sciencefiction

…maybe a little too on the nose with channeling Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, there’s some truly problematic stuff with the native Medusans that goes all but uncommented upon, there’s some reactionary politics that may just be de rigeur for 20th century military sci-fi (I don’t know… would be happy to be...

I’m starting Scar in season 2, and the recap scenes show Starbuck in uniform requesting to lead a rescue, and both Adama and Roslyn rejecting her. Roslyn “appreciates what shes trying to do”. I don’t remember when this happened, and can’t figure out which episode it possibly could have, between the initial trip,...

I’ve been really enjoying John Scalzi’s catalog- Started with Starter Villain (delightful!), The Kaiju Preservation Society (Sweet…), Lock In + Head On (fun who-done-its), The Android’s Dream (clever, enjoyable read), Agent to the Stars (funny, creative, pretty good)....

Honestly I don’t know the authors or books, but I know that the the Storiybundles are usually not bad....

Below are books I’ve read over the last year, with notes about on what I thought of them. I started this list just to remind me what the books were about and if I thought they were worth reading. As the year went on, my notes became a little more substantial. The list was for me, but I thought I’d share in case it’s useful...

Scifiinterfaces analyzes the speculative technology in sci-fi movies and TV shows for fun and erudition.

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Approaching the Unknown, Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s film about an astronaut whose Mars journey does not go according to plan, combines old school non-CGI specia…

A lone astronaut on an endurance mission is forced to cope with an intrusive force which threatens to derail the operation. During the space race of the 1960’s,…

In the Dune universe, when a laser weapons hits a shield, both are destroyed in a nuclear explosion reaction....

…but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

I’ve always loved this list of sci-fi books. The 2000s web design compells me....

I recently finished Perdido Street Station, and one minor thing that bothered me is how many of the other races were either a humanoid version of earth life (cactus person, bird person) or a literal combination of a human and something (head of a bug, body of a person). That just seems so fantastically unlikely that I wonder if...

I’ve been loving my hard scifi recently. But I feel like it’s begun to demonstrate how much easier it is to imagine all the ways things could go wrong. If fiction is how we lay an outline for the future, I wonder if anyone can recommend some more uplifting stories to me? Rather than a cautionary tale I would appreciate a...

Thank you for the great work, Vernor. You’ll be missed.

I noticed that one of the monitors in the loom control room had “SKIN?” written on it in the dust that covered it. It seemed pretty mysterious and I was sure it was a detail that was going to be important, but it never came up as far as I noticed. Any theories as to what it’s about?

I’m always looking for media featuring aliens, especially multiple races. Came across this on TvTropes. Seems to dismiss the first book and say its unneeded. Anyone here enjoy/hate this one? Any starting point you’d recommend? Most importantly how prominent are the aliens?

Just won the Oscar for best visual