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<blockquote data-quote="Azgulor" data-source="post: 4666347" data-attributes="member: 14291"><p>I'm a big fan of sci-fi and in the early days of my RPG-ing life, I ran more Star Frontiers than D&D. Like most gamers, I suspect, Fantasy RPGing is my bread-n-butter genre of choice but I still need my sci-fi fix now and again. Unsurprisingly, my tastes in film, TV, and fiction tend to feed my gaming itch as well. After finishing the latest fantasy series I was reading, I was once again itching to get into some good sci-fi.</p><p></p><p>And then I looked for some and remembered how frakkin' hard it is.</p><p></p><p>I don't want preachy sci-fi. I don't want the one-trick pony sci-fi where the whole story hangs on a singular element (typically technology, an alien species, etc.). I want gamer-sci-fi: it's pretty easy to find in film and TV but it seems like it's the Holy Grail of sci-fi fiction. Military sci-fi comes about the closest with the only other alternative being licensed properties like Star Wars, Star Trek, or Starcraft novels, all of which are ok in small doses. </p><p></p><p>But where are the heavyweight sci-fi series that are comparable to their fantasy counterparts? Where's the action-packed & suspense-driven sci-fi that keeps you turning the pages? I'm lucky to find it one time in 10.</p><p></p><p>So to my ENWorld brethren, what sci-fi novels scratch your gaming itch? Why/how do they lend themselves to RPG-style sci-fi?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Azgulor's ideas of Gamer Sci-Fi:</p><p></p><p>Movies: Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner, Minority Report, Jurassic Park, Terminator movies, Matrix movies, Indiana Jones movies, Stargate, Serenity, The Sixth Day, Total Recall, Star Wars (although I consider it Science Fantasy, not true sci-fi), War of the Worlds</p><p></p><p>TV: Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (new series), Farscape, Firefly, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, Jericho</p><p></p><p>Video Games: Halo, Dead Space, System Shock 2, Starcraft, F.E.A.R., Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Laura Croft games, Mass Effect, Force Unleashed, Far Cry, Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azgulor, post: 4666347, member: 14291"] I'm a big fan of sci-fi and in the early days of my RPG-ing life, I ran more Star Frontiers than D&D. Like most gamers, I suspect, Fantasy RPGing is my bread-n-butter genre of choice but I still need my sci-fi fix now and again. Unsurprisingly, my tastes in film, TV, and fiction tend to feed my gaming itch as well. After finishing the latest fantasy series I was reading, I was once again itching to get into some good sci-fi. And then I looked for some and remembered how frakkin' hard it is. I don't want preachy sci-fi. I don't want the one-trick pony sci-fi where the whole story hangs on a singular element (typically technology, an alien species, etc.). I want gamer-sci-fi: it's pretty easy to find in film and TV but it seems like it's the Holy Grail of sci-fi fiction. Military sci-fi comes about the closest with the only other alternative being licensed properties like Star Wars, Star Trek, or Starcraft novels, all of which are ok in small doses. But where are the heavyweight sci-fi series that are comparable to their fantasy counterparts? Where's the action-packed & suspense-driven sci-fi that keeps you turning the pages? I'm lucky to find it one time in 10. So to my ENWorld brethren, what sci-fi novels scratch your gaming itch? Why/how do they lend themselves to RPG-style sci-fi? Azgulor's ideas of Gamer Sci-Fi: Movies: Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner, Minority Report, Jurassic Park, Terminator movies, Matrix movies, Indiana Jones movies, Stargate, Serenity, The Sixth Day, Total Recall, Star Wars (although I consider it Science Fantasy, not true sci-fi), War of the Worlds TV: Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (new series), Farscape, Firefly, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, Jericho Video Games: Halo, Dead Space, System Shock 2, Starcraft, F.E.A.R., Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Laura Croft games, Mass Effect, Force Unleashed, Far Cry, Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl [/QUOTE]
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