[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.

[JamesP81]

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.

This is also my perception and I think scifi lends itself better to print than film. I'm even trying to write my own scifi novel. This is not going as well as I'd like but is going.

[marc costanzo]

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

Sadly no, and they never will .
AFTER WROLD'S COLLIDE is to religous, to Biblical sounding,
In the novel, those who were selected to go aboard were chosen by Eugenics - - a definite no no in todays PC tight assed world !

[FierceDraka]

Did they ever do "After Worlds Collide" by Wylie & Co?

Wow. Talk about a blast from the past!

Those two books were, along with Heinlein and Asimov, among the first sci-fi I read when I was a kid that went beyond Star Trek tie-in novels.

The science in the "Collide" novels is a little hokey - the mechanics of Alpha smashing the Earth and heading out to deep space while leaving Beta in a somewhat stable orbit around Sol are nigh impossible.

But hey, they were written in the 1930's, so I cut them some slack.

[Tanniker Smith]

"When Worlds Collide" is there, proudly.

I finally read that a few years back. I thought it was a great book that could use a little updating. And I told my brother that he should suggest to a friend of his that has co-written and co-produced stuff in Hollywood that he should look into it.

Then, about a week later, I saw an ad for "Deep Impact". Ah, well. Looks like someone already had that idea a long time before me.