# Oregon Science Fiction and Fantasy Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, tv-shows-scripted, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [January 22, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620 "2023-01-22T20:33:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/1 "2023-01-22T20:33:15Z")
I need to make a list of Oregon science fiction and fantasy authors (both past and current), and science fiction movies and television shows made in and/or based in Oregon. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/2 "2023-01-22T20:44:23Z")
Start with Le Guin. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/3 "2023-01-22T20:52:16Z")
Most definitely! I had the pleasure of conversing with her at a few Orycons and a writer’s conference in Portland. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/4 "2023-01-22T20:56:05Z")
Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma but spent a lot of his years in Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/5 "2023-01-22T21:14:13Z")
Do you count genre comics creators like DeConnick and Fraction? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/6 "2023-01-22T21:22:58Z")
The SyFy Channel series _[Eureka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(American_TV_series))_ was set in the fictional city of Eureka, Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/7 "2023-01-22T22:57:53Z")
You probably already know there’s a [Southeast/Portland sci fi/fantasy writers](https://www.meetup.com/southeast-sci-fi-fantasy-writers/) group. If not, they sound like a fantastic resource. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/8 "2023-01-22T23:15:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The SyFy Channel series _[Eureka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(American_TV_series))_ was set in the **fictiona** l city of Eureka, Oregon Not so fictional. > **[Eureka, Oregon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka,_Oregon)** > > Eureka is a ghost town in Baker County, Oregon, United States, located along Cracker Creek, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Sumpter, and .6 miles (0.97 km) from Bourne. It was originally founded as a mining camp c. 1892, though by 1945 operations had ceased. > > This United States ghost town-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/9 "2023-01-22T23:24:20Z")
Now it _definitely_ goes on the list. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/10 "2023-01-23T02:16:19Z")
Sterling, _A Meeting in Corvallis_ and the other books in that sequence. There may be some stories in the METAtropolis books, which are about Cascadia. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/11 "2023-01-23T04:33:02Z")
John Varley has lived in Portland and Eugene, not sure what he might have produced during those times. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/12 "2023-01-23T08:12:55Z")
I’ll check, but he will probably go on the backup list unless I can’t get a suitable number of names. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/13 "2023-01-23T08:32:25Z")
IMDB search for genre:Sci-Fi, filming location:oregon > **[Sci-Fi, Filming Location Matching "oregon" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) -...](https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?genres=sci-fi&locations=oregon)** > > IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what you're looking for! and here’s a search for fantasy. > **[Fantasy, Filming Location Matching "oregon" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)...](https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?genres=fantasy&locations=oregon)** > > IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what you're looking for! [Coraline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_(film)) was both made and set in Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/14 "2023-01-23T13:32:51Z")
Much appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/15 "2023-01-23T18:04:45Z")
Robert Sheckley was in Oregon for a while. Got divorced and remarried in Portland. Don’t know if he wrote anything while here. > Sheckley left _OMNI_ in 1981 with his fourth wife, writer Jay Rothbell: they subsequently traveled widely in Europe, finally ending up in Portland, Oregon, where they separated. He married Gail Dana of Portland in 1990. Sheckley continued publishing further science fiction and espionage or mystery stories, and collaborated with other writers such as [Roger Zelazny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Zelazny) and [Harry Harrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(writer)). [Robert Sheckley - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sheckley) ---
**Author:** ![gre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@gre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gre)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-science-fiction-and-fantasy-project/978620/16 "2023-01-23T23:44:34Z")
Theodore Sturgeon ended up in Oregon, although I don’t remember the details of his timeline.