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Surprised Simon Green's Deathstalker books are not on the list.
Everything from Foundation to Cowboy Bebop. A wonderful list. Any specific names you can think of that you had to cut but don't mind mentioning here James?
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Great list - happy to see "The Black Hole" get a nod, as well as my all-time favorite, Doc Smith. I recommend checking out Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels, as I think those capture a certain flavor that Starfinder looks to capture.
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I love to see Trigun there
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Everything from Foundation to Cowboy Bebop. A wonderful list. Any specific names you can think of that you had to cut but don't mind mentioning here James?
Oh jeez... I can't remember exactly who got cut, but I know there are folks that I woke up days after it went to print going "OH $@%& WE FORGOT THEM!" So I would like to officially tender my apologies to Jason Hough, as a representative of all the wonderful creators unintentionally left off the list. :P
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No Harry Harrison :( No Stainless Steel Rat love
No Alien Legion Comic
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Love those books. But I suppose you have to like the black, dry humor of them.Surprised Simon Green's Deathstalker books are not on the list.
They had some great ideas in them.
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I'm surprised Outlaw Star isn't on the list. Some of the sources were rather obvious others not so much.
This list does confirm that Starfinder is attempting to encapsulate all of pop sci-fy, for good or ill.
Well, guess I have a new reading list.
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I'm surprised Outlaw Star isn't on the list. Some of the sources were rather obvious others not so much.
This list does confirm that Starfinder is attempting to encapsulate all of pop sci-fy, for good or ill.
After Firefly, Outlaw Star will always be the iconic "party scifi" adventure series for me.
Kind of disappointed to see Legend of the Galactic Heroes not listed, but it might be a bit too realistic for a Scifi, not to mention hard to find. There is a remake of it this Fall though!
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I'm listening to the audiobook version of Peter F. Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" Trilogy, right now. Owen suggested Hamilton, but I felt I needed to go back to some of the first books in the setting before I could understand what was happening in other parts of the Commonwealth series. I'm really glad I did. There's some definite "science fantasy" stuff going on in that trilogy.
Everything sci-fi I love: The Game.
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Great list - happy to see "The Black Hole" get a nod
Agreed. The Black Hole is still my go-to movie for moody gothic sci-fi. And Maximillian, one of the scariest robots to ever come out of film.
Lots of things that I love about sci-fi, a few that I have not heard about, and there were a few omissions. Overall a good list of inspirations.
Some love to Marc Miller's Traveller game, and a good amount of popular series. The gamut from Trigun to Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys. Would have loved to see Gundam or Exo-Squad, but both of those were less pulpy than what Starfinder seems to be aiming for.
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Ex Machina. You guys. I love you. So much.
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The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers...
NICE.
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Two which didn't make the cut were by Robert Lynn Aspirin, Cold Cash War and the Phule's Company series, and are well worn reading. Cold Cash is a bit darker, but you can easily see an adventuring company in the vein of Willard Phule's Omega Company / Hogan's Heroes / McHale's Navy vibe. :)
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A moment of silence for Farscape being removed from Netflix...
Also f#$@ yeah!
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+1 the Alien Legion omission.
No Buckaroo Banzai?! No watermelon for you!
Nothing by Masamune Shirow?! That means no Deunan Knute, no Briareos, no landmates, no Leona, no Bonaparte, no Annapuma and Unipuma, no Tachikomas, no Major Kusanagi...
No, there never was a live-action GitS. Nope, never happened. LalalalalaIcan'thearyou...
NO MOEBIUS (aka Jean Giraud)!!!!!!
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Yeah, there's a lot of awesome stuff not on this list. Even in a really small font we couldn't get all the interesting sci-fi and science-fantasy out there onto two pages.
These are things that particularly moved someone on staff, and that survived the culling when we ran out of room. And it can be amazing, sometimes, what strikes someone as the MOST formative books, games, comics, and movies in their life. And which ones specifically inspired us when creating a game about a small band of heroes fighting a universe of mixed technology and magic.
That said, I am excited to see fans talking about the things that moved them that we didn't include. Those suggestions, and the conversations they start, are to me the greatest legacy of all these inspirational media appendices.
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You had me at Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys.
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Steven Universe!
Does that mean we can expect giant hand-shaped spaceships?
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Let me add a couple of others.
- Buck Rogers (Philip Francis Nowlan)
- Flash Gordon (Alex Raymond)
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*Sees Barsoom series on list*
Ah, I see that you are a man/woman of culture.
...maybe now I'll know more than two other people who have actually read A Princess of Mars.
That said, I am excited to see fans talking about the things that moved them that we didn't include. Those suggestions, and the conversations they start, are to me the greatest legacy of all these inspirational media appendices.
Hear, hear! Even in a world where "all plots have been created," discussion of inspirations leads to both (a) great lesser-known fiction being discovered by others, and (b) the birth of someone's next great campaign!
Childhood's End is one of my all-time favorite books, super happy to see it listed here. Also really interested in what its inclusion implies...
I'm interested to know how the Divergent series of books influenced Starfinder. Definitely not what I would have expected, though it is sci-fi and in a future setting so I maybe my surprise is misplaced.
Is it sad that I've seen and read just about everything on this list.
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That said, I am excited to see fans talking about the things that moved them that we didn't include. Those suggestions, and the conversations they start, are to me the greatest legacy of all these inspirational media appendices.
Put me down for Almost Human, yet another good TV show Fox cancelled before its time.
Put me down for Almost Human, yet another good TV show Fox cancelled before its time.
Yeah, I liked that one a lot - so sad they really didn't get a chance to develop that one fully, too many unanswered questions about the world I would have loved to see fleshed out.
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Glad to see Babylon 5 in there. ^_^
BTW Kitsune Warlock, I just started watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It's old fashioned anime goodness that I grew up watching. ;)
A bit sad that I don't see Dominion Tank Police, Ghost in the Shell, and a few others but I'm sure Paizo tried to fit as much in there as they could.
Wasn't there one anime OVA about a battleship that used sails to capture starlight so it could move at interstellar speeds? Wasn't there also another anime where a human male finds himself in possession of a space ranger gauntlet and goes on an adventure with a woman and a sentient pterodactyl alien (who also has a similar gauntlet)?
I wish I could remember the names of those animes. :(
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I am impressed that anyone at Paizo is old enough to remember Blake's 7.
The Thing? Does that mean we might see it started up? Nothing would make me happier.