I'm SS. I don't talk much but I like creeping on conversations. If you want me to talk I can generally be encouraged to pontificate on my Very Important Opinions about science fiction and nail polish. If, having made me talk, you realise you want me to shut up, I can generally be distracted by gifs of fractals or sharks. My username is a multilayered joke which only I am likely to get and/or find funny.
One layer of the joke is that it looks like a Homestuck reference but is actually a reference to a completely different webcomic with way too many timetravel shenanigans where one of the major villains is the spades-themed leader of a quartet themed after card suites!
@unknownanonymous Favourite is... kind of a tricky concept given that most of the sci-fi I read turns out to be another iteration of "Let me tell you all the ways sci-fi has failed me as a genre". Hm, I really like what I've read of Banks so far; the Culture is basically what I want out of the future. I've read a couple of Reynolds' books and have not yet been hideously disappointed, so I have high hopes there. Does China Mieville count as sci-fi? (Maybe sometimes?) Because China Mieville is one of my forever favourites. And I like PTerry's sci-fi books. And Asimov. In the perennial Trek/Wars debate, I prefer Star Trek because it is a story about flying new places and experiencing new things and helping people along the way, whereas Star Wars is a story about how the chosen one will distoy us all the bad guys. Also it took me about twenty years before I could finally watch Star Wars without falling asleep halfway through, and that kind of sours a dude's experience. Edit: Oh, Pacific Rim! I completely forgot that PacRim counts as sci-fi. It is dreadful in so many ways but also amazing in equally as many ways and I love it a whole bunch. (I am always the first to admit that a lot of things I like are absolutely shit.) I'm generally well-disposed towards most old sci-fi but like 90% of that is childhood nostalgia.
I've read Banks and I think I liked it. Also, Reynolds and Asimov. I've watched both Trek and Wars and I think I'm more of a Trekkie. I haven't watched Pacific Rim or read China Meiville, though.
I really recommend Mieville, but go carefully with his stuff if you're bothered by rape themes or body horror. His YA books are pretty safe but the stuff marketed to adults is really dark.
