aithir

@aithir@mstdn.social

Team Lead Web Platform @XING.com. Science fiction micro stories. Post Rock & other music. Vegan. Green. Posts in EN.

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aithir,

#TropesAndArchetypes: Aliens

I'm starting with one of the most obvious tropes of all: Aliens. Other intelligent species are at the heart of at least half of all sci-fi and a good bunch of mystery stories. Aliens are fascinating for us because they represent both, a threat and great opportunities. ...

#Archetypes, #Tropes, #SciFi, #Fantasy

@scifi @fantasy

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tropes/02-aliens?c=mst

aithir,

#Tropes & Archetypes: Superpower

Superpowers in SciFi and Fantasy literature come from the wish of us humans to achieve more than what is theoretically possible on the one hand. On the other hand, they are a trait of being different and therefore they are often used as an analogy to unveil prejudice and envy. ...

#Archetypes, #Tropes, #SciFi, #Fantasy

@scifi @fantasy

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tropes/03-superpower?c=mst

aithir,

#Tropes

I was thinking about the types of SciFi. No, not the millions of sub-genres and derivates of sub-genres that seem to exist to for cataloging fiction. If you look a bit deeper, there are only two. The ones where science is the environment and the ones where science is the main actor.

You'll find a bit more context in my tropes collection:

https://octahedron.world/storylines/tropes/04-types-of-scifi?c=mst

@scifi @fantasy

#scif

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aithir,

#Octahedra: Chephren

Oscar van Dyk was one of the experts in the team of Carla Ruiz. They were responsible for the artefacts they called octahedra based on their form. There were four parts, almost identical and slightly imperfect. They were almost transparent except for a slight shimmer in different wavelengths. ...

#Space, #Time, #SciFi, #Fantasy

@fantasy @scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/octahedra/02-chephren?c=mst

aithir, to books

#SciFiFantasyReviews: The Dispossessed

A new series, folks. I watch a lot of movies and TV shows and I read a lot of books. So I'd like to do some reviews here. Not so much in the direction of good and bad and "x out of ten" voting, but rather under the aspect of what parts are interesting or unique in the sci-fi and fantasy world. ...

#ursulakleguin, #book, #Books, #Movies, #TVShows, #Review

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/reviews/01-the-dispossessed?c=mst

aithir,

#SciFiFantasyReviews: Star Trek Picard

The third and last episode of Star Trek: Picard, the TV series on Prime, is finished. After season one, I thought it was the best I've ever seen. Season two then brought it back on earth, figuratively. So how was season three and the whole series? ...

#startrek, #Books, #Movies, #TVShows, #Review

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/reviews/02-picard?c=mst

aithir,

#SciFiFantasyReviews: Ringworld

I'm late to this sci-fi classic: Ringworld by Larry Niven. Niven has, especially through the series of the Ringworld books, become one of the most renowned and respected writers of the genre, often listed as a successor of Golden Age authors like Bradbury, Asimov and Clarke. ...

#larryniven, #Books, #Movies, #TVShows, #Review

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/reviews/03-ringworld?c=mst

aithir,

#SciFiFantasyReviews: The Fifth Season

One of the most famous SciFi authors, Arthur C. Clark, once said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This characterizes the novel I'd like to discuss today pretty well. Let's talk about "The Fifth Season"...

#nkjemisin #books #review

@scifi

https://octahedron.world/storylines/reviews/04-fifth-season

aithir, to random

: Augmented Reality

Hello and happy 2023! I thought I'd start the new year with a new storyline of predictions. Now in ten years. This is just for myself. I'd like to look back at them in 2033 and laugh about how ridiculous they were. Let's start with Augmented Reality. ...

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Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/predictions/01-augmented-reality?c=mst

aithir,

#Predictions: TV Shows

Everyone writes about the rapid progress of AI. Everyone makes experiments with it, everyone has tried it out already. It's working much too well, right? Yes, it makes mistakes, but it's improving faster than you could write articles about its flaws. ...

#tv, #ai, #Future, #10YearsFromNow

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/predictions/02-tv-shows?c=mst

aithir,

#Predictions: Climate Refugees

Everything can already be seen in the architectural foundation of future history. It's getting hot on Earth. Some regions will become inhabitable. People who are currently living there will fight for their survival. ...

#climatecrisis, #refugees, #Future, #10YearsFromNow

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/predictions/03-climate-refugees?c=mst

aithir,

#Predictions: Self Driving Cars

Traffic is terrible, Jams are annoying, Construction sites are from hell and I don't even want to start with the other drivers. If only cars could drive on their own. Let's look at the situation in ten years. ...

#cars, #autonomousdriving, #Future, #10YearsFromNow

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/predictions/04-self-driving-cars?c=mst

aithir,

#Predictions: Metaverse

As a big cyberpunk fan, I am constantly interested in the VR topic. The Metaverse is the latest real-world iteration on this topic and the Apple VR initiative will surely give it another spin and acceleration. So what will Meta's approach most likely look like in ten years? ...

#metaverse, #internet, #Future, #10YearsFromNow

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/predictions/05-metaverse?c=mst

aithir,

#Predictions: Job Markets

As long as we can think, work has been at the centre of our existence. These days, it covers around 25% of our adult life, 40 hours a week. In former times, it was more and it tends to become less in the next decades. Two megatrends pull on each side of this important part of our life, on the job market place. ...

#jobs, #Future, #10YearsFromNow

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/predictions/06-job-markets?c=mst

aithir, to random

: Marla

Marla had been a gifted child. She graduated at age 13, got her master's degree at 15 and wrote an already groundbreaking piece as her PhD Thesis when she was 20. That was in the year 2089. ...

(New storyline ... yay!)

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Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/01-marla?c=mst

aithir,

#TheBond: The Crew

Martin, the chief diplomat in the crew of the Rana Mission, stood in line with the others as Captain Persson gave her speech. It was the departure speech. Martin was a little nervous and proud. He would most likely be the Armstrong of his era, the person who was supposed to make first contact with an alien. ...

#Aliens, #SpaceOpera, #SpaceTravel, #SciFi

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/07-the-crew?c=mst

aithir,

: Kidnap Induced Heist

"Glad you have found our message", a distorted voice said with a noticeable ironic undertone. "We have your girlfriend. You know that. Hugo Niemann, you will do something for us. You will raid the crypto vault of Credit Cayman. We know what you're capable of." ...

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@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/operator/06-kidnap-induced-heist?c=mst

aithir,

#TheBond: Arrival

Arriving in the Rana system was less spectacular than Martin thought. The blackness of the space there followed the blackness between the systems. The only difference was a star that shone a bit brighter than usual. They still had two days until they were supposed to reach the orbit. ...

#Aliens, #SpaceOpera, #SpaceTravel, #SciFi

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/08-arrival?c=mst

aithir,

: R00ts Plan

B055 once showed her the place in the 3D map of Prague. "I'd go there", he said pointing at the ugliest piece of brutalism architecture that her otherwise beautiful home city had to offer. It was the abandoned, rotten TV tower. Now she came here to think from time to time. And there was a lot to process now. ...

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@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/operator/07-r00ts-plan?c=mst

aithir,

: Come In

The day of the heist. B055 and R00t prepared themselves. They chose flies as their Avatars. R00t once came up with that mod. Actually, avatars have to be at least 1 unit in height. For today's purpose, a little piece of nothing that could defy virtual gravity was a perfect fit. ...

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@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/operator/08-come-in?c=mst

aithir,

#TheBond: First Contact

The following weeks brought inflation of knowledge. The probes on the surface of Rana 3 worked perfectly. The translator AI learned the new languages within a week. In the same week, the crew gathered geographical and sociological data. After that, the working teams augmented their observations with statements from the aliens. ...

#Aliens, #SpaceOpera, #SpaceTravel, #SciFi

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/09-first-contact?c=mst

aithir,

: The Heist Itself

The safe was a different beast. It couldn't be cracked with programming skills. That was the task of B055, the Operator. Hugo did not only know most of the security systems by heart, he also had an intuition for the situation and he had a bespoke toolkit from R00t. So he went to work. ...

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@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/operator/09-the-heist-itself?c=mst

aithir,

: Counter Heist

B055 moved like a robot. This was his world, the crunch time. Twenty seconds left on the clock. The time was counting down in his heads-up display. For some of the data artefacts, he used ejectors to transfer the raw data. But some of them had to be extracted as a whole, the complete virtual objects. The problem: This would be discovered within minutes by the securities at Credit Cayman. ...

@scifi

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aithir,

#TheBond: Diplomatic Connections

For Martin, the first contact was a life-changing moment, but the weeks, months and years after that were the most work-intensive. He became the first ambassador representing Earth as a whole while over there on his old home planet they still thought in dimensions of states and corporations. ...

#Aliens, #SpaceOpera, #SpaceTravel, #SciFi

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/10-diplomatic-connection?c=mst

aithir,

: Free

B055 and R00t needed over three hours in their virtual lab to sort out and prepare the loot from the heist. Some of the data packets contained encrypted inclusions they had to crack first. Some others were still covered in their virtual objects. Paranoid shit. ...

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@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/operator/11-free?c=mst

aithir,

#TheBond: Scientific Entanglements

Martin and the other leads of the first contact crew regularly spent their evenings together with dinner and discussions since the launch of the mission. One day, about four months after the first contact, Amanda, the chief biologist, came out of nowhere with a topic. "These are no aliens", she said and got the attention of everyone in the room. ...

#Aliens, #SpaceOpera, #SpaceTravel, #SciFi

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/11-scientific-entanglements?c=mst

aithir,

Three weeks had passed since the heist. Although the first call with Hugo and Adele was heartwarming and tears were flowing, Hana felt a change. They barely worked together and they met in their real Avatars. At the same time, they were closer and more distant to each other. Hana decided that it was time to do something. She took the train to Hamburg. ...

#Mesh, #Hamburg, #SciFi, #Cyberpunk

@scifi

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/operator/12-real-life?c=mst

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