I imagine just about everybody who reads also enjoys other forms of media. If you have some interesting/good suggestions for TV Series or Movie Series or some other series, why not share em?n/m - didn't realize we were talking books. Interestingly I just can't get into Fantasy/Sci-Fi reading. I love it on the screen, but the books just bore me most of the time.
OMG I forgot about Elf Quest it was cool.
Now the one I can't remember.
A friend had comics of a super hero future but all of them were screwed up and greatly flawed. The "Hero" wore barbed wire around his arm. Everything was really dark. All their powers were from genetic engineering to make super soldiers to fight. I remember one comic about a Mr. Fantastic guy and his henchmen who were of course all completely insane sex feinds. Johnny flame was in it but instead he was locked up in a fireproof case because he could never turn his fire off and he was tormented by the pain of constantly being on fire because the scientists that made his powers forgot to turn the nerves off.
Somebody help me on the title please.
Its not the watchman
Loved that as a kid. Still watch it every few years.Hey, why not continue the bump.
I'll go with Screamers.
As a youth, it was my first foray into the concept of a truly capable AI, as well as the neverending stupidity of war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld
My dad had boxes of this old scifi stuff. I would read through it when I was a kid and these trilogy stuck out to my 12 year old brain.
The "Cities In Flight" books by James Blish. Much as with Asimov's Foundation books, I remember I liked how the characters in the earlier books became long-dead historical background figures in the later ones. For some reason that that aspect of the series appealed to me.
Also it was a nice conceit - entire cities leave earth to wander through space (with the aid of some unobtanium-driven anti-gravity device and a giant dome) looking for work.
Harry Harrison also did The Stainless Steel Rat books. I feel like they got weaker the longer he carried on churning them out. I had the impression, just from reading them, that at some point he got concerned about 'violence in media', and suddenly he started finding more-and-more unlikely pretexts to resolve stories without anything violent happening, which got a bit silly after a while. The stories became 'bloodless', in more than once sense of the word. They had some interesting ideas, though, I vaguely remember one of them included a kind of parody of the whole "Iron John" "Men's Movement" thing.
Also Bill the Galactic Hero, which I think was a micky-take of Starship Troopers. Harrison (former machine gun instructor in the Marines, I think) had an infinitely more jaded view of the military than did Heinlein.
I enjoyed the Stainless Steel Rat books.
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