Your favorite "Secondary Creations"?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Also: Jack Chalker's Four Lords of the Diamond series.

 

[Venardhi]

I can repeat a lot of the ones included here, but I notice the "Thousand Worlds" setting of George R R Martin's early sci-fi work to be notably absent. Unfortunate that he is unlikely to revisit it.

 

[lurok]

Dune

 

[Admiral2]

I don't read fantasy.

Sci-fi:

The Terran Federation: In my opinion, Gene Roddenberry's Federation should have borrowed more heavily from Heinlein's.

I haven't read all of Heinlein's books yet, which one is this from?

It's actually from a couple of his books. The most famous is Starship Troopers, but it was also mentioned in Podkayne of Mars.

 

[js]

My top three would have to be:

The Twilight Zone
The Star Trek universe
Lewis Carroll's Wonderland


but honorable mention to so many others mentioned here: the Whoniverse, Middle-Earth, the Buffyverse, B5, Discworld, Farscape, HP, Marvel's cinematic universe


and a few more not yet mentioned: Narnia, Prydain, Pern, the Anita Blake 'verse, Bradbury's Mars, Lovecraft's Old Ones, Stephen King's various haunted towns in Maine, the Thursday Next 'verse, Brust's Dragaera, Edward Eager's magic world, Disney's fairy tales, Barrie's Neverland, Baum's Oz, and so many more I'm forgetting...

 

[Klaus]

You want to live in the Twilight Zone?!?!? Noooo thank you... the chances of being in a horrific situation are MUCH too great.

 

[js]

You want to live in the Twilight Zone?!?!? Noooo thank you... the chances of being in a horrific situation are MUCH too great.

LOL People forget there are good parts of the Twilight Zone too. There are a few happy endings.

But whatever it is, at least it would be well-written.

 

[Starbreaker]

SF Books:
1. Dune - just an amazingly inventive world with fascinating groups, factions, settings, politics.
2. Xeelee - Stephen Baxter has invented some really cool aliens and situations. Everything in civilization is geared towards war with the mysterious Xeelee.
3. Academy - Jack McDevitt's universe is all about exploration and finding advanced civilazations (dead or alive). Fun stuff.

Fantasy Books:
1. Harry Potter
2. Lord of the Rings
and I really haven't read any other fantasy

 

[Klaus]

You want to live in the Twilight Zone?!?!? Noooo thank you... the chances of being in a horrific situation are MUCH too great.

LOL People forget there are good parts of the Twilight Zone too. There are a few happy endings.

But whatever it is, at least it would be well-written.

With my luck, I'd end up in an Earl Hamner episode....

 

[Nerys Myk]

SF

1. UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS-Star Trek
2. THE FIVE GALAXIES-Uplift Universe by Brin
3. THE PADISHAH EMPIRE- Dune by Herbert

Fantasy

1. MIDDLE EARTH-Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
2. WESTEROS-Song of Fire and Ice by Martin
3. ALL-WORLD-Dark Tower by King

 

[Admiral2]

You want to live in the Twilight Zone?!?!? Noooo thank you... the chances of being in a horrific situation are MUCH too great.

LOL People forget there are good parts of the Twilight Zone too. There are a few happy endings.

But whatever it is, at least it would be well-written.

With my luck, I'd end up in an Earl Hamner episode....

Personally, I'd want to replace Charles Bronsan in "Two" and be the last man on Earth with Elizabeth Montgomery.

 

[Klaus]

Well I'd go for THAT one, of course!!

According to the TZ Companion, it was a lot of work making her look less-than-gorgeous for the post-war situation lol.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ditto on Star Trek.

No love for Star Wars? The Clone Wars is filling in the blanks pretty well, creating a coherent political/metaphysical universe on screen at long last.

 

[Greg Cox]

Newhon - Fritz Leiber Where adventure lives. Lankhmar feels real with it's myriad and mazy streets, it's Thieves Guild (a fantasy standard that had it's start in these stories), and it's gloomy night fogs. Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser would be the funnest fantasy characters to hang around with. Drinking, womanizing, petty thieving, and adventuring when broke or bored.

Good one.

On the movie front, I have to add the original PLANET OF THE APES.

 

[Admiral2]

Ditto on Star Trek.

No love for Star Wars?

Um, did you not read my first post on the very first page?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Nah, I just skim threads like this - I saw plenty of Star Trek references, but not as much as I expected for Star Wars.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Star Trek
Star Wars
Middle Earth
DC Universe
Marvel Universe

 

[js]

You want to live in the Twilight Zone?!?!? Noooo thank you... the chances of being in a horrific situation are MUCH too great.

LOL People forget there are good parts of the Twilight Zone too. There are a few happy endings.

But whatever it is, at least it would be well-written.

With my luck, I'd end up in an Earl Hamner episode....

Well, shucks, what in tarnation is wrong with that?

I think I'd opt for one written by Rod himself though - the man had a strong sense of justice and a need to provide hope, even in the sad moments...