Books: I've only read one Honor Carrington novel and liked the way the whole space war was approached in it. Picked up a Culture book, found it tedious, unimaginative and boring, had to struggle through the whole thing. Dune, rereading it for the umphteenth time. Douglas Adams, like the witty stuff. Read the Gap series, liked it, personally I could not see it in New Eden. Cyberpunk has always been fun, love the Gibson stuff, been reading George Foy seems like he has nice stories to tell. Bruce Sterling is awesome as well. Also the oldies like Arthur C. Clarkes Childhoods End and Carl Sagans Contact. Plenty of books I've read, but for some reason every time the protagonist is pretty much invincible or a lot above the baseline population in terms of skills or resources, I lose interest.
TV&Films: I think in the early nineties there was a lot more tries to make different sorts of sci-fi. Even late eighties. There was a lot of UFO stuff, there was low budget series about some space rangers, there was a childrens show in Sky, when I was a wee little thing, with some kind of robot pterodactyl and a constant war. Plenty of invasion shows that we're scrapped after the first season.
Films. There is a lot of them, from the Last Starfighter, to the Last Mimzy.
From horrible sci-fi TV movies to big budget films like the Matrix.
From Alien to the Thing.
Basically if it has anything sci-fi in it, I will probably watch it.
All of them are crap.
I just find the way they approach the subject interesting.
Because science is fucking boring, but yet the storytellers in Hollywood make it into something with explosions, bewbs and icky aliens.
Games?
For me, none of them have overcome the wonder that I had when I was playing the first Elite.
None of them have pulled me in like the first X-COM games.
No game has improved upon Alpha Centauri.
Nothing has kept me enthralled like System Shock 2.
