Sci-Fi of the Day
- Started
- Last post
- 440 Responses
- i_monk3
- Cool. The original Irwin Allen series is one of my favourites and goofy space monkey aside, I enjoy the shit out of the film.face_melter
- The thing with the original is that it's Sci Fi's Brady Bunch until Dr. Smith takes over the show and makes it about turning into carrots.CyBrainX
- Ramanisky21
- this movie freaked me out as a kid, couldn't sleep for weeks haOP31
- I lol'd as a kidfuturefood
- what the hell is this?cruddlebub
- Fire in the skyGM278
- drgs1
- this is real footage+cgi....right...ArchitectofFate
- just real footage, i thinkdrgs
- Awesome, in the proper sense of the word. I'm always amazed at the engineering that makes these places operate.face_melter
- Virginia soon....see_thru
- OP312
- i_monk1
- I love these things - like Gibson's Spindle and the colony in Interstellar. Proper large-scale, fuck off science.face_melter
- The Way?detritus
- RAMAtank02
- damn...was that a 'eon' greg bear reference detritus?...LOVE his books...exador1
- I'd love to see someone do Eon and Eternity as movies... they had a contest to do a trailer years ago... https://www.youtube.…exador1
- i'd heard he sold 'forge of god' and 'anvil of stars' to be made into movies...anvil being my fav of his books...exador1
- sarahfailin0
- I read this recently.monospaced
- Kinda laborious to get through, but still intriguing in concept. I tried the sequel, but couldn't get very far.monospaced
- FEAR THE SHRIKE
dasohr - THAT IS NOT HOW THE SHRIKE LOOKS, THANKS MR ARTIST WITH ANKLE- DEEP IMAGINATIONdetritus
- Shrike is kind of a dick btw.wagshaft
- LOL Glad you guys have read this. I love all 4 books of this series.sarahfailin
- PhanLo2
- some more ship stuff
https://martinkrol.a…PhanLo - Really nice animatic pre-production https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Gonna check it out tomorrowRamanisky2
- It's a weird story, but I'm glad I got to see it.PhanLo
- some more ship stuff
- Ramanisky23
Very creative low budget filmmaking & behind the scenes. I’m impressed.
- i_monk1
- it's relevant, looks good, and proves that you don't have to spend a fortune if you want to make good sci-fi.sted
- What's the twist? In the film, everyone was once human but no longer are?SlashPeckham
- Saw a recommendation on Twitter
didn’t have high expectations &
really enjoyed this lo budget flick.Ramanisky2
- sarahfailin2
- They did this with election results many years ago too. https://www.crosswor…Nairn
- I’d be interested to see what the down clues were and how the answers leaked/leased both work_niko
- Or wrap and trap, this whole thing seems dubious_niko
- Oh shit! never mind didn’t see the down clues above lol_niko
- jagara0
There is gossip that the new season of Picard is actually good.
- i really enjoyed ittrooperbill
- Even with some of the less stellar bits it's a fun send off for the Next Generation. Worth the watch if you liked the original show.evilpeacock
- A completely different show from the first two abysmal seasons. Still has some sloppy writing and puts emotion before reason.i_monk
- 'Good', no. Manipulative? Absolutely. They're basically abusing fans' nostalgia to get the season across the line.Continuity
- Still. It's a far better send-off for this crew than Nemesis was, even if the underlying story is utter shit.Continuity
- sted1
please be good, please be good
- it's getting better as the series progresses.
tbh, I'm finding the world building more intersting than the characters and individual stories ...Bluejam - ^ Why I hated Raised by Wolves. The world was cooler than the story.Knuckleberry
- Started really well, it got my attention after the second episode, but later it turned into the lame apple version of black mirror. The last two are ridiculous.sted
- it's getting better as the series progresses.
- Ramanisky22
- Lunacy but Still more plausible than our other religions._niko
- Greatest monetary Sci-Fi story ever told?Ramanisky2
- rzu-rzu2
- For a while he was doing Twitch Art streams, one of which was him making this particular image. Vods are no longer up, but his technique is really nice.face_melter
- He uses 3ds Max and ZBrush for the 3D and kitbashes everything together until it feels right, then does some post on the render.face_melter
- he's has a youtube channel, looks like he's put the vids there: https://www.youtube.…rzu-rzu
- Nairn1
I dun goofed.
Being Christmas, I tend to leave the UK for a week or two, so on a recent scan of second hand shops I was pleased to see a nice thicki-ish book by Liu Cixin for a quid, as I've been wanting to read 'The Three Body Problem' for a while now. Perfect for the holiday! I packed it along with a couple of old Lem Books I wanted to read again (Futurological Congress and Solaris) and here I am, abroad. Finished the Lem books in fucking no time because I'm an amazing reader and perhaps possibly because they're thin books with large type.
I start the Cixin book last night with wary anticipation - sure enough it's quickly made clear that This Is A Book Written By Someone From Chinese Culture; there's a sort of fundamental difference in philosophy and density, a shift in prose style and construction, but all very enjoyably so. As soon as my tired old brain fits itself into a new regime, I get into it and find it all very enjoyable - particularly the way it reveals itself, peeling itself back post hoc, but not in too confusing a time-jumpy fashion, except.. it's not quite. At some point a chapter or so in it's clear that there's a fundamental assumption that will not be explained and - oh fuck - there's a mention of "the three body system".
I'm reading the second part to the book I actually wanted to read, aren't I? Twat.
Now I have nothing left to read and am only a small few days in to my fucking holiday in a foreign country where I won't be able to buy any English matter - at least, stuff I'd want.
And I forgot the plug converter for my laptop, so unless I find one soon, I'm not even going to be able to read shit on the internet either. Goodbye.
- oops.
tl;don't read.Nairn - No kindle? This is the safe boat for strong readers in the xxi century mate...OBBTKN
- Or you can read on your smartphone, no english writen book store near you?? Where are going to holidays, to Mordor??OBBTKN
- Yyyeah, I know. I know! I've held off from the Kindle as I'd always expected there to be a load of equivalent open platforms, but eReaders never really did thatNairn
- Perhaps this is the spur I need.
Also - could fit a fuckload more books in my baggage!Nairn - Feliz Navidad, hombre!Nairn
- You can load your reader with tons of .mobi books, out of amazon store, np.
Eguberri on you too man!!OBBTKN - "a shift in prose style and construction" ooor its poorly written with cool ideascannonball1978
- I think I was trying to infer that I felt it being written by someone from a culture vastly different from mine, but whatever - I'm not a writer.Nairn
- Out of interest, have you read any of his stuff, cannonball?Nairn
- I read three body problem. It's a translation but the exposition and dialogue was rather unsophisticated. I don't know what that says about Chinese writing.cannonball1978
- oops.
- cannonball19784
Sold another story. Smaller press, but funny story about a kid with a cloaca on his chest who hooks up with a new girl at school and ends up laying a fucked up egg.