I'm looking for some science fiction publishers who publish in the New Weird and/or Slipstream styles. I know about Tachyon Publications... can you please point me toward others?
posted on Jul 7, 2008 - 6 answers

Recommend me some SF/Fantasy books that deal with "lost civilizations" [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - 33 answers

Recommendations for Sci-Fi while on the Treadmill? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 25 answers

Is there a best order to read the Culture novels by Iain M Banks? [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2008 - 21 answers

Help identify a (most likely European) comic with Von Daniken style ancient astronauts that I vaguely remember from childhood. [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2008 - 8 answers

Who first came up with the concept of lots of small (though not necessarily nanoscale) robots performing useful tasks collectively? [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2008 - 10 answers

Where did the idea of faster than light (or near light speed) travel come from, and how is it described in different science fiction/fact works? [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - 25 answers

A childhood memory of two science fiction films has been nagging me lately. I have just a little to go on... [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 11 answers

What's some speculative fiction that uses magic or fictional technology to explore psychology, sociology, or political science in a deep way? I'm not as much interested here in fabulous monsters or space operas or even deep thinking about physics -- I'm interested in books that explore the nature of the mind and/or human society by imagining a world that worked differently.
posted on Apr 13, 2008 - 45 answers

What is the best website to sell science fiction DVD's and get a good price. I've looked at Amazon, and they take a percentage plus 2 separate fees!! And on ebay, the DVD's are selling for very low prices. I was given 3 classic science fiction movies on DVD that I don't want, I'm short on money, and I'd like to sell them for as much as I can.
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - 4 answers

Paul Lehr is my favorite SF cover artist. I found some files to use as wallpaper ( I think this is fair use...) but have had little luck. Are there any good (online) sources for his work?
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - 3 answers

Book-rec-filter time! Looking for sci-fi themed books for a young child. Can you suggest any? [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm trying to make an expansive and widely-varied reading list of time-travel books and stories. Suggestions? [more inside]
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - 43 answers

Looking for a science fiction short story I read years ago. [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2008 - 11 answers

I am trying to find a SciFi book that I read the first couple of chapters of. It involved two companies racing to come up with some kind of genetic cure and in the process creating a monster or something. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm looking for the title of a science fiction B movie which I saw very long ago for which I have only a fragmentary memory: a lab worker is covering a bell-jar like contrivance which is encaging two small, glowing and bobbing spheres of some un-nameable plasma (creatures...?!). She leaves the darkened room, and the guys working the baby spot - I mean, they escape, wending their eerie way around the eerily lit lab....and the memory ends. What film is it?
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - 4 answers

In your opinion, who are the best female science fiction authors? What are the best scifi books written by women? [more inside]
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - 105 answers

Looking for the name of a sci-fi book. Man is injected with a serum that causes him to shrink forever, eventually discovering there are universes smaller than atoms. [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - 9 answers

Looking for good "Sci-fi" stories, novels, TV shows or movies (primarily the first 2, though) that deal with issues of identity & difference. [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 41 answers

Help me identify these four short horror stories, based on descriptions of their plots and endings. SPOILERS AHEAD! [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 3 answers

Help me find some great or good scifi watchables. [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 60 answers

How can I get wordpress to show a post as though it had been published in the future? [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

I'm trying to remember a quote from a science-fiction writer (I think Ray Bradbury), about how computers are tools for humanity to express their imagination, or something very much like that. I googled with no luck, but I swear I read (and used) this quote previously, I just can't find it. [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2008 - 12 answers

Help me figure out the title/author of this short science fiction story. It was about a world where everyone stopped growing. [more inside]
posted on Jan 10, 2008 - 6 answers

Name my obscure movie from probably thirty-forty years ago based on nothing but a vague description! (...?) [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2008 - 29 answers

Are there any good (or at least decent) animated features that have that Star Wars-esque space opera adventure feel to it? [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2007 - 23 answers

I'm looking for novels that are pageturners (genres preferred: science fiction/fantasy, magic realism, mystery/suspense/thriller) but also have psychologically acute character development. Any recs?
posted on Dec 20, 2007 - 33 answers

Looking for science-fiction that attempts to accurately depict the process of science. [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 36 answers

Where can I find the Caedmon audio recording of Clifford Simak reading City? [more inside]
posted on Oct 13, 2007 - 2 answers

I have a couple plot/setting-related questions about part of Battlestar Galactica's first season, and was hoping to get non-spoilery answers if possible. [more inside]
posted on Oct 12, 2007 - 21 answers

Why don't sci-fi and fantasy novels indicate they're sequels or parts of series? [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2007 - 12 answers

What are the all-time best science fiction novels which depict Artificial Intelligence? [more inside]
posted on Aug 1, 2007 - 37 answers

I'm trying to recall a science fiction time travel short story set in a Paris cafe. The story begins when one man overhears another speaking in "antique Latin." I know that's not much to go on, but I'm hoping those few facts might ring a bell for some sci-fi loving askmetafilter genius!
posted on Jul 24, 2007 - 3 answers

I am trying to find the title and author of a short science fiction story. The story centered around Moses returning from Mt. Sinai and finding the Israelites worshiping the golden calf. In the biblical version he breaks the tablets and later goes back to get another set. In this story, the Israelites realize the error of their ways and gather all the pieces. [more below] [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2007 - 7 answers

ScienceFictionfilter: Suggestions for gift subscriptions of science fiction magazines, journals printed in English and dead tree format [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2007 - 10 answers

Looking for quote about "the few who think well and often". Possibly from science fiction? [more inside]
posted on Jun 14, 2007 - 7 answers

I just found out that the dystopian/futuristic movie Children of Men is based on a novel by P.D. James. It made me think of the excellent short story The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. It made me wonder: are other examples of mainstream authors experimenting with speculative fiction? [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2007 - 36 answers

Late 1980s or very early 1990s made for television science fiction mini-series. All I remember is that it involved some space ships that joined together to form something else, at least a couple of kids, possibly an abandoned/run-down space station or colony, and a mystery to be solved by flying all over the place. Like all such things I probably wouldn't enjoy it now, but would like to watch it again if possible.
posted on Apr 8, 2007 - 10 answers

Looking for recommendations of Science Fiction book/series involving well-constructed, involving, and believable universes. [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2007 - 62 answers

Help me remember the name of a series of political/scifi novels. The novels centers on the life of a character referred to as "The Tyrant". [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2007 - 18 answers

SciFi BookTitleFilter: I am preparing a segment on religious-themed or religion-oriented science fiction and trying to remember the name of a book I read in college...of course there's more! [more inside]
posted on Feb 26, 2007 - 26 answers

Help me find a Sci-Fi / Fantasy book whose title I've forgotten! [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2007 - 3 answers

Please help me remember a science fiction short story ending with "...waiting for the light that had always come back" [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2007 - 5 answers

Give me some recommendations for French-language science-fiction or fantasy books. [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2007 - 8 answers

Looking for a (maybe) 1970s Science Fiction movie or television series episode that has male infertility as a theme. [more inside]
posted on Jan 8, 2007 - 18 answers

[Iain M Banks Filter] In The Algebraist, much is made of the lack of supralight communication with the rest of the galaxy thanks to the collapsed wormhole portal. (And now we get spoilerish.) [more inside]
posted on Dec 26, 2006 - 4 answers

Legal thought and science fiction? [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2006 - 9 answers

Where can I learn about the possible consequences of future global warming, sea-level-rise, etc on the climate of the continental US? [more inside]
posted on Nov 19, 2006 - 5 answers

In search of an episode of what I thought was The Outer Limits, but it's not listed in the episode guide, [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2006 - 9 answers

Lost in space... forever? What happens after you're tossed out of the airlock? [more inside]
posted on Oct 27, 2006 - 24 answers