INPUT: I'm an arts + humanities nerd with one foot squarely in the junk drawer: #SciFi, #fantasy, #CultFilm, horror, anime, video games, #punk. I ride with Nabokov and Tolkien and Marshall McLuhan and Evangelion and Stephen King.
It's on a printed backdrop behind a cafe. Normally it doesn't get seen from this angle (because the vista requires a forced perspective to work) but in "The Fall of the Night" the camera is awkwardly placed and this checkerboard ball is visible. It looks a lot like the boing ball to me!
Babylon 5 famously used Amiga products to make the cgi... so I want to believe...
Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in Palatino on a Macintosh II using Word for Mac 3.0/4.0. Screenshot is from my Voyager edition ebook that was developed using Hypercard and distributed on a 1.44 floppy disk. Voyager ebooks were mainly marketed to PowerBook users for reading on the go. #itsaunixsystem#iknowthis#vintageapple#scifi#jurassicpark
Oh boy! @IndieWire has ranked the best sci-fi movies of the 21st century. We're pleased to see personal favorites like "The Vast of Night" and "Coherence" represented. Here's the full list. We want to know, which of these four do you think they put in the No. 1 spot? After voting, check out the story and tell us in the comments if there are any great movies they missed.
The societal role of "Science Fiction Author" is obsolete.
The primary utility of SciFi is to satirize problematic real-life trends, and/or present visions of a better future.
Given that life is blissfully perfect in Friend Computer's Utopia, such works are redundant and moot.
All science fiction authors are hereby reassigned as reactor shielding, and their works burned.
As the first commercial #spacecraft lands on the #moon, for #SciFi readers this all looks rather familiar.... one of the dominant tropes of so much #sciencefiction is the issue of privatised space exploration.... whether its a celebration of #capitalism's move into #space, or more often a critique of what commercial interests bring to space missions.
In any case, looking back in 50 years time, I can see this being seen as an important milestone (for good or worse)
Not all time-travel movies are created equal. Some are entertaining but scientifically suspect; others sacrifice storytelling in the interests of accuracy. For @arstechnica@JenLucPiquant and @seanmcarroll ranked 20 movies for both entertainment value and logic. Which do you reckon came out on top? Tell us in the comments if you agree.
All that #scifi that had super rich business people as heros
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Maybe enough with that crap and write some stuff recognizing that democratic governments formed because super rich people screw things up not fix things
Eugen Rochko recently posted a thought:
"I think it comes down to, AI has no place in the arts. Machine-generated art has the appearance of what it is emulating, but no substance. Like cake made entirely of fondant. Or cardboard."
'Aiono' replied: "Also even if it could, like why would you automate one of the most entertaining part of being a human?"