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I read it for the economics and the unicorns

What are some good scifi / fantasy / horror novels about economics? [more inside]
posted by nicebookrack on May 16, 2013 - 22 answers

 

Help me find a half-remembered Asimov quote!

I can faintly remember once reading something by Isaac Asimov about the moon landing. He was making a point about the predictive power or lack thereof of science fiction. He wrote that of the dozens of hundreds of stories written pre-1969 about the first moon landing, not a single one featured the event being televised live back to earth. So where did he write this? Or was it someone else who made the point?
posted by LarryC on May 11, 2013 - 8 answers

French SF/Fantasy Novels (in the original)

I recently discovered an awesome local bookstore in France, hence I'd like to pick up a French-language SF/F novel that isn't a translation and would be difficult to find in the US. Suggestions? (Subgenre preferences below the jump) [more inside]
posted by serelliya on May 7, 2013 - 8 answers

Help find a S.F. Book Cover

I'm looking for a science fiction book cover illustration from a 1970's anthology of erotic short stories. It was a painting by Michael Gross (of National Lampoon fame) that showed a production line of robot Marilyn Monroes coursing down a a conveyor belt, factory style. [more inside]
posted by biddeford on Apr 20, 2013 - 2 answers

Fiction: Very short stories with an unreliable narrator?

Does anyone know of any very short stories (1,500 words or fewer), preferably in the science fiction or fantasy genre, that are told through the eyes of an unreliable narrator? [more inside]
posted by DeusExMegana on Apr 2, 2013 - 21 answers

Zeroth Contact

Where can I get some absentee alien stories? [more inside]
posted by ddbeck on Apr 1, 2013 - 20 answers

Is there a movie that takes place in a completely different sound world?

I'm looking for movies with a sound design that changes all of the typical sounds of the world. Something like replacing all of the "normal" sounds with something strange, like doors closing would all sound like "pew!" or footsteps would all be "bloop" or something. Does this exist? [more inside]
posted by Lutoslawski on Mar 25, 2013 - 15 answers

Can you find this sci-fi short story?

I've been looking for this particular short sci-fi story for several years and I am finally giving up on going solo. Help me find it, hive mind. [more inside]
posted by mr_crash_davis on Mar 20, 2013 - 5 answers

Sci-Fi Noir?

I recently read Berlin Noir, The City and The City and Chasm City, and was looking for recommendations for sci-fi detective fiction, or detective fiction that reads like sci-fi. [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight on Mar 18, 2013 - 37 answers

Science Fiction without the characters

[SciFi Book Filter] I'm basically looking for good science fiction books that have very minimal (or no) character development. [more inside]
posted by Busmick on Mar 6, 2013 - 39 answers

Looking for Books of the Ancients

So I'm jonesing for some science fiction of a particular nature. Specifically stories that deal in the Precursors trope. [more inside]
posted by SilverTail on Mar 3, 2013 - 16 answers

Science Fiction Short Stories About Personal Identity

I'm a graduate student about to propose a college writing class on science fiction and personal identity. The stories need to be short and brand name authors are preferred. I've got a prospective syllabus (see inside), but I bet there's a lot of good stuff that I'm missing that you know about. [more inside]
posted by vathek on Feb 12, 2013 - 50 answers

What kinds of experts might be on a team sent to explore a new planet?

Assuming one already knew the planet had a safe, breathable atmosphere and a similar terrain to earth's. Also assuming the group already had team leaders, security guys, pilots, and engineers for ship/equipment operation and maintenance. Just trying to discern what KINDS of scientists (or even cultural anthropologists, etc) might prove useful to an information-gathering mission-- one in which encountering intelligent life is highly likely. [more inside]
posted by np312 on Jan 30, 2013 - 23 answers

science fiction about viruses being alive or not

Examples of fiction books or stories touching on the debate about whether viruses are living things or not?
posted by ac on Jan 28, 2013 - 8 answers

Recommend me some teen sci-fi TV series!

I love serious, obscure TV sci-fi aimed at twelve year olds. Please help me find more of it! [more inside]
posted by PhoBWanKenobi on Jan 19, 2013 - 44 answers

Spooky images glimpsed through open doors

What was this genre novel about a maze full of gruesome tableaux vivants? [more inside]
posted by PhoBWanKenobi on Jan 3, 2013 - 14 answers

Does EMBASSYTOWN have a happy ending? (Spoilers!)

China MiƩville's EMBASSYTOWN: does it have a 'happy' ending? [Spoilers inside!] [more inside]
posted by alasdair on Jan 3, 2013 - 11 answers

Interesting scifi / glam rock makeup looks?

Can you point me to some (non-prosthetic) scifi/fantasy makeup looks? [more inside]
posted by lemoncakeisalie on Jan 1, 2013 - 10 answers

Name that Sci Fi Story

Name that science fiction story / movie: Two people in love with each other are trapped in a box. The box is possibly in some alternative dimension with a Panopticon-type God person. I think the story was written by a famous sci fi author. [more inside]
posted by Apropos of Something on Dec 30, 2012 - 3 answers

Details, details, details...and then BAM!

As a reader of fiction (especially if you're a devotee of speculative fiction), how much do you like detailed descriptions and/or lists as part of the story? What if the story switches between detail and expediency? [more inside]
posted by batmonkey on Dec 28, 2012 - 12 answers

When you say "you and the guys", you mean the internet, don't you?

Please help me create an "Essentials of Doctor Who" playlist, to catch someone up on the show since the reboot. [more inside]
posted by zarq on Dec 26, 2012 - 20 answers

Sci-Fi graphic novel suggestions?

Thoughtful science-fiction graphic novel suggestions needed! (non-horror, limited violence) [more inside]
posted by Auden on Dec 18, 2012 - 10 answers

All in the desert fighting a war against mutants with bicycles.

There is some insane YA trilogy that no one can seem to track down. Anyone here have a clue? [more inside]
posted by cereselle on Dec 17, 2012 - 8 answers

How much fantasy speculative fiction is there out there?

How much fantasy speculative fiction is there out there? [more inside]
posted by Evilspork on Dec 10, 2012 - 13 answers

What's this humorous SF mystery?

What's this humorous SF mystery? [more inside]
posted by exceptinsects on Dec 2, 2012 - 3 answers

In search of a science fiction book I read as a teen...

In search of a science fiction book I read as a teen... [more inside]
posted by rainbowbrite on Dec 2, 2012 - 7 answers

I'm looking for help finding a science-fiction novel about unemployed people who adopt insects.

Help me find this dimly-remembered SF novel, if you please. Near-future dystopia, high unemployment, unemployed people are treated in humiliating ways, they adopt mysterious insects as pets, the insects give off calming pheromones. More poorly-remembered details inside, one of them NSFW. [more inside]
posted by thehmsbeagle on Dec 1, 2012 - 3 answers

Trying to find short Japanese animation

I'm trying to find a short Japanese animation that I saw on youtube several years ago. It was definitely in a science fiction setting. The most memorable aspect was the shifting POV, moving between characters as they fight in a war, with a character becoming the hero or villain immediately after we start to follow someone else. [more inside]
posted by GDWJRG on Nov 27, 2012 - 3 answers

It's on the tip of my tongue!

What (probably 70s or 80s-era) science fiction novel involved colonizing an alien world which was inherently hostile to the human protagonists but which had a native population of vampire-like creatures who were similar enough to humans to "pass?" (Possibly shapeshifters.) I thought it was C.J. Cherryh's Faded Sun books, but it isn't – although I think I read it around the same time that I read those books in omnibus.
posted by sonic meat machine on Nov 22, 2012 - 6 answers

What casual, pretty strategy game is a good gift for my brother?

I'm looking for a visually appealing strategy computer game as a gift for my mid-twenties brother, preferably casual, hard sci fi and without DRM. [more inside]
posted by Triton on Nov 15, 2012 - 12 answers

Jake and the Fat Man-eating Plants!

Looking for examples of television shows that develop into sci fi. [more inside]
posted by klausman on Nov 13, 2012 - 40 answers

Tell me of the tales of kicking ass from your homeworld, Usul.

I just reread Dune, and the parts I liked were as good as always. I don't have much patience for the parts other than that. Help me find more books that feature the "navigating a new culture but doing it really well and then kicking ass in some sort of fight" narrative. I like it when the new culture is special/insular/devalued but is really the bestest all along. (Special sandgrains inside.) [more inside]
posted by OmieWise on Nov 8, 2012 - 38 answers

Sci-fi books with nanochips from the 80s/90s

[book-filter] Need help tracking down a sci-fi novel(s) read in the late 80's or 90's containing special abilities provided by nanochips. [more inside]
posted by eloeth-starr on Oct 7, 2012 - 1 answer

Looking for short film featuring mysterious black cube

I'm looking for an online video from a couple years back. It is a short scifi movie shot in the first person, which features a scientist waking up in a lab, looking out the window to see a giant tower shooting a beam into the sky, and then grabbing a black cube with lights on it, which appears to have some sort of strange powers. It was hosted on a website which had some other seemingly related material. I don't know if it was from an ARG, or a standalone video, or what, but I'd really like to watch it again.
posted by cthuljew on Oct 4, 2012 - 4 answers

Like something from Yoda, but not...

Quote suggestions from science fiction/fantasy books or stories related to teaching? [more inside]
posted by xenization on Oct 2, 2012 - 8 answers

Looking to explore time and space in my downtime.

Looking for recommendations of a particular kind of "exploring the unknown" SciFi book. [more inside]
posted by justkevin on Oct 1, 2012 - 18 answers

Metaphysical, medical and media representations of the Double?

Looking for instances, whether fictional, religious or otherwise, of the idea of the "double". [more inside]
posted by Lorin on Sep 30, 2012 - 33 answers

Mammary cannons optional

Science fiction that deals with people having the ability to download information directly to their brains? [more inside]
posted by Lobster Garden on Sep 27, 2012 - 29 answers

SF that starts out as realism/historical fiction and ends up somewhere else?

Speculative fiction about historical gradualism: I'm looking for SF stories which begin in the real historical world (past or present) and then gradually diverge from it, without any single decisive turning point. [more inside]
posted by RogerB on Sep 19, 2012 - 11 answers

One hunts a squamp with bait.

BookFilter: sci-fi novels with "menagerie worlds." [more inside]
posted by Nomyte on Sep 15, 2012 - 27 answers

give me your tired, your poor, your huddled Swamp Things yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore

Looking for your favorite works of environmentally conscious and ecologically focused science fiction and fantasy. Obscurities preferred! [more inside]
posted by gerryblog on Sep 15, 2012 - 29 answers

to join or not to join?

Should I join SFWA? [more inside]
posted by nonasuch on Sep 13, 2012 - 11 answers

Quick, get the giant space mirror!

Let's say a catastrophic cosmic event caused a ripple effect in the fabric of space-time, the first wave of which could potentially destroy the Earth. I realize that we have nothing in our current technology that could do anything to stop it, but what about future technology? (For fictional purposes.) [more inside]
posted by MrHalfwit on Sep 7, 2012 - 19 answers

Fantastic art of the fantastic

Looking for examples of great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrators and concept artists. [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Sep 3, 2012 - 28 answers

Oh internet oracle, in your dusty archives

Tracking down an old story about a person who was using some sort of method to detect the impressions of sound waves in objects in order to replay old conversations. Anybody got an inkling what it might be? [more inside]
posted by solarion on Sep 1, 2012 - 12 answers

How would someone in today's age of documentation handle the practical aspects of immortality?

(sci-fi filter) How would someone in today's age of documentation handle the practical aspects of immortality? [more inside]
posted by JoannaC on Aug 7, 2012 - 39 answers

Oh no, it's a Cosmic Tsunami!

For a story's sake, let's say a series of enormous gravitational waves caused the fabric of space time to fluctuate. What would that be like for us here on Earth, experiencing the fallout? [more inside]
posted by MrHalfwit on Jul 29, 2012 - 15 answers

Better living through alchemy.

Looking for alternate science and/or space fiction. [more inside]
posted by curious nu on Jul 22, 2012 - 12 answers

The Real World: Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape

Help me track down this Cube-esque, straight-to-video nuclear bomb shelter paranoia film (with a shocking twist!). [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Jul 19, 2012 - 8 answers

Looking for new novels - flavour: slightly epic fantasy, SF or historical, with good female characters

I'm looking for some new books and/or authors to read, probably fantasy/SF or historical, dramatic but not dark and preferably with female characters. [more inside]
posted by jb on Jul 16, 2012 - 47 answers

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