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Intelligent SF can you name some?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Apr 19, 2007
It's ok. It certainly hasn't plummed the depths of idiocy that was series 4 yet. I particularly like Xander's new Nick Fury look, but there is some 'odd' stuff that as yet makes no sense at all.
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Apr 19, 2007
Ooh! I might have to go buy it now! you got me all excited! lol
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Apr 19, 2007
Hint - read 'em, bag 'em, keep them in as good condition as you can and then sell 'em on e-bay when the collection appears. Somebody will take them off your hands.
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Apr 19, 2007
Noooo! I cant sell Buffy stuff! Maybe my kids will, or my grandkids. I have most of it on VHS (complete with mixed up episodes) and I would like it all on DVD too... Couple of weatcher's guides... I'm no completist for figures and stuff, but the comic will complete the collection. Have you seen the all together box set? Oooh, wish I had that sort of disposeable income to throw away! But yes, I feel I must get the individual comics and then mebbe the whole volume too... Damn that Whedon. Damn him!
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Apr 19, 2007
The altogether box-set? of dvds? 
My wife has one that sits in the corner of the living room, next to her complete set of Angel. She likes to contemplate them while cuddling her brand new Mr Gordo and being kicked in the head by her Spike Puppet.
Seriously though, you don't need two copies of the same thing...
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Apr 19, 2007
Yes and no... The VHS will die and I'd like to have them rotting away slowly but reminding me of the heady days when to own something like a TV series you needed a whole wall for it... And the DVDs can actually be watched. I'm the same with Vinyl... I've been known to buy a picture disc and a CD so I can listen to one and keep the other looking gorgeous 
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Crescent Posted Apr 19, 2007
Speaking of comics, and intelligent sci-fi. Just finished Watchmen for the local graphic novel discussion group. Forgotten how good it was, almost perfectly crafted. It should carry a warning about how it will suck you into comics and so empty your pockets....
BCNU - Crescent
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Apr 19, 2007
Oh yeah, Watchmen still rocks, as does most of Moore's output from that period. Even Swamp Thing still reads well, despite it's age and Moore's relative newness to comics.
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Aug 16, 2012
One of my favourite,funniest and intelligent SF authors has died.
Harry Harrison the author of Make Room,Make Room,The Stainless Steel Rat and Galactic Bill died yesterday. 
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Feb 9, 2013
Just discovered that practically all Gordon R Dickson's early SF catalogue is available for Kindle including the Dorsai novels for a very reasonable price for each.I'm in heaven..
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller Posted Feb 9, 2013
I love his Dragon + The George novels, none of the current scribblers in Fantasy can do historical stories like these with innate humour like G.R.D. could, L.Sprague De Camp was another author who could do it and do it well.
(Just noticed it's 6 years since my last comment in this thread...)
Intelligent SF can you name some?
tucuxii Posted Feb 9, 2013
Nineteen Eighty Four
Brave New World
Gulliver's Travels
Intelligent SF can you name some?
KB Posted Feb 10, 2013
Very little of Gulliver's Travels is based on science. The whole Laputa segment refers to science a lot, but it relies more on pure imagination and anti-science parody, if anything.
It's a very intelligent piece of *imaginative* fiction, but it's only "science fiction" by the loosest possible definition.
Intelligent SF can you name some?
tucuxii Posted Feb 10, 2013
In my opinion good intelligent science fiction holds a mirror up to society and doesn't necessitate conforming to a nerdy degree of technical detail or to the current scientific consensus or for that matter the consensus during Swift's time.
Doesn't Lemuel Gulliver.....
"explore strange new worlds, seek out new life forms and new civilizations, and boldly go where no man has gone before."
....and Swift then uses them to parody the nature of society in of his own time.
Intelligent SF can you name some?
tucuxii Posted Feb 10, 2013
....on that basis I'm adding The Tempest
Intellegent SF can you name some?
ITIWBS Posted Feb 10, 2013
For a film of the character, Robert A. Heinlein and George Pal's "Destination Moon".
Intelligent SF can you name some?
ITIWBS Posted Feb 10, 2013
On the Harry Harrison death notes, very sad to see that.
I'd class his "East of Eden" series as the best alien viewpoint story I've read.
He did a magnificent job of working up an alien psychology from the biological imperatives of his (reptilian) aliens.
Intellegent SF can you name some?
Xanatic Posted Feb 10, 2013
I also can't see Gulliver's Travels as science fiction. It is one of many works about fictional travels from that era.
Intelligent SF can you name some?
KB Posted Feb 10, 2013
Good intelligent science fiction can "hold a mirror up to society" (lovely phrase by the way!) But it doesn't follow that if a mirror is being held up to society it is therefore science fiction.
Intelligent SF can you name some?
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Feb 10, 2013
When on holiday last week I read "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
Is very good. I highly re3commend.
FB
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Intelligent SF can you name some?
- 501: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Apr 19, 2007)
- 502: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Apr 19, 2007)
- 503: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Apr 19, 2007)
- 504: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Apr 19, 2007)
- 505: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Apr 19, 2007)
- 506: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Apr 19, 2007)
- 507: Crescent (Apr 19, 2007)
- 508: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Apr 19, 2007)
- 509: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Aug 16, 2012)
- 510: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Feb 9, 2013)
- 511: Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller (Feb 9, 2013)
- 512: tucuxii (Feb 9, 2013)
- 513: KB (Feb 10, 2013)
- 514: tucuxii (Feb 10, 2013)
- 515: tucuxii (Feb 10, 2013)
- 516: ITIWBS (Feb 10, 2013)
- 517: ITIWBS (Feb 10, 2013)
- 518: Xanatic (Feb 10, 2013)
- 519: KB (Feb 10, 2013)
- 520: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (Feb 10, 2013)
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