Which sci-fi world would you want to live in?

[Nazgul35]

Consider the large amount of science fiction literature out there, in what world would you wish to live? Try and tell us why you would like that world...make us wanna live there too!!!

:evilgrin:

For me, I kinda like anything involving travel through the stars, but since Star Trek is not literature (although the federation is fine with me!!) I would have to say there would be only one time and place I would want to live....and that would be in Asimov's Lucky Star time period. Earth and the Spacer worlds were evenly matched, and there were robots....wonderful robots (although, once you find out what the robots did to the galaxy in the interest of protecting humanity...it's not so much fun!!!)

And as a bonus, in the fantasy realm, I'd have to live on the planet Pern....I would like nothing more than to impress a bronze dragon and ride thread.....

[camero]

1. Brave New World

Except for the eugenics part. Soma, lots of sex. Who could imagine?...lol

[Scurrilous]

2. Dune.

Giant Sandworms. Spice. What more could you ask for?

[MikeG]

10. I myself would prefer Caladan to Dune

However, I would go nowhere without my family atomics.

[Nazgul35]

12. there's a certain joy to being

a fremen....roaming the desert...and able to kick any Harkonen or Sadrakar's ass...

[MikeG]

17. But Caladan was ruled by the benevolent Atriedes.

The Atriedes always reminded me of Democrats. The Harkonnens acted like Republicans. I also don't like having to drink my own bodily fluids from my stillsuit to survive.

[Cat Atomic]

19. Yes yes- Caladan for me as well.

For the same reasons. It's got good government, and it's mostly ocean. Sounds idyllic. It always seems to me that Herbert based the Attreides and their world of Caladan on ancient Greece.

Or maybe I'd choose Ix... many machines on Ix... and you can get bionic eyes.

[MikeG]

24. And, of course, I'd just say no to melange.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

25. Give me Wallach XI

Mmmmm... Bene Geserit.

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Mike: (throwing rocks from the moon) "Now I understand what an orgasm feels like!" :nuke:

[bedtimeforbonzo]

32. Heinlein

is a war-mongering fascist.

Just like most so-called "libertarians"

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. We already do

1984

[DrWeird]

5. The Beyond. Or just beyond the Beyond.

Pre-Perversion of course.

[MrScorpio]

6. Star Trek's Planet Risa

Post Dominion War.

And I want the reconstruction contract as well.

I'll be responsible for rebuilding paradise.

[giantrobot_2000]

7. ..

The Utopia on Earth from Star Trek:

Their post-capitalist society doesn't use money anymore, free education for all, no wars. Entirely democratic. They are devoted to the study of science, music, art, literature, and the advancement of human understanding.

Sounds corny but I think it would be a nice place to live.

Plus they have way cool spaceships.

[LiberalVoice]

8. That does sound wonderful.

But, if I had my choice I would pick the main character from the show Nowhere Man. Fight big business and living outside of the normal "Laws" of man...

[Demonaut]

9. Sex World

cheesy porn from the seventies,

[Bridget Burke]

11. Vermillion Sands

I'd always thought the arty & surreal stories by J G Ballard were set in a future Earth. However, the linked travel site indicates branches on Mars, the Asteroids & the moons of Jupiter.

Featured attractions:

"Wind-painting and cloud-sculpting in the rosy Martian skies--try to build your own castle in the air....Try our safe one- or two-man nuclear sleds inside the orbital limits of the most contorted terrain in the Solar System! Each sled is equipped with an emergency teleport hatch. All this and hedonism too...."

www.fibitz.com/vermillion/

[tkmorris]

13. Tertius

From Heinlein's "Future History". As long as I'm a Howard :)

[blackcat77]

14. I want to be Jubal Harshaw from.....

...Stranger in a Strange Land. He's got a bad attitude toward authority, a house full of toys and three lovely ladies at his beck and call 24/7. And having Valentine Smith around would be very interesting as well...

[ornotna]

15. Omicron Persei 8

Oh wait..you said literature, never mind.

[DrWeird]

20. Their concept of "wuv" confuses and enrages me.

nt

[MrScorpio]

16. My pal, Earl Grey, of Alpha Reticuli 7 likes like Earth

I think it's because he has a thing for redheads... His alien probe.

[Occulus]

18. I think I'd like to live in

L. Ron Hubbard's (eek!) Battlefield Earth world, post-book. The Earth is reletively unpopulated, there's massively high technology available, common metals to us are of high value to those Out There... what fun.

Then again, maybe not.

[MercutioATC]

21. Same as the "fantasy" thread. Heinlein's world...

I've been enchanted with it since I was about 7.

[BrotherBuzz]

22. Slaughterhouse Five

I want to live on planet Tralfamadore, mate with an actress called Montana Wildhack, and learn all about time warps. Cool.

[FloridaJudy]

23. Beta Colony

From Lois McMaster Bujold's *Vorcosigan* novels: long life, lots of hot sex, equality and diversity, little violence.

Pern is also very, very cool, but only if I can be a Bard or a Dragon rider - not the kid who has to clean the stables. Medieval type worlds have their drawbacks...

Darkover only if I can be a Free Amazon midwife, or a matrix monitor.

Ahabar, Hobbs Land, Pertaybee, Foundation, Heinlein's mars and Varley's moon colony.

BTW, don't you mean Asimov's *Caves of Steel* novels? Lucky Star was written during the fifties, back when our knowledge of the other planets was pretty primative...

[Nazgul35]

26. No No No

during the caves of steal earth is a world that is dominated and controlled by the Spacer worlds....those who live on Earth are claustrophobic and those who live on the spacer worlds are too dependent on robots, which is why R.Gascon(?) irradiates earth's soil to drive humanity out into the galaxy....

[Feanorcurufinwe]

27. Michael Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time

[jobycom]

28. Gene Wolf's Whorl, or China Mieville's New Crobuzon

Both writers create the most fascinating universes mixing alien culture with mechanical or scientific creations. Wolf is such a great writer I just imagine his universe would have a degree of elagance even in its most squalid pits.

[IndianaGreen]

29. The restaurant at the end of the universe

From the Douglas Adams novel of the same name.

I would like to meet Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and Zaphod Beeblebrox.

42 is the answer!

[Nay]

30. Ecotopia.

Callenbach made up a cool Northeast US.

[shimmergal]

31. Norman Spinrad's Pacifica.

Democratic, true participatory government on a world of oceans and beautiful archipelagos. Free media access for ALL citizens (defuses the connection between money and free speech). Egalitarian social structure. "Citizens stakes" granted when young people come of age.
Economy a happy mesh of free enterprise and state oversight.

Alas, it's only featured in one book of his, and I forget the title right now.

[corporatewhore]

33. the Bay Area in Starhawk's The Fifth Scared Thing

[LWolf]

34. The Planet Arzor

Andre Norton

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. Trek

There are trek novels which are not rewrites of episodes and the movies, so I say we can vote for it. :)

Also, would not mind giving Al a hand while he's helping out Sam on Quantum Leap.

[Kamika]

36. star trek

during the tng/ds9 era

[ThoughtCriminal]

37. I want to get back to my Universe

The one where Al Gore did not have a beard and Spock won't.

[frogfromthenorth2]

38. ---- WaterWorld ---- Hey!.... I love sailing!

eom

[Sentath]

39. Linda Nagata's

Nanotech Sci-Fantasy world