi often reflects our hopes and fears about the future. For me, Neuromancer stands out—what’s a book or film that shaped your view of technology?

[ArtificialLove]

I, Robot (2004) is literally happening before our eyes, and probably without the happy ending!

I have a very long list of books, movies, and games, those that I've mentioned here, and very popular ones like both Solaris, the A.I. (2001), the first Terminator, RoboCop, etc. and underrated ones like The Thirteen Floor (1999), Strange Days (1995), Impostor (2001), RepliKate (2002), Screamers (1995), Her (2013), just to name a few.

[georgino22222]

As a TV series I'm fascinated by Star Trek, as a book by Isaac Asimov, as a game by the Fallout series.

[BADecker]

I, Robot (2004) is literally happening before our eyes, and probably without the happy ending!

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We are at the beginning times of 'I Robot'. Why? Because the depiction of 'I Robot' is the idea that robots became literally and truly sentient. We are exceedingly far from that.

Our AI is simply combined programming... sentience imitation and parroting, but not true sentience. We don't really have a clue regarding what true sentience really is. True sentience includes all kind of extremely complex inter-reactions of multitudes of elements and 'electronics' in our brains... and maybe outside of our brains. And we don't know what there is beyond this (dimensionally) that we can't measure. We don't even know what exists 'out there'.

Does our AI truly become sentient? Or is it only mimicking the physical aspects of sentience? The benefit of AI might be that we can use it and its mimicking ability to figure out more 'parts' of true sentience.

[aysha9853]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here!

Are you into science fiction and what are the Top 3 works of scifi for you? It can be books, movies, games, etc.

Has to be Neuromancer by William Gibson or Dune by Frank Herbert for me!

[ArtificialLove]

Great ones indeed!

[aysha9853]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here!

Are you into science fiction and what are the Top 3 works of scifi for you? It can be books, movies, games, etc.

its not my most favorite personally but i do have a great interest in dune politics ecology and religion all in one. blade runner is another one so deep in philosophical all about identity and what is actually mean for us to be who we are. it is a great palyground for so many ideas and great stories

[BADecker]

Science fiction is quite mundane. Reality is way wilder than science fiction. You can see it in Larry Niven's (and Michael Flynn and Jerry Pournelle) sci-fi "Fallen Angels." In that book, look for the 'danes. The aren't Danish people. They are the mundanes of the society of the story.

Back when the book was published, it had a bibliography (in hard cover versions) that showed that the problem is not global warming. The problem is just the opposite... global cooling.

The big point is that the story is science fiction. And the backdrop for almost all science fiction rarely fits reality. All that it does is attempt to train sci-fi readers away from the truth of life and the universe.

[goldkingcoiner]

Flubber

[BADecker]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).