Which science fiction world would you like to live in?

[banquo's_bumble_puppy]

Which science fiction world would you like to live in? :o

[Ripper 2.0]

You need to add a "none of the above".

[captain swoop]

Red Dwarf

[Tensor]

You need to add a "none of the above".

Yeah, my choice isn't one here either.

[Reacher]

Hay, budday, what's all this aboot!? [/Canadian]

Halo for sure.
But since there isn't a Halo option, and since the Star Wars galaxy r0xx0rz my j0xx0rz so much, I pick that.
Although, the humans in Halo get a pretty hard time. Maybe a human who travels with the Protoss in Starcraft?
But then again, those humans are pretty screwed as well.
The Star Trek ships are mediocre, I'm keeping away from them.

[Swift]

I wasn't big on any of the choices.
I always liked Larry Niven's Known Universe series.

[Ripper 2.0]

I like firefly, I would rather live in that one than Star Trek though. Rough life though. I like the idea of freedom.

[informant]

C'mon, guys, you're over-rationalising. This is a gut vote! :D

[SciFi Chick]

Pern. Definitely Pern. I would both ride a dragon and be a harper. :D =D> \:D/

[xbck1]

Thanks, but life is sufficiently weird and annoying without having to to muck about with aliens and stupid treaties and whatnot. Therefore, I choose the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "sci-fi universe".

[AstroSmurf]

Me, I'd go with Lois McMaster Bujold's universe. Which isn't in the poll either. I'd choose Star Trek, but I couldn't possibly put up with all the bad physics, plus, it's boring.

[constible]

How about a world where people believe humans didn't land on the moon, a giant planet will destroy earth, no robots landed on Mars, crop circles are for ETs, pyramids built by ETs, heck, everything is built by ETs, conspiracy theorists around every corner, where science is trying to become the rationale for explaining the universe instead of creationists, where key scientific ideas are not taught in certain areas, and where forum members write horribly long run-on grammatically incorrect sentences that leave you puzzling your head as to what you just read.

In short, I prefer our world.

[beck0311]

Thanks, but life is sufficiently weird and annoying without having to to muck about with aliens and stupid treaties and whatnot. Therefore, I choose the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "sci-fi universe".

But, we do live in that universe. We are just in the backwoods. If you need proof look no farther than your nearest bar, you can get a Gin and Tonic there can't you?

[xbck1]

So, you're telling me that some time a while ago the Grebulons who are living out on Rupert did some weird thing (who knows what) and now Earth is no longer here?

Does this mean that we're all just wondering around like Gordon Way in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detacive Agency, or that Earth was reconstituted because it's in one of the plural zones?

Are you telling me that Arthur Dent currently resides in Islington and that Random is still whining about the moon chasing her and screaming that she needs somebody to fix the watch, or remains thereof that she's holding in her grubby little mitt?

Are you telling me that Bistromathematics is real and there are currently small restaurants protected by Somebody Else's Problem Fields zipping about the planet?

And finally, are you telling me that if I jmped off a cliff and noticed that a giant jar of pickled pig's feet had just materialized right beside me, I might miss the ground?

Where's my cliff?!?!?!

[Betenoire]

Thanks, but life is sufficiently weird and annoying without having to to muck about with aliens and stupid treaties and whatnot. Therefore, I choose the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "sci-fi universe".

Agreed.
'sides, the Star Wars universe is sorta... ghetto. Everybody lives in privation and strife.
Star Trek is too utopic (I'd be constantly itching to smack people before they went all like the people in Demolition Man).
Bladerunner is cool, but also too dystopic for my tastes.
HHGTTG, though, really appeals to me.

[milli360]

C'mon, guys, you're over-rationalising.
All literary quibbles aside, Heinlein's Number of the Beast seems to afford the most possibilities.

[Mr. X]

STAR WARS! Without a doubt.

Being a dark jedi is way too cool to pass up.

On the other hand being a stormtrooper sorta sucks. So does being the guy serving in the cantina.

But being Vader even if you are mutilated undecrneath the armor would be very cool.

And being a high ranking Imperial official like Vader or the Emperor you could dispatch or choke to death anyone, and I mean anyone you want! How cool is that!

[Avatar28]

C'mon, guys, you're over-rationalising.
All literary quibbles aside, Heinlein's Number of the Beast seems to afford the most possibilities.

Definitely. I'd go for that one. Then you can have them all. :-)

[The Supreme Canuck]

I'd have to say the Revelation Space universe. Incredible. It actually seems to obey the laws of physics...

[HoffaXVIII]

Out of the poll choices, "Blade Runner". If I had my druthers I would choose "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Who wouldn't want to live in a world where flying saucers are hanging in the air by wire and aliens are made of cheap plastic and makeup? Whoops... that's already a reality :oops:

[Chuck]

Fictional universes are way too dangerous. In nearly every TV series, movie, and novel there's a lot of fighting and killing.

[Lycus]

Am I the only one who wants to live in Nineteen Eighty-Four? 8-[

[Argos]

I think the Capital of the Federation very cool. Makes New York look like a small town. My vote: Star Wars.

[Madcat]

Probably either the Golden Oecumene (as invented by John C. Wright) or the post-imperial galaxy as invented by Asimov. You know, the one with the Foundation.

[Colt]

I would pick Known Space..

[SpaceTrekkie]

How do you think i voted? :wink:

[Spacewriter]

Me, I'd go with Lois McMaster Bujold's universe. Which isn't in the poll either. I'd choose Star Trek, but I couldn't possibly put up with all the bad physics, plus, it's boring.

I chose Star Trek because neither of the other choices appealed to me. But Bujold's universe is much more appealing (and I agree with Cordelia -- as an egalitarian I don't have a problem with aristrocracies, as long as I'm part of them! ;) )

Have you read Winterfair Gifts yet?

[DreadCthulhu]

Would a Lovecraftian universe count as science fiction??

:lol: :lol:

[JohnOwens]

Would a Lovecraftian universe count as science fiction??

:lol: :lol:

Yes, but who'd want to live (and quickly die) there?

Oh, never mind. :wink:

[Reacher]

How do you think i voted? :wink:

Judging by your love of Star Trek, poorly. :P

Being a dark jedi would be fun for a while, but the dark side ruins your body. I say the good side, always the good side. I wanna cut me a Yuzhan Vong (SP?)

Being a Spartan in Halo would be totally awesome.

[SpaceTrekkie]

How do you think i voted? :wink:

Judging by your love of Star Trek, poorly. :P

Being a dark jedi would be fun for a while, but the dark side ruins your body. I say the good side, always the good side. I wanna cut me a Yuzhan Vong (SP?)

Being a Spartan in Halo would be totally awesome.

Actually i was quite turn between chosing Star Wars or Star Trek...but of course i made the RIGHT choice of TREK...but being a dark (or even light) jedi, as u mentioned, would be great fun!

GO TREK

-ST

[Dark Helmet]

Spartan II in Halo

that or my namesake. \:D/

[pmcolt]

Of the choices given, Star Trek. Replicators and holodecks for your every desire, medical technology and knowledge that can find the cure for alien diseases within hours, reliable transporters that only very rarely spit out evil copies of you, and a full sentence of technobabble used to describe every tool, technology, or procedure. It's a geek's paradise. :o

[Kebsis]

I pick Blade Runner. Give me filth and pollution and rain and chinese food anyday over the other choices!

[The Supreme Canuck]

Move to Edmonston. :o

[Sister Ray]

I am a literary geek. Therefore, I choose the early days of Dan Simmons' Hyperion. (before the book was written).

[informant]

Am I the only one who wants to live in Nineteen Eighty-Four? 8-[
Probably. But don't you already live in it? ;)

[captain swoop]

It has to be the Space Corps for me.

2nd Technician Swoop

[Diamond]

"He say you Blade Runner!"
"Tell him I'm eating!"

Star Trek would be cool except for Q :o

Star Wars would be cool, apart from wookies :roll:

I'm actually related to one of the directors of Star Wars.... 8)

[milli360]

Star Wars would be cool, apart from wookies
What's wrong with wookies? Or do you mean Gungans, or Ewoks?

[Reacher]

Yeh, I wanna cut me a Gungan as well.

[Kebsis]

Anyone here ever play the Blade Runner PC game? If you havn't I recommend you pick it up as soon as possible, its only about twenty bucks now and Westwood has gone belly up last I heard, so I wont be around forever. But it really was a great adventure game.

[darkhunter]

I would pick Known Space..Picked Bladerunned as the closest to Known Space (the analog breaks down quickly if you look to close...)

But I want to live in known space, maybe find some Tree of Life :D , and go to Ringworld....

[Betenoire]

Hey, how 'bout Discworld?

[tazmandevil3]

Star Wars, all the way.

I love my Star Wars Galaxies game. :)

[darkhunter]

Hey, how 'bout Discworld? That would be my choice for a fantasy world to live in--no argument there :D

[Pi Man]

SpaceBalls! :D

No... No... really... I picked Star Trek. I mean, Star Wars is awfully tempting, but I might end up as a Gungan... :P

Of course, I might end up as a tribble on Star Trek. :D

[Sever]

-Known Space
-Star Wars
-Star Trek

[Mr. X]

But what if you're a dark jedi in Star Wars! Choking fools and slashing rebels!

And what if you had to clean out the entire population of Ewoks, Wookies and Gugans for the good of the Empire!

How about being Grand Moff Tarkin, and blowing up Alderaan! Once we're at it, Endor, Kashyyyk, Dagobah and that stupid Naboo!

Or being Boba Fett! And getting killed by being inadvertently struck in the back by Han Solo *cough*

Or how about being Jabba the Hutt! Being big, fat, rich and lazy! With slave women too!

And Star Trek... I mean they wear spandex pajamas all the time! Their weapons look like TV remote controls or Mattel toys! There's only moderate conflict, and diplomatic incidents, and neutral zones, and more diplomacy, and yet more talking about morality and the united federation of planets. It would only be fun being a Klingon, and even then, there's the smell!

[tazmandevil3]

Now that is a difficult choice: Star Wars or Spaceballs. :P

Actually, the most difficult choice for me would be living in the Star Wars galaxy or Middle-earth, from Lord of the Rings.

[Mr. X]

Now that is a difficult choice: Star Wars or Spaceballs. :P

Actually, the most difficult choice for me would be living in the Star Wars galaxy or Middle-earth, from Lord of the Rings.
You obviously can't feel the power of the dark side!

What about being a rapping Vader! (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/starwarz.php)

[§rv]

I wouldn't mind living in Middle Earth as an elf in Rivendell but since we're talking science fiction, I would choose the new world down in Zealand from The Chrysalids. Hello, the power to communicate with the mind is too desirable to resist :)

[Eroica]

Dune.

[zebo-the-fat]

Known Space .. no contest!

[Sever]

Aside from having your organs harvested for traffic violations?

[jaeger]

Asimov's universe, but in the pre-Foundation series - about the time of "The Robots of Dawn." Imagine meeting R. Daneel Olivaw!

[Eroica]

Asimov's universe, but in the pre-Foundation series - about the time of "The Robots of Dawn." Imagine meeting R. Daneel Olivaw!
Isn't he still around in the Foundation series?

[jaeger]

Asimov's universe, but in the pre-Foundation series - about the time of "The Robots of Dawn." Imagine meeting R. Daneel Olivaw!
Isn't he still around in the Foundation series?

R. Daneel appears throughout the series, sometimes in various guises. As much as I love the original three-book Foundation series, I think Asimov's writing at its best is in "The Robots of Dawn." R. Daneel's character fully develops in that book.

[stelmosfire]

Barsoom. That Dejah Thoris is a babe.

[siriusastronomer]

of the choices given i chose star trek. of the not-choices-given i'd choose somewhere (good) from Stargate...or just world at the SGC and get to go on all the fun missions. god i love that show!

[Reacher]

Being a Luxon would be so awesome. I don't know who would win a fight, a Spartan II or a Luxon male. That'd be interesting.

If I were a Luxon, I'd commit my life to building a harem of Nebari females......

I'll shut up now.

[Diamond]

Star Wars would be cool, apart from wookies
What's wrong with wookies? Or do you mean Gungans, or Ewoks?

Yes, ewoks is what I meant, although wookies are still pretty silly. #-o

[Diamond]

Am I the only one who wants to live in Nineteen Eighty-Four? 8-[

Yes. [-X

[Ilya]

Known Space, post-organ banks period. I know then I'd have to deal with Kzinti, but they are not nearly as bad as some (hell, A LOT) of humans.

[JohnOwens]

I voted Star Trek, but given other options, I think put me in Known Space too.