Syfy sent out a press release talking about it’s new lineup of shows. A couple that might be interesting.
By the production company that makes the Stargate shows:
BALL & CHAIN
After months of emotional tumult, Edgar and Mallory call their relationship quits. As they say their final goodbyes, the ex-lovers are nearly hit by a meteorite that, it turns out, imbues them with extraordinary powers. Unfortunately, the powers only work when they are in close proximity to each other. Though the last thing they want to do is stay together, they’ll need to try if they hope to overcome the newly arrived other-worldly forces that threaten to destroy them and anyone else who gets in the way.
And by the team that wrote Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
ORION
National Treasure meets Firefly in this swashbuckling space opera about an adventurous female relic hunter and her team as they hunt down — and sometimes steal — valuable and powerful objects to sell on the black market, all while staying one step ahead of the bounty hunters hot on their heels.
by Charles Stross is a fun combination of a strong AI and a espionage novel. Stross takes us years into the future where an advanced being has change the path of humanity and set down rules that humanity can not break. The book deals with the impact of technology on civilizations that try to suppress technology. 
was Michael Crichton’s first blockbuster novel. It made his reputation and marked him as the master of scientific theory novels. The basic formula of Michael Crichton novels is to start with a scientific theory, mix it with additional made up scientific theories and throw them together into a novel that lets him explore the reality of the theories. The Andromeda Strain does a wonderful job of pushing a real-life scenario into the scientific theory mix.
is by no means a great movie. It’s more like a great mess. The beginning is slow and choppy. The ending…well there is about 3 or 4 endings in the movie. There are subplots that are picked up and dropped for no reason (especially the whole homeless bit). But, for about an hour in the movie (from when Jack meets Parry on top of the car to when Parry goes to the hospital) where it is damn near a perfect movie. In that section, the movie is flawless. There is an amazing dance scene in Grand Central Station and quiet, intimate, powerful scenes with a single character. And in that hour movie magic happens. But what happens with the rest of the movie?
by Ray Bradbury is a classic science fiction novel, but it’s really more like a set of vignettes covering almost 30 years of Earth astronauts going to and living on Mars. The book was written in the late 1940s before being collected as a novel in the early 1950s. My first introduction to The Martian Chronicles was the 
in 1980 (starring Rock Hudson) and from there I went to the find the books. It was my first introduction to Ray Bradbury and what an introduction it was.
by John Scalzi is Scalzi’s first non 
universe book. The setting and characters are different, but you can still tell it’s a Scalzi book by the writing and the tone. It’s a fun science fiction, political thriller that starts off with a fart and ends with a sheep.
is my favorire Alastair Reynolds book. It combines a noirish mystery with a science fiction mystery and uses technology to link them together. In my 
by Isaac Asimov is one of the earliest science fiction ongoing story lines. Previous authors would have the same set of characters in the same universe with self-contained stories. Foundation kept the universe the same and changed the characters while furthering the same extended storyline. Asimov has thought out a 1000 year storyline and set these stories against that backdrop. The result is a classic in science fiction.