Laserblast(1978)

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You're welcome, but you may not be as grateful after you've read some of the book. He was a gifted writer who had an interesting life. Black, homosexual, and a genius, he attended the Bronx High School of Science in the 50s and 60s, where he met the woman who would be his wife. He describes some gay sex in the book, so be aware of that. He's very frank about many things about his life, which is refreshing and quite interesting, especially coming from his unique perspective. Again, all the gay stuff is offputting, but I can't deny the man was a gifted writer.

I have the Criterion version of The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Zardoz is fucking weird. I watched it back in the 90's. I loved the Community parody.

IofBS was scary as shit. Great acting, too!

Andromeda Strain is an excellent book.

Demon Seed is campy and awful.

Just looked up Imajica. I'm familiar with Clive Barker's Hellraiser, which gave me bad dreams, but it was quite original both visually and conceptually. It's not the sort of movie I watch because I'm kind of squeamish. Amazon reviews of Imajica are incredibly positive, so I'll have to give it consideration, although a 900 page book looks kind of daunting.

Feel the same way about Heinlein. His 40s and 50s SF were great, but he went off the rails beginning with Stranger in a Strange Land. Time Enough For Love was shocking both then now in its advocacy of his preferred style of incest. That sort of thing should have been a wake up call to the SF community on what kind of people they had in the community. If you're not aware of the child abuse perpetrated by Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband Walter Breen, look up an article called Breendoggle, written in 1963. Their daughter, who now goes by Moira Greyland, recently wrote a book discussing her experience growing up with these pedophiles and how the SF community allowed, for decades, mind you, known pedophiles to operate. Having a background in attending SF conventions, working the Renaissance Faire in California (when at the time there was just the two, both run by the same non-profit), and the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), I recognized many of the names she mentioned as child molesters. "The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon" is her book, published by Castalia House.

YW. I'm enjoying the suggestions and conversations here. My main SF exposure was in the 70s and 80s. I largely stopped reading much SF in the 90s, partly because I didn't recognize any of the names any longer and partly because a lot of what I saw being published looked dull.

I rediscovered PK Dick in the 90s and read a whole bunch of his novels when I could find them, and Lawrence Sutin's very good biography. I read perhaps too much about PKD and internalized some of his ideas on subjective reality. I tend to be the kind of literary nerd who overdoses on one writer for too long. For example, when I was 19, I discovered James Joyce and read through everything he wrote, including Finnegans Wake. I got WAY too involved with that one. If a book requires you to buy a bunch of other books (references, explication, biography, etc.) to understand it, it's just much too complicated.

I read some novels by Samuel Delany in the 80s and 90s, not realizing exactly how fucking queer he is and that nearly everything he wrote was some version of what they now call queer lit. Dhalgren is a genius work, but the gay porn makes is really hard to read. After reading his memoir, The Reflection of Light in Water, about his early life in Manhattan until he was in his early 20s, I discovered much of his sexual experiences and fetishes made their way into his work. I hesitatingly recommend that novel because it has a Joycean character in that it tells the story from multiple perspectives and is about creating a circular, repeating mythology that echos events with multiple variations. It seems to be about the novel itself as it tells the story of its writing and re-writing. It's fascinating, but again, the fucking gay porn really gets in the way of a good but very bizarre story.

The only Frank Herbert I ever read was Dune, and that was a slog. I thought it was very well written, but for my teenage mind it was much too verbose. Herbert was brilliant at world building, I'll give him great credit for that. I'll look into the last two you mention.

Andromeda Stain was prophetic with the current coronavirus.

God Told Me To (1976)

The Ultimate Warrior (1975)

Thanks for sharing!

zardoz is a weird movie.

The OG Westworld was great... Futureworld... not so much...

Interesting commentary on sci-fi.

I've read many of those. There is some good stuff being written now as well.

Soylent green?

How about Rollerball?

Dark Star is good. Silent running is depressing. Despecialized Star Wars is a must.

The Shape of Things To Come. Pretty good old 70's sci-fi. Cheezy but good.

Damnation Alley.

YOu want a good modern science fiction TV show check out 12 Monkey's. On Hulu. Under-rated show.

Lots of bookfags here.

sci-fy and fantasy are seperate and completely unequal genres, faggot

The Quiet Earth.

Slaughterhouse Five (1972) - Read the book.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - A must for any Bowie fan.

Wizards (1976) - Ralph Bakshi classic. See Fritz the Cat.

Silent Running (1972) - First scifi I ever saw.

Logan's Run!

movies are ok for the lesser minds... BOOKS are where it's at, home-skillet!

If you're a sci-fi geek, take the time to read the Ringworld series by Larry Niven. If you've already done so, we should like hang out and stuff.

Yes, I'm aware that a number of these are foreign films, such as Solaris (USSR) Fantastic Planet (France), and Colossus (Canada), but my point remains that the 70s was a time when such movies were able to be made.