{"id":143,"date":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/science-fiction-page\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","slug":"science-fiction-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hippie-havens\/science-fiction-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=center>\n<strong>Science Fiction<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=left>\nI regard science fiction as the entry drug into the<br \/>\npsychedelic world. If by nine, ten, eleven or twelve, you&#8217;re reading science<br \/>\nfiction, then you&#8217;re probably lost to normality.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=http:\/\/deoxy.org\/mckenna.htm>Terence<br \/>\nMcKenna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hippy generation was the first<br \/>\nto grow up aware of the awesome power unleashed upon this planet by our<br \/>\nscientists and politicians.  We learned the wonders of science had<br \/>\na downside too.  So science fiction became our guide to the endless<br \/>\npossible scenarios that we could create for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>From mutant monsters to alien warnings<br \/>\nto intergalactic expeditions to robotic civilizations, sci-fi explores<br \/>\nwhat could be, how we would handle it and what that reveals about us.<br \/>\nIt answers the most intriguing question; What if?  Hippies raised<br \/>\nwith the Star Trek meme know that there is a better future out there, we<br \/>\njust have to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Science Fiction Books<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Aldous Huxley<\/strong> &#8211; Author, mystic, visionary.<br \/>\nWrote some fine books, including Brave New World.  On his deathbed<br \/>\njust before dying, he requested and received a final dose of LSD.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong><a href=http:\/\/somaweb.org\/>Soma<br \/>\nWeb<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Aldous Huxley web site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Ray Bradbury<\/strong> &#8211; Famous Author of the<br \/>\nMartian<br \/>\nChronicles<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>George Orwell<\/strong> &#8211; Bleak outlook motivated<br \/>\nAnimal<br \/>\nFarm and 1984.<br \/>\nGreat social critic.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Phillip K. Dick<\/strong> &#8211; Author of Do<br \/>\nAndroids Dream of Electric Sheep<\/em> &#8211;<br \/>\nmade into Blade Runner.<br \/>\nInfluenced many a cyberpunk. <strong><a href=http:\/\/www.philipkdickfans.com\/>Philip K. Dick Website<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Neal Stephenson<\/strong><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong><a href=http:\/\/www.nealstephenson.com\/>Neal Stephenson Website<br \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n<strong>William Gibson &#8211; leader of the cyberpunk<br \/>\nmovement, coined the term cyberspace.<\/strong><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong><a href=http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/>William<br \/>\nGibson Homepage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Arthur C. Clarke<\/strong><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.arthurcclarke.net\/><strong>Arthur<br \/>\nC. Clarke Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Issac Asimov<\/strong><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong><a href=http:\/\/www.asimovonline.com\/asimov_home_page.html><\/strong><\/a><a>Issac<br \/>\nAsimov Home Page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n<strong><a href=http:\/\/frank.mtsu.edu\/%7Ephil\/Disc\/sci2.html>Science<br \/>\nFiction Newsgroups<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Science Fiction Movies<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\n Many<br \/>\nscience fiction movies echo hippie themes, and perhaps influenced the movement.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Invaders from Mars<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; The original was frightening in the 50&#8217;s.  Imagine: Your parents<br \/>\nare under alien control and they don&#8217;t love you anymore and you&#8217;re next!<br \/>\nWas this a premonition of the alienation our generation was soon to feel?<br \/>\nReal creepy scenes underground with aliens.  The remake sucks.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Michael Rennie as the alien ambassador, Patricia Neal as the woman who<br \/>\nutters the fateful words Gort, Klaatu Barada Nicto, and saves the earth.<br \/>\nAliens want us to stop our nuclear weapons programs (sound familiar?),<br \/>\nand threaten our annihilation if we don&#8217;t.  Excellent film, well acted,<br \/>\ngood screenplay, and Gort is scary.  Christ analogy with Rennie as<br \/>\nJesus and Gort, as &#8230; you guessed it an avenging God.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Forbidden Planet<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; This fabulous telling of the Tempest story starring Leslie Nielsen and<br \/>\nWalter Pidgeon holds up well today.  The story of a great civilization<br \/>\nundermined by it&#8217;s animal desires.  Great effects, futuristic sets<br \/>\nand a cool robot make this a classic.  O.K., I&#8217;m ready for that brain<br \/>\nboost now!<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>2001: <em>A Space Odyssey<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; You must be a hippie if you saw this more than once with appropriate<br \/>\nenhancement.  Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik combined to make<br \/>\na stunning portrait of man in space.  Can we trust a machine capable<br \/>\nof thought?   Good effects for its day.  It still plays<br \/>\nwell for the 59th time.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Silent Running<\/strong> &#8211;<br \/>\nStarring Bruce Dern as the caretaker of the only remaining forests in domes<br \/>\non a spacecraft.  Given orders to destroy the domes, he makes the<br \/>\nultimate sacrifice.  Ecologically timely for 1971.  Music by<br \/>\nJoan Baez.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Star Trek Series<\/strong> &#8211; The movies like the TV shows present a set of values to which every good<br \/>\nhippie can aspire.  themes include peace, tolerance, non-violence<br \/>\n(only use those photon torpedos when you have to!), interracial and interspecies<br \/>\ncooperation, responsibility for all life and even economic equality.<br \/>\nThey focus on the good uses for science.  Travel to brave new worlds,<br \/>\nmeet other weird life forms, and if they don&#8217;t kill you or eat you, you<br \/>\ncan befriend them.   But remember the prime directive!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Science Fiction TV Shows<\/strong><br \/>\nRod Serling&#8217;s screenplays (and others) run the gamut from amusing aliens<br \/>\nto terrifying children to fascism.  Well written and acted these stories<br \/>\ninfluenced young minds to ponder situations that could only exist in that<br \/>\nplace slightly removed from reality &#8211; the Twilight Zone.  With the<br \/>\nassistance of substances organic and inorganic, hippies were soon to explore<br \/>\nsuch realms far removed from the everyday.  Lots of social commentary.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><em>Outer Limits <\/em><\/strong> &#8211;<br \/>\nA bit more out there than the Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits focused less<br \/>\non social commentary, with more emphasis on cheap special effects and the<br \/>\ntruly bizarre.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><em><a href=http:\/\/www.startrek.com>Star<br \/>\nTrek<\/a> <\/strong> &#8211; The TV series which spawned<br \/>\na cult.  Are trekkies hippies?  The shows evolved from the fisticuffs<br \/>\nof Captain Kirk to the tolerant diplomatic ways of Captain Piccard.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><em>X-Files<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Another cult series.  Very suspenseful and weird.  The theme<br \/>\nof government conspiracies and cover-ups is standard hippie fare.<br \/>\nBizarre creatures and aliens add interest.  Mulder&#8217;s willingness to<br \/>\nput his life on the line in his quest for truth is inspiring.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/babylon5.warnerbros.com\/cmp\/><img border=0 src=b5slogo.gif><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=http:\/\/babylon5.warnerbros.com\/>Babylon<br \/>\n5<\/a><\/strong>&#8211; This show also has a<br \/>\ncult following.  The ongoing intricate plot is very absorbing.<br \/>\nStrong alien characters make the show, along with excellent special effects.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=http:\/\/www.mst3k.com\/>MST3K<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Mystery Science Theater 3000.  An off-the-wall spoof of old scifi<br \/>\nand horror movies.  Mike and his android friends provide obscure commentary<br \/>\nthat will have you laughing your ass off.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/><img border=0 src=sfclogo.gif><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/>The<br \/>\nSci-Fi Channel<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; In addition to showing some of the best Sci-Fi movies<br \/>\nand TV series, the Sci-Fi Channel now has several new series worth checking<br \/>\nout.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=0>\n<\/table>\n<p>Posted by: skip<br \/>\nViews: 14562<br \/>\nTopic:4\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Fiction I regard science fiction as the entry drug into the psychedelic world. If by nine, ten, eleven or twelve, you&#8217;re reading science fiction, then you&#8217;re probably lost to normality. &#8211;Terence McKenna The hippy generation was the first to grow up aware of the awesome power unleashed upon this planet by our scientists and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hippie-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}