Sci-Fi, new poll.

[CB900F]

Fella's;

A comment in another thread got me to wondering about the correlation between science fiction readers & firearms enthusiasts. There would seem to be a strong positive to the proposition in my mind, but let's hear it from the general membership.

I constantly read Sci-Fi, although not exclusively.

900F

 

[clubsoda22]

I want a phaser.

 

[Pheonix]

Nope.

 

[ACP230]

I read a lot of science fiction when I was 12.
Now only occasionally.

 

[DMK]

I'm a huge sci-fi fan, always was. I read a lot of sci-fi books mostly, watch some TV and movies. Some of my favorites are the classics of the 50's and 60's.

 

[Jim March]

Hardcore .

 

[Hal]

I Grok the connection

 

[WhoKnowsWho]

Pretty good Sci-Fi fan myself here... I can look at my DVD cases and see all of the Star Trek Next Generation and Deep Space Nine sets. Among everything else like Anime and fantasy, etc.

 

[BryanP]

Science Fiction and Fantasy make up the majority of my "brain candy" reading. That is, things I read for pure enjoyment. I just finished re-reading Redshift Rendezvous by John Stith. Fun little book.

 

[Amish_Bill]

Grew up on scifi/fantasy.

don't read much of anything much anymore. :-(
I still enjoy a good scifi/fantasy read now & then. I just don't have the time for much of it.

 

[Loach]

Always loved SciFi. The sky's the limit with storytelling when you're not confined to the cultures past and present of this world. Also a big fan of speculative and near-future fiction. Larry Niven, Neal Stephenson, Phillip Jose Farmer, David Brin, Robert Heinlein etc...

Most have pretty favorable firearms content as well.

 

[RightIsRight]

Sci Fi; negative.

Although I did recently enjoy Ender's Game.

 

[lee n. field]

For many years. I don't read as much now (computer stuff takes up too much time, and I'm an adult with adult responsibilities). I also a lot pickier about what I read.

 

[Molly]

I've read way more sci-fi than I can possibly remember, and still love it. However, when earning my Computer Science degree in college, I knew a lot of other sci-fi lovers, many of whom were liberal gun-haters. Correlation? Maybe, maybe not.

 

[yayarx7]

Asimov.

 

[Dave R]

Big Sci-fi fan.

How can liberals read Heinlien and still be anti's?

 

[ChickenHawk]

Major Sci-Fi fan!

 

[MrAcheson]

Scifi/fantasy yes. Although lately I've been reading more historical war novels, C.S.Forester, Bernard Cornwell, etc. I just haven't seen much in the fantasy genre that hasn't been done already unfortunately.

How can liberals read Heinlien and still be anti's?

Because liberals, like most people, are good at missing the point.

 

[Parker Dean]

Read lots of SciFi when I was younger. I haven't found any recent authors that really work for me. Plus I've developed a taste for History, go figure.

 

[Perfesser]

Liberals don't read Heinlein.
I grew up on Heinlein and a lot of other SF writers; sad part is that most of the good writers are gone now. Larry Niven still tells good tales, and I wonder if anyone here has heard of Dean Ing.
Agree with Loach...where else could you see a British prison colony on Mars, visit Oz, meet aliens...?

 

[Mal H]

I started reading SF about the same time I started shooting - around 7 or 8. So I guess I fit the bill. Of course back then everything was all Analog, now it's all digital.

 

[Ron_Miami]

I grew up on Heinein and other hard science fiction. Still read all I can find.

Lately been reading David Weber, Elizabeth Moon, David Drake, and other military SF.

 

[Ron_Miami]

Of course I have read Dean Ing. Neat airplanes in some of his novels, but I want a 7mm chiller.

 

[Jim March]

Try Neal Stephenson - esp. "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon".

The latter technically isn't SF but it's got that "feel" without actually going there. In many ways, Cryptonomicon is a companion to John Ross' "Unintended Consequence" - what UC does for the 2nd Amendment, Crypto does for the first (and encryption, which is JUST as critical to future freedom as guns are).

"Snow Crash" on the other hand is one of the ten best Science Fiction books of all time. Of all 70's and later SF, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Snow Crash, Startide Rising by David Brin, The Mote In God's Eye by Niven/Pournelle and Ringworld by Niven are in my opinion among the best ever. If "Crypto" was SF, it'd be in that list. "Diamond Age" by Stephenson almost makes that level.

 

[wingnutx]

Hard Core scifi fan here.

That does not mean Star Trek; it means Heinlein, William Gibson, Larry Niven, Neil Stephenson, Gordon R Dickson, etc...

Edit to say that Jim March's list in the above post is excellent.