Take out your light sabers ’cause it’s that time of the year again. Last year, the month long event was hosted by Rinn and this year it’s being co-hosted by her and Oh, the Books!
Like last year, I wouldn’t be posting as much as I’ve yet to write the posts despite having written all my ideas down. I’m not a hardcore sci-fi reader or sci-fi anything, to be honest. Yet I do enjoy the genre thoroughly and some of my favorite movies are sci-fi like Inception, Avatar, The Adjustment Bureau, and Megamind. When it comes to books, I only recently read Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One before which I’ve only read YA sci-fi and Dan Brown books. I guess I got too distracted by YA fantasy to read much of anything? Oops. But sci-fi fantasy counts so it’s all good.
My plans for celebration of sci-fi aren’t as ambitious as they were last year because I always fail. Darn it.
Sci-Fi on a Screen
For all my love for the genre, there are some essential sci-fi movies I haven’t yet watched but really want to. I’m planning to watch all the X-Men movies and whoa, there are a lot of them (meaning that I might not watch all seven of them).
X-Men
X2
X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: First Class
The Wolverine
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past
And oh, I’d be continuing watching Doctor Who.
Sci-Fi in Graphics
It’s my goal this year to read at least one manga and I think I’ll go for sci-fi fantasy graphic novels. I was a huge Archie Comics reader and then I just drifted into the world of books without any illustrations.
The Wicked + The Divine Volume 1 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie – This I really want to read because it’s totally calling to me.
Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples – Everyone raves about this graphic novel series and now I’m curious.
Sci-Fi to Read
There are some YA titles that I’ve been saving up to read in November which is basically Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles. I’d be rereading Cinder because I really want to and Fairest releases in January so it also helps with that.
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (reread)
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Cress by Marissa Meyer
Sci-Fi to Post
My plans are still under wraps so stay tuned!
Do you like sci-fi? Are you taking part in Sci-Fi November? What are some of your favorite sci-fi reads?
Your plans sound lovely. I was really into X-Men when the first movie came out, but I barely saw any of the sequal/spin-off films. Maybe November will be the perfect month to watch at least a few of them! I love Marissa Meyer, and The Wicked + The Divine sounds very interesting. Good luck this month, and enjoy the science fiction goodness!
I'm also thinking about re-reading the Lunar Chronicles in anticipation for Fairest (and the books are simply amazing too)
The Lunar Chronicles is an excellent choice if you can only pick a few books! I love that series so much, and I think my favorite changes every time I read the books. I think if you had to pick only a few X-Men movies, I'd recommend First Class and Days of Future Past 🙂
I love the Lunar Chronicles! Great choice 🙂
lovely plans! The X-Men movies can be a little rocky ( especially the third, ug!) but I adore them. Saga is one of my favorites too! if you have time pick up the Days of Future Past trade from your library before watching the latest film. its one of my favorite X stories
What a great reason to watch the X-men movies 🙂 I can't believe there's actually 7 of them, but I guess there really are.
Hooray for Scifi November! I'm not taking part but I must read Cinder soon! I hope you enjoy all those awesome scifi movie/graphic novel/books, Sana. 🙂 Have a great month!
SCI-FI FTWWWWW. It's one of my faveeeee everrrrr because of Firefly, which everybody should watch. (It's fucking amazinnnnnnngggg.)
OH MY GOD. SANA. YES. SAGA. YOU NEED TO READ SAGA. IT'S FUCKING AMAZING, AND OASKSKADHAISDSDSADA, I'M PLANNING TO DO ONE OF THOSE "REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD READ SAGA" BECAUSE HOLY SHIT, IT'S FUCKING AMAZING. (YES, I'M REPEATING WHAT I ALREADY SAID, BUT I'M NOT JOKING. I LOVE IT SO FUCKING MUCH.) Also, I need more sci-fi space comics, so if you hear of any awesome ones, send it my way! ;D
Yay welcome back to SFM 😀
I absolutely LOVE X-Men! If you only end up watching a couple, definitely go for the two newest ones, First Class and Days of Future Past. So, sooo good. Wolverine: Origins isn't great, and Last Stand is the worst. Of the originals, 2 gets the most praise 🙂