Oooooh. This is awesome. But hard; my favourite medium for science fiction is actually the short story format, and I've read too many and loved too many to name them all. But, okay, I'd nominate:
Book:
1) The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. This was so formative for me, I read it and read it and read it. 2) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (the series for preference, but if I was going to pick any of the series I'd actually pick #2, The Tombs of Atuan) 3) I love love love William Gibson. But Neuromancer gets so much love, and I think I like Virtual Light much better. It has an awesome lady character, interesting religion stuff, and a cute romance. So I nominate that one. 4) The Gernsback Continuum, William Gibson. This one's a short story, and I couldn't bear not to nominate it becuase it's so brilliant. It taught me so much about the future, and what it means, and the way it changes, and the way our conception of what the future will look like shapes the space in which we live. 5) The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman - lesbian polar bear love
TV
6) Blakes 7! 7) The X-Files
Fic
8) DADT, Damyata, Dayadhvam, by Trinityofone I think the thing is, I've enjoyed a ton of fic that falls under this category, but usually it's scifi/fantasy-ness isn't the primary thing I've been seeking out in it or enjoying in it? So I don't know. I think I have fic filed in a different category in my brain and I'd have to have a different list for it. But there are a few, like this one, that I think of as great sci-fi or fantasy.
Movie 9 - Star Wars, the original trilogy. I can't not put this in, because it was SO formative for me. 10 - Blade Runner. Again, totally formative. Oh man, I love that movie.
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Book:
1) The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. This was so formative for me, I read it and read it and read it.
2) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (the series for preference, but if I was going to pick any of the series I'd actually pick #2, The Tombs of Atuan)
3) I love love love William Gibson. But Neuromancer gets so much love, and I think I like Virtual Light much better. It has an awesome lady character, interesting religion stuff, and a cute romance. So I nominate that one.
4) The Gernsback Continuum, William Gibson. This one's a short story, and I couldn't bear not to nominate it becuase it's so brilliant. It taught me so much about the future, and what it means, and the way it changes, and the way our conception of what the future will look like shapes the space in which we live.
5) The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman - lesbian polar bear love
TV
6) Blakes 7!
7) The X-Files
Fic
8) DADT, Damyata, Dayadhvam, by Trinityofone
I think the thing is, I've enjoyed a ton of fic that falls under this category, but usually it's scifi/fantasy-ness isn't the primary thing I've been seeking out in it or enjoying in it? So I don't know. I think I have fic filed in a different category in my brain and I'd have to have a different list for it. But there are a few, like this one, that I think of as great sci-fi or fantasy.
Movie
9 - Star Wars, the original trilogy. I can't not put this in, because it was SO formative for me.
10 - Blade Runner. Again, totally formative. Oh man, I love that movie.