70s Sci Fi Sleepers

[Ruin Explorer]

Is Wings of Honneamise SF? I could probably argue both yes and no...

(Which is a good thing! That's how you find out where the border is.)

It's set on a non-Earth or not-our-Earth planet and it's got a science-based story, with zero fantasy, and a focus on the wonder and importance of science (also technology is important and has developed a little differently to ours). It's certainly speculative fiction, people who "like science fiction" will pretty much universally like it, so trying to suggest it isn't sci-fi is just "being difficult" (or more precisely - contrarian), I would suggest.

I mean, what does Wikipedia call it, if we're going to appeal to authority like the OED:

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Oh it says "science fiction". So pretty clear.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Since we're not completely excluding made-for-TV here, I'll point at "The People", to the best of my knowledge the only attempt to film any of the Zenna Henderson stories. It isn't perfect, but its surprisingly faithful to its sourcework for the time.

 

[Ryujin]

Since we're not completely excluding made-for-TV here, I'll point at "The People", to the best of my knowledge the only attempt to film any of the Zenna Henderson stories. It isn't perfect, but its surprisingly faithful to its sourcework for the time.

If we're going to toss in made-for-TV then I'll add "Genesis II" (starring Alex Cord, 1973) and "Planet Earth" (starring John Saxon, 1974), which were both pilots made by Gene Roddenberry. They were what eventually became "Andromeda", starring Kevin Sorbo.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

If we're going to toss in made-for-TV then I'll add "Genesis II" (starring Alex Cord, 1973) and "Planet Earth" (starring John Saxon, 1974), which were both pilots made by Gene Roddenberry. They were what eventually became "Andromeda", starring Kevin Sorbo.

They weren't very good but they did not deserve Kevin Sorbo. Yikes.

 

[Ryujin]

They weren't very good but they did not deserve Kevin Sorbo. Yikes.

As post apocalyptic SciFi goes, I quite enjoyed them. Back then I was hoping that the series would be produced, with John Saxon as the lead.

 

[dragoner]

Saturday afternoon sci-fi was great.

 

[Thomas Shey]

If we're going to toss in made-for-TV then I'll add "Genesis II" (starring Alex Cord, 1973) and "Planet Earth" (starring John Saxon, 1974), which were both pilots made by Gene Roddenberry. They were what eventually became "Andromeda", starring Kevin Sorbo.

Hmmm. I'm familiar with both of those and though they show a relationship with each other, its hard to see much of one with Andromeda other than the latter being (very broadly) post-apocalypse. Its the difference between Gamma World and Fragged Empire.