Science Fiction Aficionados discussion

Please feel free to create threads within this folder to discuss your favorite horrific science fiction.

Thanks, Jason!

Thank you for suggesting it! :)

So name me some horror scifi, as it's something I've never read before.

okay, i would love to!

The Mind Parasites
The Space Vampires (a terrible but fun movie called Lifeforce is based on this novel)
The Edge of Running Water
Crescent (ugh, not a fan)

I suppose some of George R. R. Martin's stories, such as Nightflyers and Sandkings, would qualify.

Also Prototype by Brian Hodge.

I've noticed that Robert Charles Wilson usually has some horror in his novels. Try Bios or Darwinia.

The horror in these books is small and usually near the end. But it is there.

Thought of some more:

Ring series
Parasite Eve
Threshold

The Color Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft is an awesome mixture of sci fi and horror.

I have heard that is supposed to be a thriller Jason....

Lovecraft! Of course!

"In the Walls of Eryx" is probably his most obvious SF (that I've read, anyway.)

so true! can't believe i didn't think of him, it is so obvious. alien creatures from outer space and beyond space, often in conflict with scientists and explorers, and often with complicated histories and elaborate civilizations. lovecraft goes way beyond the horror template of 'mysterious evil threatening good people' - he spends a lot of time trying to detail actual alien cultures in stories like At the Mountains of Madness and The Mound. probably the first major scifi horror author. although not all of his stories would qualify as scifi horror i suppose, except for the more elaborate ones.

Death Troopers by joe Schreiber--- Star Wars and zombies!!

I want to read that. They have it on Audible, and I'm so tempted!

Jason wrote: "I want to read that. They have it on Audible, and I'm so tempted!"

it was a fun quick read. i enjoyed it!

I've heard nothing but bad about Death Troopers, and so have avoided it completely.

Is it cheesy?

Ala wrote: "I've heard nothing but bad about Death Troopers, and so have avoided it completely.

Is it cheesy?"

mmm a little bit but in a good way....

Damnit.... I just know if I read it, I'm going to get sucked back into the EU and never leave again.

LOL @ Ala

I broke out after the last story arc finished(Legacy) and before the next one started(Fate of the Jedi).

I don't want to go back...


it hurts

i know i can't help but be tempted when i go by the SW section at Borders

There is a good anthology that covers horror/scifi called BETWEEN TIME AND TERROR. It's worth looking for in the used bookstores. Authors include Heinlein, Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Dan Simmons, Clive Barker, Arthur C. Clarke and Phillip K. Dick.

George R.R. Martin's "Fevre Dream" may fit here. Though it is more horror than SF.

If vampires imply horror, then David Weber's latest trilogy, starting with the recently pulbished "Out of the Dark" may fit this category very well.

[SPOILER ALERT BELOW!]

Alien invasion vs. vampires. Quite good. Though the vampires take our side against the aliens. More to come in the next two books.

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, and also, I would have to say I loved Crescent, and would recommend it as it is a free audiobook on itunes.

honestly, i hated that one. so much! couldn't finish it. but then i am only one opinion, and a snooty one at that.

I LOVE Lovecraft!!

For indies, JC Eggleton's Brookhaven and Richard Long's The Book of Paul both fit this category. I adore those two books.

I have a horror antho of my own, but the sci fi novel in it is a dystopian cyberpunk piece, to invoke sub genres.

I find there are more horror games than books. Very keen on recommendations!The Loved, The Lost, The Dreaming

i can't weigh in on quality because i haven't read any of them, but here are some more suggestions:

Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
The Hope by James Lovegrove
the Monstrocity series by Jeffrey Thomas

and of course the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds, if it hasn't been mentioned already.

:D Added all the hyperlinked ones to my 'to read' list. Whee!

Thanks, mark!

Infected by Scott Sigler.

mark wrote: "i can't weigh in on quality because i haven't read any of them, but here are some more suggestions:

Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
The Hope by James Lovegrove"

The Hope is great!

Pretty much, anything written by Clark Ashton Smith. These short story anthologies are a great introduction:

Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others

Lost Worlds: Volume 2: Atlantis, Hyperborea, Xiccarph and Others

he's one of my favorites!

I've had those on my wishlist forever!

So I really want to read a sci-fi horror, but to be honest all the books that I've read classified as sci-fi horror were not really scary. The fact that someone is running for their life or there are zombies IMO is not what makes a book horror.
I've read blindsight and found it funny, not scary. I've read hull zero three and found it interesting and imaginative but in no case horror or even a little bit scary. I don't think "I am legend" is horror as well. To me it simply seems that authors can't successfully merge the two genres together.
Oh and I've read the first two books in "The Vang" series and while those were closer still not scary.

It feels like the search for the Holy Grail.

This is not a category I've ever had any interest in pursuing, so I don't have much to compare it to, but I found The Sparrow to have a strong horrific element to it.

Ellie, I love horror but honestly it is the rare horror novel that genuinely scares me. what I tend to like about horror novels are their challenging themes and the often creepy or dread-filled atmosphere that is being built. for me, "horror" is more about those two things (theme & atmosphere) than it is about being scared.

hard for me to even recall a list of horror novels that genuinely scared me. the only thing that comes to mind is Dead Sea (and it isn't science fiction horror).

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