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17 votes
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The Mandalorian Season 2 to premiere on October 30th
@The Mandalorian: This is the day. New episodes start streaming Oct. 30 on #DisneyPlus. #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/8oruZ3oedx
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Star Trek: Discovery introduces first transgender and non-binary characters
7 votes -
Netflix announces they are working on an adaptation of the Chinese science-fiction trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin
12 votes -
Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
5 votes -
Dune thoughts and adaptation
I can understand why the journey to make this into a film is so convoluted. I'm not sure I've ever read anything so dense and epic. I was always sort of keen to the series, and always thought the...
I can understand why the journey to make this into a film is so convoluted. I'm not sure I've ever read anything so dense and epic. I was always sort of keen to the series, and always thought the worm god was just cool imagery. So I did have kind of an internal motivation to get this far, but now that I'm about to dive into God Emperor, I just feel bad for anyone that called it quits after the first book. Frank Herbert had a lot to say, and faithfully adapting this to any kind of screen, I think, is impossible.
9 votes -
‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ executive producer Alex Kurtzman on the series that helps interlink the Trekverse
4 votes -
Star Trek: Lower Decks S01E01 - "Second Contact"
15 votes -
Christopher Eccleston returns to Doctor Who - Big Finish
15 votes -
Star Trek: Lower Decks | Trailer
23 votes -
Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed the Matrix films with her sister, Lana, has confirmed that they should be read as allegories for the transgender narrative
16 votes -
How the "impossible" mirror scene in Contact was filmed
17 votes -
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller 'Tenet' delayed indefinitely
16 votes -
How well did sci-fi predict the details of this pandemic?
One of the favorite subjects of horror sci-fi — right up there with aliens, deadly asteroids and the machines taking over — has always been the deadly pandemic. One of the things I'm surprised at,...
One of the favorite subjects of horror sci-fi — right up there with aliens, deadly asteroids and the machines taking over — has always been the deadly pandemic.
One of the things I'm surprised at, is how close so many of those old sci-fi books and movies were. No, there are no zombies (...yet), no enraged psycho-killer chimps ... but on so many of the basics — how it spreads, the incredibly widespread piles of misinformation, all the ancillary political BS, right along with the courageous healthcare workers and medical researchers out there on the front lines, battling for a cure before it's too late ...
and etc.
How about a discussion thread to compare and contrast what the sci-fi got right, and wrong?
ETA: Alternatively, if we've already had this conversation and I just missed it, somebody please point me in the right direction, and then never mind about this thread?
11 votes -
The empire strikes back -- again. The second film in the Star Wars franchise topped the box office for the first time in twenty-three years, propelled by drive-in theater sales
9 votes -
Foundation | Teaser
21 votes -
Star Trek: Lower Decks sets release date for August 6th
5 votes -
How 'Star Trek' made history twenty-two years ago with a same-sex kiss (2018)
10 votes -
Bajoran culture is my feminist and queer inspiration
11 votes -
Manna, by Marshall Brain
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
6 votes -
AI robot cast in lead role of $70M sci-fi film
12 votes -
Playlist of all Brandon Sanderson's 2020 Creative Writing Lectures from Brigham Young University
11 votes -
Star Wars: Squadrons | Reveal trailer
10 votes -
Where does my main battery go?
8 votes -
Space Command S01E01 — The greatest 'Star Trek' type show you're not watching right now
14 votes -
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announce the winners of the 55th annual Nebula Awards
11 votes -
Revisiting Star Trek’s most political episode: In 1995, the Deep Space Nine installment “Past Tense” stood out for its realistic, near-future vision of racism and economic injustice
14 votes -
Now is a great time to start reading Gunnerkrigg Court
5 votes -
Tenet | New trailer
13 votes -
Mr. Plinkett's Star Trek Picard Review
8 votes -
How remastering ABC TV show 'The Stranger' after fifty-five years brought joy to its star, Ron Haddrick, in his dying days
4 votes -
Science fiction builds mental resiliency in young readers
7 votes -
‘Black Mirror’ creator says the world is too bleak for season six
21 votes -
The case for Stanislaw Lem
10 votes -
Why Star Wars still matters
6 votes -
Terry Pratchett novels to get 'absolutely faithful' TV adaptations
15 votes -
Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian trailer - 8-episode behind-the-scenes documentary series debuting May 4 on Disney+
5 votes -
Interview with Daniel Waters, writer of Demolition Man, on his movie's predictive power
13 votes -
Behold Dune: An exclusive look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and more
10 votes -
Wanderers - A short film by Erik Wernquist
7 votes -
Down to earth, present or near-future, science or science fiction stories featuring space?
I just finished binging The Habitat, the awesome podcast about NASA's simulated mission to Mars. And I'm feeling the urge to read something along those lines: fiction or true stories and indulge...
I just finished binging The Habitat, the awesome podcast about NASA's simulated mission to Mars. And I'm feeling the urge to read something along those lines: fiction or true stories and indulge my fascination with space (and things coming from it) and how that relates to contemporary imagination.
Any suggestions?
11 votes -
"Missile Gap" by C. Stross (medium-length scifi novella)
7 votes -
Download the 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' short fiction bundle for free, starting this International Women’s Day
10 votes -
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42
10 votes -
Tales from the Loop | Official trailer
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Star Wars: The High Republic - A new era of stories in books and comics, set 200 years before The Phantom Menace
8 votes -
Dirty Machines - "The End of History" (2020, short film)
5 votes -
Westworld | Season 3 trailer
19 votes -
A couple of thoughts about Annihilation (2018)
Just finished Annihilation. Decided to share some random thoughts: The film looks absolutely stunning. Perfect blend of beautiful and horrifying. But the characters… ugh. They are your classical...
Just finished Annihilation. Decided to share some random thoughts:
The film looks absolutely stunning. Perfect blend of beautiful and horrifying. But the characters… ugh. They are your classical horror film bunch of idiots. And, as per tradition with the modern sci-fi horror, they're supposed to be “scientists”. Bah.
It seems like both the screenplay and the visuals were heavily inspired by Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, and possibly Andrei Tarkovsky's film adaptation, Stalker (1979), as well as a bit of his other sci-fi work, Solaris (1972), here and there. Honestly, if you like the idea of “alien shit twisting stuff around it”, and you like reading, you're way better off just reading Roadside Picnic.
Why didn't most trees change? The flowers, the moss, and the animals get all kinds of wild twisted colours and mutations, but the trees remain just green? That really bothered me. They also don't mention all this mutated flora and fauna going outside “the zone”, which, I assume, would be a giant issue.
That lighthouse would be so destroyed if it was really hit by an object of that diameter.
I found it ironic that the psychologist of the team was the one who was severely depressed. Here in Russia we call that a “barefoot cobbler” situation. But the way the film shows severe depression is pretty accurate.
Overall, I reluctantly enjoyed the film, but I couldn't stop thinking that all those visual effects and designs would be much more amazing in a Strugatsky bros. adaptation film.
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Kirk Drift: "Womanizer" Captain Kirk and false memories of pop culture
16 votes