Audience quiz:
Dec. 14th, 2012 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSci-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.
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.
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:11 am (UTC)-- Steve wins the race to the bottom.
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:12 am (UTC)(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.)
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:24 am (UTC)Oh, and also, Firefly! "Earth-that-was"
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:25 am (UTC)-- Steve still recalls the show's mighty exercise of the awesome power of chromakey effects.
(edited to fix avatars, as Anton Ego is really appropriate to invoke here)
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-15 03:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-15 03:33 am (UTC)Songs of Distant Earth (putatively destroyed)
Childhoods End (destroyed)
Varley's EIght World's stories (forbidden)
LeGuin's Hainish stories (pitiful)
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:37 am (UTC)Logan's Run, in a way.
The Foundation series, by Asimov
Ice Pirates
Serenity
The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
Eclipse Phase RPG
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Date: 2012-12-15 03:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-15 03:41 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-12-15 04:19 am (UTC)Lord of Light
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Date: 2012-12-15 04:20 am (UTC)-- 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.
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Date: 2012-12-15 04:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-15 04:32 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2012-12-15 04:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-15 04:40 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-12-15 04:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-15 04:52 am (UTC)-- A <3