Quote: Timbo @ January 14 2009, 2:14 PM GMTI like westerns and I like science fiction, but westerns in space I struggle with.
Well, I suppose it's supposed to be, like Star Trek, the final frontier. So they're frontiersmen. Or whatever the actual word is.
All art is stuff being about something else. Analogous. 
Just wanted to see it again.
That's the difference between a Manet bridge and a photo postcard.
I'm talking out me arse.
Quote: Griff @ January 14 2009, 2:08 PM GMTI liked Firefly. It wasn't really "about" anything in the way that Whedon's Buffy/Angel stuff clearly was, but he knows how to tell a rattling good yarn and I liked the characters.
I can't wait for his new show, Dollhouse. Hopefully it'll find an audience and won't get cancelled in the way Firefly was.
Quote: chipolata @ January 14 2009, 2:18 PM GMTI can't wait for his new show, Dollhouse. Hopefully it'll find an audience and won't get cancelled in the way Firefly was.
Isn't that having a difficult start? Stopping and starting or something?
Quote: Matthew Stott @ January 14 2009, 2:19 PM GMTIsn't that having a difficult start? Stopping and starting or something?
Oh dear. 
Quote: Matthew Stott @ January 14 2009, 2:15 PM GMTWell, I suppose it's supposed to be, like Star Trek, the final frontier. So they're frontiersmen. Or whatever the actual word is.
Yes, and there is fine tradition of SF robbing other genres; it was the subtle as a housebrick thing I struggled with. In one episode they robbed a train!
I might have known that we'd all be tedious sci-fi knobs. We have a new God though.
Quote: billwill @ January 14 2009, 11:31 AM GMTThose are all VERY OLD books are they not; though I'm not sure about Ubik.
I remember avidly waiting for each episode of "Tiger Tiger" when it was first published in Analogue SF magazine (Though I think it was called "The Stars My Destination" then). The plot, of course, is a straight lift from "The Count of Monte Christo".
(I have around 3000 SF paperbacks in my library here)
*Kneels in front of BillWill*
Quote: David Bussell @ January 14 2009, 10:31 AM GMTGood choices, sir. And dear God, how good is Fallout 3? I'm going through a second run, this time playing a bad gal. I just nuked a small town on the behalf of some seedy guy I met in a bar then went wandering into the desert where I found a crashed flying saucer with a crazy alien space gun. Also, I aggregated some industrial action ballot figures and contacted the regional college principals with the results. See if you can guess which of these exciting adventures took place in my real life.
I'm getting really sick of megaton. Unfortunately I grassed up the guy who pays you to blow it up and he shot the sherif and put a contract on me. I suppose there's still some way to detonate the bomb. What happens if you shoot Doctor Li? She's been burning my arse for ages. And where can I find a nuke for the mini fatman? I've been carrying the f**king catapult around for ages.
Quote: Marc P @ January 14 2009, 9:29 AM GMTThe demolished man is of course brilliant sci-fi but also a great 'Noir' detective story. And you don't get a lot more Noir than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Blade Runner.
The best Phil Dick film is one he had nothing to do with - 'Being john malkovich' is Dickian to it's core and proof that Charlie Kauffman is obsessed with Dick.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ January 16 2009, 12:35 PM GMTI'm getting really sick of megaton. Unfortunately I grassed up the guy who pays you to blow it up and he shot the sherif and put a contract on me. I suppose there's still some way to detonate the bomb. What happens if you shoot Doctor Li? She's been burning my arse for ages. And where can I find a nuke for the mini fatman? I've been carrying the f**king catapult around for ages.
Megaton sucks noodles. I've got a penthouse suite in Tenpenny Towers done up like a love lair. The mini nukes are scattered all over. They usually crop up in little raider camps. They're a bunch of fun, but not as much as the nuka-grenade. I heard a rumour there's a fat man that fires 8 rockets at once though, so that's got to be found. I didn't even know there was a catapult. I'm a gattling laser man myself. You might be able to off Li but I think it will end the game if you do. There are plenty of characters out there who deserve a smack that can be killed anyway. Those smart mouth kids in Little Lamplight for instance.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ January 16 2009, 12:35 PM GMTCharlie Kauffman is obsessed with Dick.
You might say he's Dick hungry.
I love K Dick books; even those late on ones, like Vallis, that are completely mental.
Is Fallout 3 any good then? I don't really know anything about it. I did pick up a bunch of games at less than half price just before Christmas because we found a woolworths in a little village in the middle of nowhere and they still had PS3 games left. So I got Mirror's Edge, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, Little Big Planet and Metal Gear Solid 4, £57.67 the lot.
Quote: Afinkawan @ January 16 2009, 4:42 PM GMTIs Fallout 3 any good then? I don't really know anything about it. I did pick up a bunch of games at less than half price just before Christmas because we found a woolworths in a little village in the middle of nowhere and they still had PS3 games left. So I got Mirror's Edge, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, Little Big Planet and Metal Gear Solid 4, £57.67 the lot.
That's quite the bargain!
Fallout 3 was my favourite game of 2008 and I ended up spending a chunk of change on games that year. That said, if you don't like gigantic games that that refuse to hold your hand through the story you'll not get on with Fallout 3. You can end up spending hours just walking around the wilderness looking for ammo.