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Sandilou:
"Obviously, once the sun goes out, humans switch to some non-solar-based foodchain that the robots find impossible to emulate."
Oh! Is that what they were trying to say. Airhead me had my earplugs in! When watching The Matrix I woke up when bullets started moving in slow motion and Keanu's cape started flapping! Then I switched off again and went back to my diet coke. I was boggle eyed at the helicopter sequence. That still impresses me today. I'm very shallow.
I thought that the trilogy was supposed to be a complex love story set in the style of a legend, but I'm not sure if it worked. Matrix III had me trying to remember the plot from the Matrix II, so I could work out where things had left off. Too much effort, so I switched to eye candy and action mode.
veilchen:
Isaac Asimov is the undisputed master of science fiction, but I must admit that I still enjoy reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". What's more I've had a copy since I was young(er) and my daughter recently found it, read it, and enjoyed just as much as I still do.
G.
Oddysey:
Hitch Hiker's Guide rocks. It's just awesome. Because it doesn't try to be serious, it just screws around and comes up with obviously ridiculous explanations for things. Star Trek is the same way: at a certain point, it's obvious that the "science" bit is just a support for the actual story. Obviously non-serious explanations, those I enjoy. But "trying and failing miserably" SF, like most of the Hollywood pap that people here are convinced is actual SF . . . must . . . stick . . . sharp object . . . into . . . brain.
cwieberdink:
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 July 31, 23:04:33
Isaac Asimov is the undisputed master of science fiction, but I must admit that I still enjoy reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". What's more I've had a copy since I was young(er) and my daughter recently found it, read it, and enjoyed just as much as I still do.
G.
I LOVE Asimov (Heinlein too, whatever your opinion of him may be, I loved his stuff). Read tons of SF books in high school. Not much since. I really have gotten into procedural thrillers. Love them. Kathy Reichs is the best because she IS what she writes about. Good science (forensic pathology) in those plus good writing.
Chris
Darkstormyeve:
I have read all of Kathy Reiches stuff too and enjoy it for the very same reason that you stated.
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