franknfurter wrote:
oh of course you cant forget doctor who. and also being human but im not sure if thats sci fi or not
Harlan Ellison has made a strong argument that the genre should be called "speculative fiction", because the science is sometimes strictly secondary to the tale being told (for instance, Ellison's own classic short story, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", in which some of AM's abilities go completely unexplained).
Big fan of the field; I've been reading SF just about since I could read, absorbing Heinlein, Niven, Pournelle, Spider Robinson, and all the rest. I also grew up watching
Star Trek, have very nearly memorized the dialog in the Star Wars movies (well, 4-6, anyway, the good ones), and watched the original
Battlestar Galactica, flawed and derivative as it was, because it was the only new SF on TV. (I prefer the remake - the original does not stand the test of time...)
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