Kim Stanley Robinson is probably my favorite living author; I don’t think anyone does setting and worldbuilding better than he does, yet his stories are largely character-driven.
If you are old enought to remember this show, you now make noises when you sit down.
As a ten year old, this was the coolest truck on TV, the trailer would split open from the top and there was a helicopter hidden inside.
I published a short sci-fi novel, but I can’t have a discussion about its contents anywhere on the web because I get immediately hit with an RKV or a photoid for self promotion. What should I do? They don’t even accept free copies of the Novel. Even if don’t even mention the platforms in which it is on sale.
What would you do if you could Save your life like in a videogame, and then Load if something goes wrong? And what if that ability was the only way to save your universe from ending?
my daughter seems to like scifi. We watched enders game, lost in space series (the new version), arrival, I am mother, and she liked them all. Can I get some more suggestions?
Prequel and Sequel to “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, bridging first into a medieval setting in which the magic system works like incremental programming and then into the present day, in which it works like logical programming. Philosophically, the medieval setting is post-modernism and the present day is analytic philosophy, while HPATMOR is enlightenment rationalism. It’s a bit like a digital Alice in wonderland.
I just finished the third book from the series and am really digging it. I especially like the dense plot that doesn't stall, and the light-heartedness of the Bobs.
Hi there, my name is Leo Otoiu and I am a Master's student in Publishing Studies. I am doing a survey on what science fiction readers think about a variety of science fiction covers (including hybrid forms of SF).
If you would like to be a part of my survey, I'd be very grateful. Here is the link:
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Quite tired of sci-fi: today, I see no reason to continue.
But for me, and I hope for you too, it's been a lot of good times since 2019.
All the best to you.
Anyone else read this? It’s an ongoing comic (<200 pages currently) set in the moderately distant future, post (multiple) alien contact, people living in space, genetic mods are common, that sort of thing. The protagonist is an alien centaur that was fostered by humans and has never lived around her own species, and it follows her and her friends’ encounters with a ship’s AI pilot of questionable origin trying to get help repairing itself.
A few years ago, after reading everything in the Hainish Cycle, I decided I'd try and get the whole thing in print. I'm not a serious collector, not necessarily after first editions or otherwise rare editions; but I did want hard covers, and I wanted editions that had dust jackets with all that funky scifi art of the 60's/70's/80's. So far the Hainish books have been good to me in the sense that none of it has been really rare and it's mostly under the 100 usd/eur point as long as you're not looking for signed stuff.
Sunrise on the Reaping was released in March, I just finished reading it and would like to read some other opinions on it. In general to me it felt very much like the first book all over again and didn't give any new insights into Panem, but got lost in references to all the other books.
I know, he's always been one of those conservative old men writing for teenage boys. That's been true since the 80s. But his themes on a number of subjects got just enough more progressive as time went on, and I was able to stomach his writing. I always pegged him as a centerist who moved VERY GRADUALLY leftward over the decades and mostly wasn't interested in making political points in his books. Though he clearly had regressive opinions about women in the military for a long time, especially when that was a big part of the cultural zeitgeist in the 90s, those even eased in recent decades.
I'm normally a bit more of a hard scifi reader with the likes of Bobiverse and Expanse (and Andy Weir/Thaichovsky/IanMBanks/Herbert etc) but I really enjoyed this humerous take on a rogue cyborg.
Ominous strings of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn’s “Oxford” Symphony (No. 92) announce the beginning and end of each episode of Revolutions. The podcast, hosted by author Mike Duncan, walks listeners through history’s most significant turning points, from the French Revolution to the Bolshevik insurrection. Its new season shakes up the formula. This time, Duncan isn’t talking about a terrestrial dustup. He’s chronicling the Martian Revolution.
A year ago, I made this post with notes I had kept on the books I'd read in the prior year. I wasn't sure anyone would be interested, but I had the notes and figured I might as well post them. I was stunned by the positive responses. Well, it's been another year, so here are my notes from the books I've read since then.
So I am currently rewatching Stargate SG1 and thinking about certain things that always rub me the wrong way when watching or reading SciFi. Now, I know that Stargate in particular doesn't really take itself too seriously and shouldn't be scrutinized too much. It's also a bit older. But there are still some things that even modern SciFi-Worlds featuring outer space and aliens have or lack, that always slightly rub me the wrong way. I would love to hear your opinion.
Just watched this on streaming. It's about a young woman who stops aging and her difficulty in maintaining relationships as an ageless person. Blake lively is great in it and Harrison Ford is remarkable. Has anyone else seen it?
In a post a couple days ago in this comm where I asked for book suggestions, Eon was one of the most often recommended ones. As a result, I went into it with pretty high expectations. To my surprise, I didn't like it all that much. I'm bad at putting my feelings down on paper electrons(?), but I'll try to kickstart the discussion.
As an example, I love the Martian, and I think a lot of older books from authors like Asimov are heavily into engineering / competence porn. Other favs in this category include the standalone novel Rendezvous with Rama to leave you wishing for more, most of the Culture series for happy utopian vibes, Schlock Mercenary for humor, Dahak series for fun mindless popcorn.
It's about the end of the year, and I know there will all sorts of lists of the best books published this year, so this is a different question: regardless of when published, which SF books that you personally read this year did you enjoy the most. I'm also asking which you enjoyed instead of which you thought were the best, so feel free to include fluff without shame.
Based on curated lists from BookBub, Crime Reads, Book Riot and more, suggestions from readers on Goodreads, Quora and Reddit, and recommendations from authors like Jasper Fforde, Sharon Shinn and David Brin, here is a roundup of the 81 best sci-fi crime novels ever written.
I'm reading them in the author's recommended reading order and I'm currently up to The Vor Game. While the first Cordelia books are decent the Miles books are real page turners so far. So if you were put off by the cheesy looking covers like me, give them a go!
I just started reading Neuromancer, and finished the first two chapters. Can someone encourage me to keep on reading? It’s just so… disorienting. Very quick scene changes, hard to follow dialogues (who is actually talking?), too much jargon (I have read up on some, to get the gist), … I just feel lost, and doubt I will enjoy it at some point.
Pantheon season 1 is being added to Netflix tomorrow, but season 2 is not (and might never be). Both seasons are on Prime Video but it is region-locked, though I'm not sure which regions it is available in.
I really enjoyed reading it a couple years ago. Takes place mostly in about 2023, trying to accurately predict what life would be like 30 years after it was written.
I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of "well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine".
So there's a question I've been having for a while now: Why is Ubki, from Philip K Dick so popular ?
I've read it, and was pretty disappointed. The scenario starts pretty well, but becomes very obvious amongst the rest of the book, there's little no to connection between the scenes, everything seems to have no relation, the final characters (Ella and Joe) are barely introduced, the resolution (Ubki's provenance) is barely explained, ...
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