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Here's a little funny story I read in a book written by Carl Sagan, God rest his soul. I can't remember exactly which one, since I read four of his books. I think it was The Demon Haunted World, I'm not sure. But here goes: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were letting off some...

We all heard about Roswell. A weather blob fell off the sky and the locals, after seeing materials unknown to them until then and the army surrounding the place, they thought that aliens landed in their peaceful town. Some people still believe that. And it's no surprise that ever since then...

Phil Dick is my favorite sci-fi writer. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep is my favorite novel and Second Variety is my favorite short story. With these two and not only, Phil tried to warn us what will happen if we build robots in our own image. And here we are, doing just that today. We...

Wow. That's what I call a diplomatic answer. People like you are rare.

Battlefield Earth, maybe, which was tainted by a craphole of an adaptation, staring Travolta.

That's far from what I was thinking about when I wrote this.

L. Ron Hubbard was a con man, abuser, liar, cheat, megalomaniac, pathetic excuse for a human being. Everyone, myself included, knows that. But that was the man. When it comes to his art, I'll bet at least 1% of his work can be called decent, to say the least. What do you guys say? Yay or nay?

Well, we have overpopulation, the forrests are going away, soon enough we'll have to eat bugs, pollution is at a gargantuan rate, and, not so long from now, we will sun-bathe in Siberia in January. That's how.

In my opinion, the film that predicted our times best is "Soylent Green," and the author who did so was John Brunner, with his The Sheep Look Up and Zanzibar. What do you guys think?

Hello, everyone and thank you for welcoming me. My name is Gabriel Alexander, I'm from Romania and I'm a sci-fi junkie. I can't have enough of reading sci-fi books and short stories. My favorite author is Philip K. Dick, my favorite book is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and my favorite...