What SciFi universe would you live in?

[Enigman]

I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

Also, did you mean ψ-Φ?

Fantasy is a genre eg. Death Note, Harry Potter, LOTR
ψ-Φ(looks cooler) or Sci-fi is also a genre eg. Star trek
I wouldn't want to live in a world controlled by a 18 year old (guessing the age, may be lower) who has the power to kill anyone and will do so when anyone opposes him...
And anyway Kira goes mad, L wins...well, more or less...If there can be more than one Kira, Near and Melo are part of L too...
BTW Did you read the manga, see the anime or the movie?
(I read the manga)
Sorry about before must have been cranky that day...

 

[Superposed_Cat]

Either HP or FRINGE! Fringe is epic.

 

[fulltime]

There are some interesting choices and reasons for them here! Revelation Space is perfect hard sf, but imho the whole fermi paradox explanation trend is starting to wear thin. I mean who wants to live in a universe constantly under threat? Thats what they told Reynolds when contracting his next three books: we want a brighter future!

Cant say I am into the Blue Remembered Earth stuff yet, i tried but it didnt want to play with me.

So fan as i am, ill go with PF Hamiltons Commonwealth - Pandoras Star will blow you away with its believable post singularity world building. And i love the way it turns the classic trope of living in a corporate controlled future into living under the benign authority of immortal great families.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Cant say I am into the Blue Remembered Earth stuff yet, i tried but it didnt want to play with me.

BRE was ok, the sequel was better IMO. I like Al Reynolds and think he's great at certain things like imparting a sense of deep history but I've always had a niggling criticism reading his books that his characters are emotionally bland.

So fan as i am, ill go with PF Hamiltons Commonwealth - Pandoras Star will blow you away with its believable post singularity world building. And i love the way it turns the classic trope of living in a corporate controlled future into living under the benign authority of immortal great families.

Lol I'm not sure how benign it really is (sure there are no GULAGs but the Commonwealth in PS/JU is essentially a plutocracy rather than a democracy) but it would be a cool place to live. I think I'd choose the Commonwealth in the Void Trilogy though set a thousand years later. Far more interesting ;)

 

[ZeGinger]

Titan-AE, Baby! that's all I need to say. one of the best SciFi movies out there. underrated though, nobody really talks about it. a shame...

 

[PAllen]

Why not the Q-continuum?

 

[strangerep]

Why not the Q-continuum?

I've been told it's really boring.

 

[PAllen]

I've been told it's really boring.

Yes, but can there really be a place so boring a Q can't change it ...

 

[strangerep]

Yes, but can there really be a place so boring a Q can't change it ...

Then why did Q leave it and go to the (normal) Star Trek universe instead?

 

[Myslius]

Doctor Who, just because you could be able to visit anyplace at anytime.

 

[adjacent]

I would prefer to live in my own imagination

 

[EBENEZR]

Fantasy is a genre eg. Death Note, Harry Potter, LOTR
ψ-Φ(looks cooler) or Sci-fi is also a genre eg. Star trek
I wouldn't want to live in a world controlled by a 18 year old (guessing the age, may be lower) who has the power to kill anyone and will do so when anyone opposes him...
And anyway Kira goes mad, L wins...well, more or less...If there can be more than one Kira, Near and Melo are part of L too...
BTW Did you read the manga, see the anime or the movie?
(I read the manga)
Sorry about before must have been cranky that day...

I saw that awful, awful film, if that's what you meant :D

 

[ComplexVar89]

Definitely Star trek TNG.

Me, too. Post Voyager, preferably. Though, if you include extra-canonical stuff like the Typhon Pact novels, things aren't really better than during the Dominion War. :P

 

[ComplexVar89]

I would prefer to live in my own imagination

I didn't know we could use our own fictional worlds. Then, I'd definitely live in mine. I'd get to have a prehensile tail. :3

 

[Pete Cortez]

Hasn't been written yet.

 

[Uollises]

Mass Effect. Liked this game and universe.

 

[schonovic]

Larry Niven's Universes. Known Space or the Co-Dominuum.

 

[schonovic]

I think I would like to live in the total recall universe; stop Arnie from activating the terraformation of Mars, because since Mars has no major scale magnetic field all the air would blow off in a couple thousand years or less anyways, and mine the turbinium to build starships to colonize the galaxy. I'd be a real hero for humanity and get my own ship.

 

[Khashishi]

I'd choose the Library of Babel.
Admittedly, the first big problem with this universe is gravity. If the library is infinite, then the distribution of mass is uniform, and there's just as much mass pulling you "up" as there is pulling you "down". In fact, there should be no up or down.

Infinity isn't just one value. There are infinite different infinities. You could have a distribution that has infinite more mass below, or infinite more mass above, or even a finite mass difference. infinity-infinity is undefined, not 0.

 

[tom aaron]

No way I'd want to be stuck on a spaceship or confined to some artificial environment on a planet...glass, plastic...I get antsy after 5 hours on an airplane. The Enterprise would wear thin after a couple days.

I need Nature, the outdoors. ..mountains, rivers, feel the sunshine. Birds, wildflowers, wolves, butterflies. I live in Western Canada for a reason.

Thus...a futuristic post apocalyptic world. Small populated areas carving out a niche. I'd like to an explorer trying to make contact with other populations. Strapping on the backpack and wandering off to find other groups. No zombies, mutants or supernatural. Coming across lost technology and trying to understand what it was...a chainsaw, CD player, typewriter, pencil sharpener, toys, etc.

 

[Janus]

Larry Niven's Universes. Known Space

Post Kzinti Wars

 

[meBigGuy]

I'll take a world with nexus 5 (Ramez Naam)

Or, a fresh new Earth at the end of Stephenson's Seveneves (although the ring seems cool too)

Maybe Earth in Old Man's War while you could get recruited and regenerated in your old age.

 

[Khatti]

The inevitable problem with this question is that most sci fi universes tend to be a bit on the dangerous side, that's why we enjoy reading about them. Who in their right-mind would want to live in the Game of Thrones Universe? Alan Dean Foster's Commonwealth has the Star Trek TNG feel of being reasonably safe--and interesting. Though I suppose the place I would most like to live is Roger Zelazny's city of Amber. I'll even take the danger.

 

[Khatti]

Just because there is no "money" does not mean there is no "currency"
and that will always create an underclass.

True enough! Absolute equality, like absolute freedom, is absolutely unattainable. However, material well-being would still be good. I'm a member of this era's underclass, but I still have a better life than William the Conqueror.

 

[Gaz]

I will have to go for Atlantis. With my personal shield and enough fire power to wipe out the entire planet when I'm not of having fun exploring the Universe I will come home and rule you all with a iron fist haha.

 

[Khatti]

I will have to go for Atlantis. With my personal shield and enough fire power to wipe out the entire planet when I'm not of having fun exploring the Universe I will come home and rule you all with a iron fist haha.

Always good to have a plan.

 

[Stephanus]

I asked this question to Doc Al in his interview, but I think it would be fun to hear from everyone. You can pick any well known SciFi universe to live in. Which would it be?

I would say Star Trek just for the holodeck and the device where food is instantly made. Seems fairly stable too.

I like star trek, too. No, holodeck is not everything Greg. It's the culture, where human (and Star Federation) is much more refined than us.

 

[Stephanus]

Me? Definetely not Mad Max or Water World!

 

[Stephanus]

Nobody chooses Flat Land?

 

[HallsofIvy]

Nobody chooses Flat Land?

Of course not! What would the women look like?