I didn’t see the Foundation series mentioned.

The Thing is a p great movie, get it and see it. Smartest horror movie I’ve seen.

Of COURSE get Alien and Aliens (and stop there). Starship Troopers. Robocop. Twelve Monkeys. I’m a HUGE fan of that whole era of decadent ‘80s science fiction. Love the king of trash directors, Paul Verhoven.

Signing Dan Simmons, he’s p awesome, read Ilium and Olympos, smart as hell and funny, also signing Frank Herbert (dune).

That’ll do for now, can’t think of too many who haven’t been mentioned. Oh, wait, who’s the writer who wrote Half Life? He’s probably p good for scifi. Marc Laidlaw, that’s him.

Oh, and here’s one you can watch right now, the strange, wonderful, hilarious Russian Sci-fi masterwork Kin Dza Dza: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2251461878127683608