[ SECRET POST #3153 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3153 ⌋

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Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[(Anonymous)]

I like New-Age 70s hippie era science fiction. All that astral travelling aliens, and everyone living in mystic communes, and egg-planets, and space ships crewed by people who just travel the stars fucking for enlightenment; I unashamedly and unironically love it. I know it isn't grim or miserable and therefore not "real" or respectable by current nerd standards, but I love it anyway.

Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[dethtoll]

Oh, who cares, that stuff can be kinda fun in its own right. If nothing else, it represented a more genuine sense of idealism than a lot of sci-fi before or since. Probably the only thing that even came close was Gene Roddenberry's vision for Star Trek.

Someone's gotta love that silly stuff, it might as well be you. :)

Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[(Anonymous)]

Even if I liked the moon-egg from Doctor Who "Kill the Moon"? Loved it. Classic 70s new age fun.

Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[(Anonymous)]

Have you watched Space 1999? the first season is very new agey.

Fanvid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqfDNaez5EA

Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[(Anonymous)]

If you can find any copies of the Dangerous Visions books around, do pick them up. That's exactly what you're describing, OP, and you will be able to find new-to-you authors to read.

Also Riverworld. Definitely the Riverworld books. (Philip Jose Farmer) Dune, and other Frank Herbert books, as well, (He didn't just write Dune!!)

If you don't mind fantasy, Gene Wolfe is better than Zelazny IMO but the Chronicles of Amber is a long-ish read that should keep you occupied. If you want more of the same, only with vampires(ish) and loads more sexx0rs (not my thing, but eh), The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock are what you're looking for. That's perhaps a bit more grimdark than you're looking. (But funny. It's very very very funny. Not in a ha-ha type of way, but in an acerbic wit that has the same pH as the Alien queen's saliva from Ridley Scott's movies does.

LeGuin's Hainish books, but you know this already. (If you don't know this already, why don't you know this already?)

Barry Malzberg's writing is definitely outre, but he seems to be an either you love it, or you hate it type of thing. His 1990s short stories were also really good, but may be harder to find?

In TV, you can get The Starlost online these days, though it's probably only the fashions that are '70s, and it's very very G-rated. Same with Lost in Space. The original Outer Limits is a bit more like that, but it's '60s and also very PG.

Oops. I wasn't sure if you wanted recs, or just wanted to talk about 70's-era SFF/spec fic.... XD

Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[(Anonymous)]

Got any recs?

Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I gave a few. ^^^^^^^ Happy reading!

Re: Opinions you fear people will mock you for

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think the only writer I have really ever read that sort of story with was Traci Harding.

I liked it better than hard sci-fi because it felt a bit more fantasy, but it remained too sci-fi for my liking, as I like unambiguous magic.