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Simple sci-fi question.
posted 1 year ago by Smith1980 1 year ago by Smith1980 +24 / -0

What is your favorite type of sci-fi? For me since Ive always been interested in life in the universe/space exploration, anything regarding that. I love golden age sci-fi and reading what they thought we would do in space back in the 40s and 50s

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– Smith1980 [S] 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

I’ve read Piers Anthony books where he combines the two. What’s a good mixture you’ve read?

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– Norenia 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Star Wars (EU).

But I'm also mostly coming off of video game settings too. Final Fantasy has gone that route often, and there's the Phantasy Star franchise.

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– Smith1980 [S] 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Cool! I love the Star Wars EU. I can’t remember if you are the one that liked it up until NJO?

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– Norenia 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Sounds about right. I never read NJO, and some of the plot synopses I'd read of it and later stuff started to turn me off.

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– Smith1980 [S] 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Gotcha. I enjoyed it but I read it after the Disney purchase. I despise Disney Star Wars so all the EU I’ve read since then is much better by comparison. I will never understand why they didn’t continue it as a separate continuity along with their canon. If you haven’t already check out Darth Angelus on YouTube who is doing an animated Heir to the Empire

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– DemolitionsPanda 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Was that written before or after Piers Anthony wrote a lot of books prominently featuring precocious, nubile tweens?

I think you are talking about the Incantations of Immortality, which I have read, or Blue Adept, which I have not read.

Incarnations of Immortality starts well, but every book is worse than the last.

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– Smith1980 [S] 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

These were in the 90s. One book was about a guy in a futuristic world finding a portal into a fantasy world and going back and forth. Cant remember the name. Another one was about a person playing a VR game and it had some levels that were fantasy

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– DemolitionsPanda 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

The first one is the Blue Adept series. I don't know about the second one.

Piers Anthony was not a great author. Eventually he discovered that he got paid by the word and churned out huge tomes of low-effort crap.

His most successful series is a fantasy setting called Xanith or something close. It is about adventures in a magical kingdom where most of the magic is based on puns. Piers writes long, 'educational forwards' that don't age well.

I can recommend other, better series. Try out Dungeon Crawler Carl.

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– Smith1980 [S] 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Thanks! I have a few Xanth books but haven’t read them

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