[marc costanzo]

Let us create a future of infinite possibilities devoid of the agenda of the social engineers who work their corruption on us thru the one way world of television . A world where anything is possible , but not everything is possible . Anything can happen , but not all things can happen at once . That is what 'Time' is for , to keep all things from happening at the same moment . That shall be the only rule of our new fantasy world . That an event happens only once . What has been done , cannot be undone . There is no turning back the sands of time . You can review the past but you cannot change the past . That a vision of a possible future - to the present , must be taken in the context of the present . A Cosmos not governed by compassion or tolerance or equality , but common sense and merit . A Universe of strange and totally new lifeforms and not distorted reflections of human characters , just to make some social allegory ---- THAT is the insipid barren road of Political Correctness that Sci-fi entertainment has been a slave to for so many years . The future is not the current events of our world thrown into Outer Space . The future is not with the Liberals , not with the Multiculturalists (both hate America) , and it is certainly not to be found in some cheapo TV production made in Canada ! The future is not written , the future is unformed . . .

[EveningStar]

ping

[cripplecreek]

I liked LEXX. That was one bizarre show. It's where I learned what a "fluffer" is.

[Phsstpok]

The recently departed Jim Baen will provide you a source for science fiction that you can identify with. And the first "fix" in the free library is, in fact, free.  Like all good capitalists they don't give it away out of the goodness of their heart.  They assume that you'll get hooked on their authors and series and buy more from them.  Clever them.  They've got me buying the books as "advanced reader copies" ebooks even before they've finished proof reading them.

http://www.baen.com/

I suggest all the stuff by Ringo, the Niven/Pournelle collaboration Angel's Down, the stuff by Rick Cook, Eric Flint's 1632 universe and the Honor Harrington books.  I think you'll be pleased.

[IronJack]

I think it's amusing that everything that passes for science fiction these days is dystopian. It's all this angst-ridden bleakness that belies man's innate stubborness, the parasitic persistence that causes him to defile one creation after another, only to create yet another. But in the PC future, there is no light, only tunnel.

[KevinDavis]

[LRS]

*Sigh!* In a better universe, there would have been an anthology series "Tales of Known Space", with installments of Gil 'The Arm' Hamilton, Beowulf Shaeffer, and Man/Kizn Wars...

[mark_interrupted]

Robert Heinlein

[DBrow]

I liked Firefly. Never saw it on TV but I have all the episodes on disc.

No "aliens" with latex glommed on their faces, no space monsters or exploding suns, but it was a western in the old tradition, people dealing with people problems, but in a ship named Serenity.

I never saw LEXX, though, is it worth the effort?

[BlazingArizona]

How about creating a new sci-fi anthology with none of the puerile baggage of Rod Serling, Rockne Obannon, Michael J. Stracinsky, etc .. It is time to end their reign of un-American cynicism and fatalism !

We can all dream about "The Jerry Pournelle Theater", but good luck trying to interest anyone in Hollywood in such a concept.

On the other hand, improving video technology is steadily reducing the cost of production, while the Internet is reducing the cost of marketing. Is there a TV Rutan in our future?

[sionnsar]

I have no idea what "LEXX" is, but my perception (and I admit to having moved to the periphery over the past few decades) is that Science Fiction in a written medium is alive and well.

Whether it lives on in the video world -- well, I can't say and I don't care, but I will say that well over 90% of I see in SF movies... leaves me cold. It's shallow, it plays to what the producers think is "today's market" (right or wrong, at best it soon becomes "yesterday's market") and most of it is best ignored.

I'd like to have a copy of the "original" "War of the Worlds" in my DVD collection. The last remake.. forget it.

"When Worlds Collide" is there, proudly. (Did they ever do "After Worlds Collide" by Wylie & Co?)

And the weeklies.. well. several years I got so bored by the Star Trek follow-ons I quit watching broadcast teeeeheeeeveeee entirely. I think I turned the tube on early this year to watch the Rose? Super? Cereal? Sugar? Finger? bowl -- but I'm not sure which nor when.

[zeugma]

As others have pointed out... There are no muslims in the future... 

[thescourged1]

Need a brutal and compassionless future in the scifi genre?
EVE

[GOPJ]

Liberal editors are gatekeepers and they've killed the science fiction. The Weapon Shops of Isher? never be published today...

[mrsmith]

We need Miss Braswell, Ambassador Pouncetrifle, Counsel Magnan and all the members of the Corps Diplomatique Terra and their sticky fingered Groaci villains...

starring, of course, Second Secretary Jaime Retief- Ambassador to the Stars!

"To place your grasping members above your cephalic nodules instanter!"

Sorry, Keith Laumer is dead. Watch PC puke.

[freedumb2003]

REAL science fiction affecionados NEVER use the term "sci fi."

[Fred Hayek]

The same stracinsky as Babylon 5?

[Brett66]

I was pretty fed up with the PC Trek and it's naive humanism. Then I had to go read the Horatio Hornblower novels and Richard Bolitho series by Alexander Kent. I have loathed Trek with a passion ever since.

[Spiff]

How about creating a new sci-fi anthology with none of the puerile baggage of Rod Serling, Rockne Obannon, Michael J. Stracinsky, etc .. It is time to end their reign of un-American cynicism and fatalism !

[mojo_the_migo]

Just an extra tidbit of info. LEXX is the name of a living ship that looks like a giant firefly and can shoot fireballs that blow up planets. It was an invention of an evil empire and the show revolves around several characters who stole it finding someplace decent to live. Captain is a middle aged loser/pervert, there is an exassasin who is dead and kept "alive" by some type of blood, a women with lizard/insect genses spliced into her, and a robot who was horny for the woman, but became horny for the dead assasin. OH and a man eating plant lady.

It was an ok show. I watched on and of, it kinda grossed me out a little but there was some good humor.

[DBrow]

Yano, it's an old story, but Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat would make a fine series!

Sort of like McGuyver meets Grand Theft Auto.

Wonder how much the story rights cost?