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Originally Posted by xibalban
I find the genre ultra fantastical and in an all different realm of reality. That goes by saying, however, that I love sci-fi that is portrayed in movies like Inception, The Butterfly Effect and the Matrix ("Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?" - Morpheus). More philosophical than fiction, ain't it?
It's just that I don't like much of the Star Wars or Transformers kind of stuff. I hope you get what I mean.
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Ah. You don't like science fantasy, you want hard sci-fi. Star Wars and Transformers aren't representative of all extra-planetary sci-fi by a long shot.
There's a lot of hard extraplanetary sci-fi that sticks with realistic laws of physics (if not quite the laws we know). Looking at recommendations for hard science fiction might be a good place to start.
Andre Norton's Time Traders series is set in fairly realistic modern times, where people have found alien technology that they don't quite understand and are trying to investigate. There's a lot of parts where inexplicable things happen, but it's mostly because they were trying to do things without understanding their tools. I thought it was a good take on what might happen if people found alien technology, but how realistic you'll find it might vary. It was definitely more realistic than Star Wars.