SciFi I Am Thankful For

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Jeffery Beesler over at his World of the Scribe has a blogfest going on about thankfulness.  Be sure to go to his site and check out all the participating enteries. 

For the SciFi Media take on thankfulness I am going to pick a book and movie that I am thankful for, past, present, and future.  So here it goes. 

Past- For movies I would have to go with Flash Gordon and Starwars.  I am thankful for them for getting me interested in the science fiction medium.  As for books, I am thankful for Dune for igniting that same love in books, or maybe reigniting. 

Present-I am pretty thankful that they are finally making a sequel to Tron.  As books go I am thankful to the creative team on Fables and am quite thankful that I got Windup Girl as a free Download (I need an e-reader so I can read it).

Future- I am very excited to see Sucker Punch and am thankful that Zach Snyder is getting the freedom to do it.  I am also thankful they got Karl Urban to play Judge Dred.  In the book front it is hard to see the future, but I am thankful we have people like Neal Stephenson and John Scalzi carrying that torch. 

So what books and movies are you thankful for?  Or, what are you thankful for in general?  Let me know.