Worst Sci-fi
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Worst Sci-fi
What is the worst Sci-fi you
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For me, I would be almost all science fiction in my home country singapore, not that I don't support my country authors, but they are just have no idea of what correctly defined a science fiction. For most of the books I read, the authors did not even understand the logic of science.
One of them is about Singapore vanished completely because some weird alien 'vanishing' beam hit singapore, and those alien come from the 6th dimension, and the day was saved thanks a kid and the alien princess who manage to destroy the weapon. To me, it looks like the author does not even have a basic idea what dimension mean and all alien technology is just pure wank.
Did I mention that in the next book, an alien warlord wanted to start world war 3 by the president of united states and proclaiming that the world should be under the control of USA, which pissed the chinese off.
-Seen?
-Read?
For me, I would be almost all science fiction in my home country singapore, not that I don't support my country authors, but they are just have no idea of what correctly defined a science fiction. For most of the books I read, the authors did not even understand the logic of science.
One of them is about Singapore vanished completely because some weird alien 'vanishing' beam hit singapore, and those alien come from the 6th dimension, and the day was saved thanks a kid and the alien princess who manage to destroy the weapon. To me, it looks like the author does not even have a basic idea what dimension mean and all alien technology is just pure wank.
Did I mention that in the next book, an alien warlord wanted to start world war 3 by the president of united states and proclaiming that the world should be under the control of USA, which pissed the chinese off.
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Seen- Battle field Earth, or the first seasonor two of Enterprise.
Read- the second Dune prequel trilogy, all of it .
Usually I avoid bad sci-fi quite easily nowadays, the Dune was caused by my being a robot/Dune fanatic, causing a temporary lapse of critical judgement skills
Read- the second Dune prequel trilogy, all of it .
Usually I avoid bad sci-fi quite easily nowadays, the Dune was caused by my being a robot/Dune fanatic, causing a temporary lapse of critical judgement skills
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I honestly can't say I've seen all that much bad sci-fi, and most of the bad stuff I have seen I watched deliberately to MST3K it.
The worst I've read is "Battlefield Earth." The first book I couldn't slog my way through (and only one other's been added to the list since, but it doesn't really count).
The worst I've read is "Battlefield Earth." The first book I couldn't slog my way through (and only one other's been added to the list since, but it doesn't really count).
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Seen - 'Space Mutiny'. Where the space combat scenes are outtakes from Battlestar Galactica and the finale is a chase scene in futuristic golf carts in an oil refinery.
Read - Time enough for love. OK, OK, Rob. I get the idea. Lazarus is a survivor. Now can something interesting happen, please?
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BSG 1980 worst show I'd seen.
Worst novel well frankly I have a love for the cheese and the bad, So I never really had one.
Just have to be crazy enough to view it from a certain perspective and thought.
BSG 1980 was just bad because they repeated the same thing over and over; and that made it just plain boring.
Worst novel well frankly I have a love for the cheese and the bad, So I never really had one.
Just have to be crazy enough to view it from a certain perspective and thought.
BSG 1980 was just bad because they repeated the same thing over and over; and that made it just plain boring.
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Seen: Battlefield Earth, hands down. It is hands down the worst movie I have ever seen period, with The Big Bounce coming in a close second.
Read: Since I don't want to piss off the Ringworld fans in the audience, I'll just say that I found it excessively dull. However, the very very worst sci-fi I have ever read in my entire life has to be...HAS to be...a tie between The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton and The New Rebellion by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Read: Since I don't want to piss off the Ringworld fans in the audience, I'll just say that I found it excessively dull. However, the very very worst sci-fi I have ever read in my entire life has to be...HAS to be...a tie between The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton and The New Rebellion by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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What? The worst? Granted, these are hardly the crown jewels of SW EU, but compared to The Crystal Star -- which, among other things, introduced Centaurs into the SW universe -- they aren't really that bad. The New Rebellion was actually enjoyable on repeated readings.Dalton wrote:Seen: Battlefield Earth, hands down. It is hands down the worst movie I have ever seen period, with The Big Bounce coming in a close second.
Read: Since I don't want to piss off the Ringworld fans in the audience, I'll just say that I found it excessively dull. However, the very very worst sci-fi I have ever read in my entire life has to be...HAS to be...a tie between The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton and The New Rebellion by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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Watched: Matrix: Revolutions
Read: Although the aforementioned The Crystal Star comes close, nothing matches the sheer boredom level of Stranger in a Strange Land. From my experience of Heinlein, his novels are either really good, or they completely suck. Stranger in a Strange Land falls into the second category.
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Why do people hate Battlefield Earth so much? Is it because it doesn't make any sense at all? I mean it is kind of stupid in many ways, including the redicoulous concept of a nuclear weapon sterilizing a planet, let alone blowing it to pieces. Yet I don't see anything that would warrant such large dislike for the movie.
Worst Sci-Fi ever seen:
A Sci-Fi channel original production, I don't recal what it was called, but bunch of buglike aliens take over the Earth. They have a bunch of poorly designed energy weapons, think Stargate TV-show type staff weapons, but the bolts travel slower but do a bit more damage. In any case, they get owned by a bunch of humans using bows arrows and swords. What particularly irked me was the acting, the special effects, the script, it was all huge mounds of suckitude.
Worst Sci-Fi ever read:
I have yet to read any sci-fi that I did not like.
[quote"Adrian Laguna]Worst Sci-Fi ever seen:
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Well, what a surprise. I think I now know why people dislike BE. Though that Sci-Fi Channel abortion of a TV movie that I saw was much, much, worse than anything you might object to in BE. Seriusly, the only reason I even saw any part of it was because I was waiting for "Man With the Screaming Brain" to start.
Worst Sci-Fi ever seen:
A Sci-Fi channel original production, I don't recal what it was called, but bunch of buglike aliens take over the Earth. They have a bunch of poorly designed energy weapons, think Stargate TV-show type staff weapons, but the bolts travel slower but do a bit more damage. In any case, they get owned by a bunch of humans using bows arrows and swords. What particularly irked me was the acting, the special effects, the script, it was all huge mounds of suckitude.
Worst Sci-Fi ever read:
I have yet to read any sci-fi that I did not like.
[quote"Adrian Laguna]Worst Sci-Fi ever seen:
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Well, what a surprise. I think I now know why people dislike BE. Though that Sci-Fi Channel abortion of a TV movie that I saw was much, much, worse than anything you might object to in BE. Seriusly, the only reason I even saw any part of it was because I was waiting for "Man With the Screaming Brain" to start.
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I haven't seen 'Battlefield Earth', but I've read the novel it was based on. And just when I thought it couldn't get worse, I was introduced to L. Ron Hubbard's 'Mission Earth' series. (I first read the novels when I was in a mental hospital-- I was bored-- so you can understand what kind of mentality you must be in to actually want to read Hubbard's crap.)Dalton wrote:Seen: Battlefield Earth, hands down. It is hands down the worst movie I have ever seen period, with The Big Bounce coming in a close second.
'The Courtship of Princess Leia'-- which should've been titled 'The Feminazi Propaganda Set In the Star Wars Galaxy So Its Scientifically Ignorant Author Can Make Money'-- was what killed my interest in licensed novels. Having it follow up the Thrawn Trilogy was a disappointment as great as having 'The Matrix Revolutions' follow up the original movie. (I actually enjoyed 'Reloaded'.)Read: Since I don't want to piss off the Ringworld fans in the audience, I'll just say that I found it excessively dull. However, the very very worst sci-fi I have ever read in my entire life has to be...HAS to be...a tie between The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton and The New Rebellion by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Please do not make Americans fight giant monsters.
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
Read: Battlefield Earth. An unexceptional concept that might have been reasonably explored in a 300 page book was instead stretched out into a ponderous, endless epic of yawn-inducing filler. Although the first installment of the Butlerian Jihad trilogy will also always occupy an especially dark and putrid place in my heart.
Watched: Supernova. Where does one even begin? I suspect Horror Planet (also known as Inseminoid) and Humanoids From the Deep are probably worse but I'd rather walk into the local Inquisitorium office with a HORUS RULES t-shirt and turn myself in for arcoflagellation than actually watch them.
Watched: Supernova. Where does one even begin? I suspect Horror Planet (also known as Inseminoid) and Humanoids From the Deep are probably worse but I'd rather walk into the local Inquisitorium office with a HORUS RULES t-shirt and turn myself in for arcoflagellation than actually watch them.
Worst SciFi that I've seen would probably have to the Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers. There have been worse movies, certainly, but it was a huge letdown because I had high hopes for it. Between the cheap special effects (they didn't have any of the CGI models of the ships from the original series so all the ships looked like ass), the lame introduction to the crew (felt like sitting in on a self help class), the unoriginal storyline (yet another race of malevolent First Ones screwing with us), and the whole thing with the zero gee virtual weapon control thingy (hence the Dragon Ball Z moment there)...well, it was pain.
As far as what I've read...probably the first Dune prequel. Only read the first because it was bad enough that I was scared away from the rest. It was nothing more than a lousy fanfic, IMHO.
As far as what I've read...probably the first Dune prequel. Only read the first because it was bad enough that I was scared away from the rest. It was nothing more than a lousy fanfic, IMHO.
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