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)....

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...

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

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...

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 read Kim’s Mars trilogy years ago and liked it. I decided to pick up The Ministry of the Future a couple days ago. It’s very different, and without any spoilers, I have to say it’s made me hate humanity even more than I already did. If you haven’t read it, it’s a near-future climate disaster book. Well written,...

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Currently, I have the following books on my wish list that I am thinking about buying....

Do any science fiction book subscriptions exist anymore with reasonably good quality books? About 10 years ago I was able to subscribe to a year of Angry Robot books for about $120 or $150. It wasn’t a bad deal as I remember I got about 24 books for the price.

I’ve been on a cosmic horror kick lately, and what I’d really like to read is stories or novels of the awful and unfathomable on a spaceship. Stories where we go to them, poke what shouldn’t be poked, scan what shouldn’t be scanned, and things proceed from there.

I have read a TON of contemporary SciFi authors. I really enjoy...

I’ve had both, the Hyperion series, and The Expanse series sitting on my shelf for years now, and only ever read a little bit of the first books of both series....

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I just finished watching the depressing ending of Risen 2021 and the instant the end credits started I was hit with a realization - wasn’t this what happened during the Great Oxygen Catastrophe? Anaerobic life existed on this planet for ~1.5 billion years before cyanobacteria came along. It wasn’t alien life that did it but...

I got “2061: Odyssey three” as a gift but I didn’t read first two books. Can I start with 2061 or should I read 2001 and 2010 first?

I read quite some time ago the foundation trilogy and “prelude to foundation”, and I was evaluating buying an ebook with the 7 books, (the trilogy plus the 2 prequels and the 2 sequels.)...

My understanding is thanos didn’t use any power of infinity stones in the infinity war fight and hulk wasn’t previously injured very badly . He almost seemed to easy to be knocked down why ? Shouldn’t he have grown stronger because he is angry because everyone is dying and he is getying beat up ?

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Over the last few years my family and I have binged all of Star Trek, then moved on to Star Trek adjacent shows like The Orville and Stargate. At the moment we’re not really watching anything sci-fi. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for similar shows (or maybe some books) that fill the void left by Star Trek. In...

Read it recently, somewhat influenced by a post about John Scalzi on the sub, just wanted to share my thoughts and ask what you guys thought....