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So i have insomnia and a really bad case of ADHD, and a bit of a speed reader
was wondering if you guys could help me find some new books or shows to watch while i am up late at night
read and watch mostly scfi, space opera, military scfi, and a ton of the different flavors of fantasy
read about 60k or so books( usally one or two a day ) and burned thru a lot of different shows, so getting harder and harder to find good stuff
any thoughts on some good stuff?
was wondering if you guys could help me find some new books or shows to watch while i am up late at night
read and watch mostly scfi, space opera, military scfi, and a ton of the different flavors of fantasy
read about 60k or so books( usally one or two a day ) and burned thru a lot of different shows, so getting harder and harder to find good stuff
any thoughts on some good stuff?
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It was canceled after 1 Season but imho it was a great X-Files style show, explaining all huge events in the 60ies with an alien conspiracy. It is rarely known, so maybe you don't know it yet.
The tripods
Space 1999
Blake's 7
UFO
America sci fi
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Films
silent running (Bruce Dern)
Books Fantasy & Sci Fi
A warlock in spite of himself
The lens men series
Dragon riders of pern
Stainless steel rat
Should keep you busy for a week
It's only my opinion but....
Read pern alot when younger, stainless is still funny
And since we're on a Trek forum, I have to shout out to The Eugenics Wars (two-book series), featuring Khan's backstory.
Oh, and on the fantasy side I'd highly recommend Robin Hobb's Farseer series, starting with Assassin's Apprentice. (Starts with a trilogy, and then goes long.)
Let's see...have you read the Sword of Truth series? Those are quite excellent too.
And in sci-fi...Ringworld?
FireFly TV series and associated movie Serenity.
Book wise you can dive into the Warhammer 40k, lot of cool stuff, bit dark though. I am a fan of Ciaphis Cain branch of books. Darkly humorous.
Movie trilogy I'd recommend are the Starship troopers movies, #2 was garbage but one and 3 we're great and the animated one was good too. Rated R though due to some boobs 😉.
I dunno if Final Fantasy the spirits within is too much fantasy and not enough Syfy but it's good too especially if your a fan if Final Fantasy.
Books: Forever war is good, forever free the following up is okay but I'd recommend reading it to close out the series.
Glen Cook : Black Company is good, a bit of a dark medivalish series about a mercenary company.
Maxine McArthur has a couple good ones one is Times Past, I can't remember the one before it though.
I highly recommend Wesley Chu's Time trilogy unfortunately it is only on book 2. I don't like starting a series before it is done but the book store guy tricked me but still good books.
If I think of other books/movies I'll post them if you think it will help. Unfortunately I have read a bunch and just forget the names of the books.
With the Librivox app or from the computer you can download free (and legal) audio copies of a whole lot of very old early popular science fiction. They can be amusing. There is an old one called, "The Colors of Space" by someone I don't remember.
For television, watch all the original Stargate shows, then the Stargate Atlantis shows. They are great. Don't watch the Stargate Universe, since the characters never meshed and it was just nothing but heightened emotions, angst, and wasted opportunities.
Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. It's got a real future-noir feel to it.
The Dead Zone
Based on the Stephen King novel, I quite enjoyed this show, though I haven't watched it since it aired (it's on my watchlist, however). Plus, it's got Nicole de Boer (Ezri Dax) in it!
Andromeda
A Gene Roddenberry-inspired space opera starring Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) and produced by Majel Barrett. I rewatched this recently, and it's still quite fun — though the final season sort of falls apart, sadly.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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The best are anything by Zahn, Allston, Slackpole and Anderson, with X-Wing series, Jedi Academy Triology, Thrawn triology and Darksaber the highlights. I also liked the Medstar dualogy as it was a tribute to MASH, The Truce at Bakura, and the Courtship of Princess Leia, the and to a lesser extent the Bounty Hunters and Corellian trilogies.
It would also be intersting to go back and read some of the Han Solo and Lando prequels in light of the new movie.
Worth skipping are the Crystal Star, the Black Fleet Crysis (did not feel like Star Wars at all) and the New Jedi Order (it seemed the authors were competing to kill off established characters and planets...when I finished the last of that epic slog of a series around the same time the last of the prequel movies, I realized I liked Star Trek more than Star Wars at that point)
Outside of Trek/Wars, more recently I have been enjoying Tanya Huff's Confederation and Peacekeeper series. It's action packed, develops the various alien cultures well, and turns a few sci-fi tropes around.
Like the Huff books a lot. It’s too bad the final Peacekeeper book comes out this month with nothing more from that world on the radar.
Not to everyone’s taste, but the Liaden series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is good.
Just finished the last Peacekeeper book. There's still a couple loose ends; I don't think we're quite done with that universe yet. It would also be interesting to read some prequels & see how Torin became a badass & and how war with the typically Primacy went, now that we know alot more about them.
In the meantime I guess I'll start over from the beginning...
And for classic space military, you've got to read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman at some point.
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For starters, I recommend Peter F. Hamilton. His first trilogy was OK, but his second one is where he really hit his universe-building stride: Night’s Dawn.
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Agree Zahn's trilogy was awesome, other good ones I found to be were "Shadows of the Empire" and "I, Jedi"
Also, if you haven't spoken to a medical professional about insomnia/ADHD, I would suggest that. If you have, but not recently, I'd suggest trying again. Treatment has gotten more effective in the last decade or so.
Good luck, either way!
More recently he started a humorous superhero series with All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault. Superheros are generally my thing, but I certainly enjoyed the first book.
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and my all time favorite - Ready Player One
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