SciFiDig 62 pt1 DiggerCast
June 13th, 2006We did a rather loose round robin discussion based on the premise of what items, in each venue, would you use to introduce a person to science fiction. We rambled and digressed from time to time but we came up with a pretty good list of things for people to consider.
Time 1:00:29
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TV shows
- BSG
- Babylon 5
- DS9
- Dr Who: The Five Doctors
- Dresden Files (to come in Jan ’07)
- More info on The Dresden Files
Movies
- Aliens
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (You canât get much more classic than this)
- 11:14 â (Black, black comedy!!)
- Back to the Future â (The whole trilogy) /
Part 2 / Part 3 - Dune – Theater release
- Dune – SciFi Channel mini-series
- The original Star Wars Trilogy (and in Aaron’s opinion the only one)
- –Star Wars
- –The Empire Strikes Back
- –The Return of the Jedi
Podcasts This became more of an âIntroduction to Podcasts in general rather than science fiction specifically.
- Podcast 411
- Find a genre you’re interested in and check out the books.
- Brave Men Run
- Scott Siglers podiobooks
- Mur Lafferty’s Geek-Fu action grip
- Me and the Bean
- Slice of SciFi
- Dragon Page
- Wingin’ It
- Week in Whedon
- Accident Hash
- The Jersey Todd Show
Books
Fantasy
- Dragon Lance books, any and all
- Song of Ice and Fire series
- Moonheart
- Hawk and Fisher
- The Dreseden Files
- Anne McCaffery – Dragonriders of Pern
- Marion Zimmer Bradley – Darkover series Darkover and Dragon Riders are often put in the Science Fiction section in some stores and libraries because they are based around human colonists on other worlds. At a later point the Darkover books even add in the rediscovery of the colony by human space explorers.
- The Dragon and the George
This is the Wiki - Gordon_Dickson
The Redwall Series
Science Fiction
- Ringworld
- Dune
- Enders Game
- Hellburner & Heavy Time
- Downbelow Station
- Rimrunners
- Star Wars – X-Wing series & Rogue SquadronStar Trek is such a large genre we gave it a section all to itself.
- Star Trek The Next Generation: The Forgotten War by William R. Forstchen
- Price of the Phoenix and Fate of the Phoenix
Websites
- Memepunks Not science fiction but worth checking out.
Miscellaneous category
- Bison meat
Somehow we started talking about buffalo meat, buffalo burgers and how good it tastes. If cooked properly it makes a great burger and it’s really good in an omelet.
