At a point (perhaps even now) I had an idea to do something like this for myself. Recently after years of work a new web/Wiki site went online that is a good reference to all things sci-fi.
Although probably not fully complete and possibly not 100% accurate the site at least gives us sci-fi lovers a place to look up and read about the genre that seems to be shrinking lately.
For the first time in many years I started reading a real book – well actually a paperback, and I really can’t remember why I stopped doing it. There is just something different about holding a real physical book in your hands – with paper, ink, paper bookmarks etc. Oh the nostalgia…
The book I’m reading now is a real sci-fi classic – ‘Ringworld’ by Larry Niven
Back then (1970) some of the concepts in this book must have been really weird. Instant teleportation, no ‘borders’ between countries, people not aging anymore, extremely strict birth controls, aliens living among humans, personal spacecraft, Hyper-drives etc. Some of these may/are almost becoming real soon. The ideas behind birth controls is something that ‘we’ at this point of time must be starting to look at. Personal spacecraft is something I for one, would really like. But I guess it will still take a few decades/centuries before that could happen. In the mean while they must fix the ‘aging problem’. hehe
Wow!
This morning I was just trying to think about how many Space sci-fi (Sci-fi in space with space ships and aliens) series I can think of. Turns out there are quite a few and there seems to be a pattern… Here is a list (in no particular order of preference so not to upset some fanatic fans)
Some related series that are (honorary mentions) more general sci-fi are:
These are the ones I can think of now. I might have missed some but these are the most common ones I can think off. If you can think of more please comment.