Audience quiz:

[theweaselking]

Sci-fi settings where the Earth, the home of humanity, is a lost/forgotten/forbidden place: GO.

Off the top of our heads:
Dune
Titan A.E.
Battlestar Gallactica
After Earth (the movie trailer we just saw with The Smith Twins)


NB: Doctor Who does NOT count even if he's spent many episodes based on post-destruction Earth humans, because he's constantly going back to Earth. In the past. Bloody time travellers.

Comments

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Moohoohahhah... Starlost.

-- Steve wins the race to the bottom.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Iiiiiinteresting. Worth watching?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

The Stainless Steel Rat books. In the time of Slippery Jim DiGriz, there's a reference to mankind's distant past on the legendary planet Dirt, or Earth.

(They go there once, but it's in one book, and the general perception of the place is similar to that of the Garden of Eden at best.)

[thornae.livejournal.com]

... and they're messing about with time travel when they go there, so, yeah. Even more fitting.

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

Does Planet of the Apes count?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I would say "no", because they didn't know the Earth was lost until they found it again.

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

Wall-E

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

YES. I knew that one! It was on the tip of my tongue. (Brain? Fingers? it's been a long day)

Oh, and also, Firefly! "Earth-that-was"

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

I suspect Hitchhiker's Guide technically counts, though it also has a pinch of time travel in following books.

[argaive.livejournal.com]

Asimov's "Foundation" and associated books.

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

Foundation (lost)

Songs of Distant Earth (putatively destroyed)

Childhoods End (destroyed)

Varley's EIght World's stories (forbidden)

LeGuin's Hainish stories (pitiful)

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

This new one coming out, Oblivion:



Logan's Run, in a way.
The Foundation series, by Asimov
Ice Pirates
Serenity
The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
Eclipse Phase RPG

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Aw, you beat me to mentioning Eclipse Phase.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

The Xenosaga series of video games.

Does fantasy count as sci-fi here? There's Moira Moore's "hero" series of books, which I probably wouldn't think of except I'm just happening to re-read them.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

If fantasy counts, The Wheel of Time.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

Warhammer 40k might fall under "forbidden".

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I'd have to disagree; part of the canon is the millions of pilgrims who visit the shrines of Holy Terra.

-- Steve will admit that it's also part of the story canon that most of those pilgrims die of neglect or by accident during their pilgrimage.

[andrew montpetit (from livejournal.com)]

EVE. Are we surprised I came up with that one? No.

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

Dammit, that was the one I came up with.

[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

Not able to view the other comments, but can I get Planet of the Apes on a technicality?

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

Firefly
Lord of Light

[atesh42.livejournal.com]

Damn. I was going to say Lord of Light.

Trigun

The Alien series perhaps (in 4 they talk about it being a shithole that no one wants to go to).

Also, this might help: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthThatWas

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Bear's Anvil of Stars and The Forge of God. The actual destruction sequence is most entertaining.
Burgess's The End of the World News. Title says it all.
Pohl's The Far Side of Time.

Those are the tippy top of the cranium/bookshelf remembrances.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Tepper's "Raising the Stones" and a couple related works.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Dunno if that qualifies. In "Grass", IIRC the original of the "related works," the plague spread from the Grass planet through the Arbei device, I believe, even to Earth. At least to the colony planets. "Raising the Stones" features the Arbei device prominently, though hundreds, if not thousands of years later, which is why the Grass character Marjorie Westriding makes an early obscure appearance.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

E.C. Tubb's Dumarest novels. Has anyone read the last one? Any good?

Moffit's _Second Genesis_ and _Genesis Quest_.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Cowboy Bebop. Also Asimov's Foundation series.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Firefly?

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels, for most of the series Earth is forgotten and in the last few it is either forbidden or lost, depending on how you describe the fact that even after they find out they came to Pern from a different place, they still don't have the technology to get back there, or know exactly where it is.


Possibly "It's a Good Life" counts?

I know there are others I just can't think of at the moment.

[glenn-3.livejournal.com]

C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy, if I remember right. Also maybe In Conquest Born.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Star Trek Voyager? :P

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

The Liaden series by Lee and Miller has references to Terra being the most recent in a series of planets called that after original. Some indications original was Earth. But unlikely to be found since at least one universe ago.

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

Forbidden: the Schismatrix stories by Bruce Sterling. Eclipse Phase (rpg setting).

Lost/Destroyed: Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons. I think but am not sure that it's destroyed in Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief/The Fractal Prince. Firefly. The last third of Accelerando and all of Glasshouse by Charles Stross.

Lost/Forgotten: Vatta's War series by Elizabeth Moon.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Catharine Asaro's Skolian Empire series (lost).

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I know it's supposedly set in the past, but can we count Star Wars?

[thornae.livejournal.com]

Eh, if Battlestar Galactica gets in, why not?