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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AKKuya on June 27, 2020, 09:22:57 PM
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Local DJs in Columbia, Mo who spend time drinking beer come up with fantastic questions on air and get crazy responses. If you were able to be transported to another reality based on a book or film, then which one would you choose and why?
Film?
24th Century of Star Trek through The Next Generation/Deep Space 9/Voyager.
Why? At almost 50, the medical advances have cured just about everything except the common flu. There are the rare outbreaks but the Starfleet medical Corps usually saves the day. Money isn't important within the Federation. You get to be in space and visit alien planets.
Book?
Wingman
Why? Just to fight for a shattered America and fight the good fight. Become an instant jet fighter pilot with training and experience flying a F-20 Tigershark since the hero of the story gets the only remaining F-16.
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Local DJs in Columbia, Mo who spend time drinking beer come up with fantastic questions on air and get crazy responses. If you were able to be transported to another reality based on a book or film, then which one would you choose and why?
Film?
24th Century of Star Trek through The Next Generation/Deep Space 9/Voyager.
Why? At almost 50, the medical advances have cured just about everything except the common flu. There are the rare outbreaks but the Starfleet medical Corps usually saves the day. Money isn't important within the Federation. You get to be in space and visit alien planets.
Book?
Wingman
Why? Just to fight for a shattered America and fight the good fight. Become an instant jet fighter pilot with training and experience flying a F-20 Tigershark since the hero of the story gets the only remaining F-16.
Film... I have to go with "Easy Rider" because two guys riding down a highway are killed for no reason other than being different
Book... Has to be "Dune", "Catch 22" and "A Child's Garden of Grass" because "Dune" was full of feint within feint within feint, "Catch 22" and " A Child's Garden of Grass" are hilarious :aok
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Not really related, but I highly recommend The Man in the High Castle book and TV show on Amazon Prime. At least the first couple seasons.
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Nothing out of Hollywood would suit me.
I'm good. Thanks.
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The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad can be somewhat confusing to read...
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Elysium if I can live on the space station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j-vjtJ7PRI
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:O
I'm impressed. I expected someone to have chimed in with a pr0n reference by now. There's hope for us yet.
If I were to just be Joe Average, hard not to go with Star Trek.
Wiley.
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To me, a true alternate reality/parallel universe story involves past or present setting.
Men Like Gods (H.G. Wells) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Like_Gods)
Sidewise in Time (Murray Leinster) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewise_in_Time)
The Crossroads of Time (Andre Norton) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crossroads_of_Time)
The Long Earth (Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Earth)
The Number of the Beast (Robert A. Heinlein) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel))
The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fiction_employing_parallel_universes)
Neanderthal Parallax (Robert J Sawyer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fiction_employing_parallel_universes)
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Lots of good Heinlein options.
Being a meth on one of the Altered Carbon worlds.
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I love the look of Gotham City in Batman: The Animated Series. Something about that modern take on art deco styling really interests me.