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A collection of nine novellas and novelettes by Charles Stross that explore the function and nature of human society before and after the technological singularity. The stories progress in a linear fashion and follow 3 generations of the Macx family through the 21st century. The first 3 stories are told from the point of view of the 'venture altrui...

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Although listed here under a single entry, this dual franchise started as two distinct and seperate projects. Ridley Scott's 1979 film 'Alien' was the first film in the Aliens side of the franchise, while 'Predator' was a product of the mid 1980's. While 'What ifs' are a staple of Science Fiction boards, matching up various closely match...

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Alpha Centauri is a computer game very similar to the Civilization series, only it is set in the future, on an alien planet. A multinational human starship crashed on the planet, and 7 distinct factions, with their own leaders and agendas, are formed. This game also has an expansion pack called Alien Crossfire. The game was also the setti...

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The television series Andromeda began its life as a rejected early draft of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this draft, Captain James T. Kirk was to become trapped in the event horizon of a black hole, stuck in time until being rescued centuries later. The premise was that the Federation, having been backstabbed by its Klingon allies, had collap...

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Premise: Babylon 5 tells the story of a human station in neutral territory that acts as a meeting place between races. Before long, its inhabitants find themselves at the center of a dangerous interplanetary struggle between some of the oldest races in the galaxy. The B5 universe is filled with a diverse assortment of predom...

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Written by Ron L. Hubbard, the father of Scientology, this highly controversial book details the struggle of Johny Goodboy Taylor and the remnants of humanity to throw off their Psychlo conquerors and restore man kind's former glory.

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TV series ran for one season in 1979. Spawned Galactica 1980 the following year, also for just one season. The twelve colonies of man have fallen to a huge attack by the machine-based lifeforms known as Cylons. Now, under the command of Commander Adama, the last Battlestar, Galactica, must lead the remnant of humanity to find the legendary...

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A reimagining of Battlestar Galactica (1979). After creating Cylons to do more dangerous and dirty jobs, the human race finds itself embroiled in a war with them. Eventually, peace was declared, and the Cylons disappeared for forty years and set up their own society on distant planets. A spacestation was constructed in neutral territory w...

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The Battletech universe is set primarily in the 31st Century, 300 years after the fall of the Star League - a star-spanning governmental power which kept civilization together. Since the fall of the League, various successor states have fought each other to claim the title of First Lord of the Star League. Much of the high technology...

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A film released by Walt Disney, trying to apparently cash in on the boom after Star Wars. The Black Hole was fairly 'dark' for a Disney film and also involved a lot of matte paintings in the special effects. Commercially the film was a bit of a failure, but it does have somewhat of a following. The cast included a number of known actors ...

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Set in the future, Earth is the centre of a large galactic Federation. The Federation has however become corrupt and controls it's citizens with a mixed of drugs and police state measures. Roj Blake is a freedom fighter who opposes the regime, but before the series begins he is captured, brainwashed and forced to betray his comrades. ...

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A series of books about unite of the Dinochrome brigade. Bolos are massive tanks employed by the Concordiate of Man in its wars with aggressive alien species and the various books focus on different marks of Bolo. Except for the earliest Bolos developed by the US army, all Bolos are armed with one or more hellbore plasma cannon as its main...

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Glen A Larson started production on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century round about the same time as he started on Battlestar Galactica. Buck Rogers, along with Flash Gordon, had been staples of 1930's TV as well as radio serials, with the original TV part being played by Buster Crabbe. For some reason, the characters name was slightl...

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A TV series, Captain Scarlet follows the adventures of the titular hero. He is a member of a near-future organisation, Spectrum, charged with the task of defending Earth from the ethereal Mysterons. Captain Scarlet himself is 'indestructible' due to an unusual chain of events involving the Mysterons. He is aided by Captain Bl...

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Consists of two movies so far (with a possible third one on the way): Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick, both starring Vin Diesel as the main protagonist.

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It is the 21st century and the earth is being invaded. Not by death-ray toting aliens but by their ecology.  It is really a terraforming tale in reverse. An alien race is 'chtorrforming' earth and the human race is valiantly fighting back. Plagues, over voracious lifeforms, selected extermination of terran ecology and giant human eating wo...

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The CoDominium Universe is the unoffical name for the future history that inculdes the Falkenburg's Legions, WorldWar, and The Mote in God's Eye series. Jerry Pournelle created the universe, and coauthored with Larry Niven and S.M. Stirling.  The CoDominium universe is a long Future History that spans over a thousand years. The Falkenb...

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Command and Conquer is a series of Real Time Strategy games. It spans several series. In Command and Conquer, the GDI must defeat the Brotherhood of Nod, an evil group led by Kane. The Red Alert series was originally a prequel, telling of the alternative past in which the Alliance of Democratic Nations must stop the USSR, though by the time of R...

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The story currently consists of three animated seasons, with a fourth in the making, one two-episode OVA and three graphic novels. The series is set against the war between the Abh, genetically engineered humans, and the Four Nations Alliance, an alliance of the non-altered human states. It mainly follows Jinto Lin, heir to an Abh title, and the Ab...

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The Crossgen universe was the setting for a number of comic series featuring very different characters, connected by fate and by the whims of god-like beings which have given many of them the dubious honour of sporting a sigil - a symbol that grants them great power, but draws the attention of other beings of power which challenge them, forcing the...