Which Science Fiction universe would you find most interesting

[YankeyMCC]

Poll question: Which Science Fiction universe would you find most interesting

to live in.

I saw the poll yesterday about Soap opera towns. I don't think I could even name a soap opera town. So here's a poll for all us SciFi geeks.


For the Asimov's choice tell us - Would you be an Earther, Spacer, Settler, Second Foundationer, Foundationer (trader, priest, etc...)


I ran out of room so if you want an "Other" just tell us.

[BikeWriter]

1. Robert Heinlein's, of course.

[Squeech]

2. Yow!

That means we'd be approaching the era of Nehemiah Scudder, the First Prophet! :scared:

Me, I'd like to live in Larry Niven's Known Space. I'd like the teleportation network, and the chance to befriend sentient cats. I'll take my chances with the organleggers.

[BikeWriter]

4. Heinlein's characters are sexy, and everyone's a genius...

Sort of like DU. :)

[YankeyMCC]

7. I probably should've included that one

In fact RAH was really my first classic SciFi author that I read (JL Chalker was my actual first..so I took a big step :) )

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Most interesting? Philip K Dick's in "Man in the High Tower".

[TommyO]

5. As the first voter: Firefly!

As long as I can bunk with Nathan Fillion in full cowboy garb and Adam Baldwin in anything he chooses to wear (or not wear).

[Bridget Burke]

6. Another vote for Firefly.

The Firefly "universe" is a system composed of planets & (mostly terraformed) moons. There's a tentative diagram here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_planets_and_moons

Looks like a lot of interesting places--which we would have been able to visit, if not for the Idiots at Fox. Surely, Serenity would have found more excuses to visit the "big" worlds, where many combinations of society & environment might be found.

There was even variation among the terraformed moons that mostly looked like Southern California. Who can forget the mudders of Jaynestown?

Perhaps a few moons had so much water that, after terraforming, they were only fit for aquaculture. Just think! Worlds with Nothing but Shrimp!

[YankeyMCC]

8. True

and really that can be said of nearly all of the settings with FTL also.

I love Firefly and yet the whole FTL or not question did nag at me. I like the idea of a star cluster in that wiki article, I'd not heard that one before. I don't know if in reality there is a such a thing as a star cluster with the stars close enough to make FTL unnecessary but I think that's moving in the right direction.

There's a similar question about the colonies in BSG. But they clearly have FTL.

[Bridget Burke]

12. According to Whedon, there's no FTL in the Firefly 'verse.

"Earth that was" may not mean that Earth has been destroyed. Multi-generation ships carried the settlers out. And nobody living out there can ever return to Earth. At the very best, they could get on a ship & hope their grandkids lived long enough to see the old planet.

The star cluster may be a scientific stretch. But all too many science fiction shows feature numerous "alien" species who are English-speaking bipeds with weird foreheads. I can accept the convention for the purpose of story-telling. But Whedon already did the weird forehead thing!

[133724]

9. The Lathe of Heaven...

Why settle for someone elses universe.... make you own....

[derby378]

10. I have to throw in a vote for Star Wars...

Mad props for Star Trek as always, because it gave hope that all of mankind - regardless of race, gender, disability, or whatever - could reach for the stars. And mad props to Martin Luther King, Jr. for convincing Nechelle Nichols to take the Uhura role.

But the Star Wars universe is a little different. When a bunch of marauding TIE fighters can be blasted out of the heavens by a beat-up spacecraft held together with bailing wire and pure gumption, that means something.

[BarenakedLady]

11. I voted for Star Trek TNG

Though Pern would be nice, well except for the Thread...I'd like to be a dragon rider though. :)

althought that's more Fantasy, so nvm.

[Ravenseye]

19. That's what the Holodeck is for.

You could live in STTNG and then go to a holodeck and have a fun regular weekly, but safe, fantasy life playing a dragonrider of Pern fighting Thread!

[BarenakedLady]

21. Ooooooo

Good point. :thumbsup:

[mikeiddy]

13. What about Niven's Known Space?

I'd like to hang w/ Louie Woo

[cemaphonic]

14. Iain Banks' Culture

Hedonistic post-scarcity society where people are pretty much free to pursue whatever interests or hobbies they want. Their foriegn policy is surprisingly agressive (though well-intentioned) for a bunch of space hippies, but it probably serves the purpose of separating the more sociopathic elements from the rest of society.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Banks is amazing! Probably a safer universe than Alistair Reynolds', too.

'Consider Phlebas' had subplots & scenes that would have each been enough for a book from some authors.

[ceile]

15. TNG for sure.

[Broken_Hero]

16. Other....

The world/universe of Roland Deschain....

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Hmmm ... summary for those unfamiliar ? nt

[Broken_Hero]

25. Enjoy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_of_Gilead

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Ah. Not SF. No wonder. nt

[Broken_Hero]

27. I consider it to be Sci-Fi

but its all up to your POV....:D Dimensional doors, advanced technology....its all in there, even Aliens....:D

[_testify_]

17. Other - William Gibson's The Sprawl

[Ravenseye]

18. The Federation

While I enjoy most other settings more to watch, I'd rather live in the Federation in Star Trek.

Liberal, no money, replicators so you can eat or have whatver you want. Holodecks. Sex planets. Work to expand knowledge, instead of having to scrounge to survive. I'd be all over it.

[YankeyMCC]

20. I'm a little surprised not one vote for

Red/Green/Blue Mars or "Engines of Light" here at DU.

And I guess I'm the only one who dreamed of owning my own Foundation Trader ship or joining a craving out a new Settler world. :)

[Crazy Dave]

22. Logan's Run

Once you've outlived your usefulness to society, they off ya'

Or Soylent Green, once you've outlived your usefulness to society, they eat ya'

[Arkham House]

28. Foundation, all the way...in the period of the Mule...

...it's always fascinated me...the all-human Universe...and the Mule Era, and its aftermath, wpuld be an incredibly cool time to see--drama, and sacrifice, and rebirth...

[Liberalynn]

29. My "Other" Choices

Great question and poll. I would like to live in one of these five science fiction universes although some of them might be considered more fantasy than sciene fiction and my reasons may be more girly than geeky. !:blush: :rofl:


5. The original late 1970's Battle Star Galactica- A fair and good leader in Adama, and lets' face it, I wouldn't mind being wing woman to either Starbuck(Dirk Benedict) or Apollo (Richard Hatch)!

4. Gene Rodenberry's Andromeda- Captain Dylan Hunt's a little preachy and I sure wouldn't want to be eaten by a Magog, but the Captain also had his admirable qualities, Harper's funny and comes up with great inventions, and maybe Becca could teach me the fine art of sarcasm and how to kick butt when necessary.

3. Hercules The Legendary Journeys universe. Herc and Iolaus would be two guys you'd want on your side when a nasty Hydra or vengeful god was on your tail. Iolaus was cute, funny, and a scrappy defender. Ares was sexy and funny, and easily defeated, just what you want in a bad god! And Hercules was well Hercules. Golden, muscular, and gorgeous, and oh those blue, blue eyes. I confess I kind of like long hair on some guys.

2 Gondor under the rule of King Aragorn- A brave, honorable, and just leader. Wow what a concept!

1. Charmed- One word will suffice-COLE!:woohoo: