joene extra
@joeneXtra@todon.eu  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

tip:

*El eternauta* / *The Eternaut*

I watched the first four episodes and that is enough to advise this series from Argentina. Based on the comic with the same name.

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=TqT4fDQQqCc

Info: themoviedb.org/tv/226362-el-et

It's on Netflix, but it's of course also available via non corporate channels. Don't watch it with English audio, but with the original Spanish audio with subtitles.
Kai
@BonfireAtNight@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"A Memory Called Empire" ticks all of my boxes.

A Star Wars-inspired space opera whose narrative follows a murder-mystery plot. Our protagonist functions simultaneously as ambassador in an imperial society of Roman complexity.

I didn't feel particularly attached to the characters, but it's high-concept science fiction done right. The premise of implantable memories is very well developed in a plot that at times reads like an espionage thriller.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/db4e498c-ec43-43fb-8ce8-b175e6d8ea86?redirect=true

#sff #sciencefiction
Zumbador
@Zumbador@mefi.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Writing research question for the Sci Fi book I'm writing:
I need slang terms for computer malware that are based on languages other than English (like "worm" or "virus" are) or stories other than Greek mythology ( like "trojan" is). This is a far future deep-space community, but they originally came from Earth.

For example I thought of tsetse because of the African sleeping sickness that's transmitted by a fly.

Any ideas? Words for parasites, traps, nested dolls, hidden things, etc, in other cultures?

#ScienceFiction
Michael Whelan
@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

FOOTFALL (1984)
Acrylic - 29" x 19"

This Larry Niven cover is the only painting done for Del Rey Books in which I was “art-directed” into doing something I did not want to do. 1/5

#sciencefiction#scifi #scifiart #sff #illustration #larryniven

An elephant-like alien with multiple branching trunks hides behind the wood framed wreckage of a building. The tentacles of one trunk holds a mirror to peer around the corner. Another trunk holds a machine gun with curved magazine and bayonet. A man in drab military fatigues approaches with rifle in hand. The mirror isn't fixed on him but rather a woman in a tattered pink dress standing on the hill behind. She is pointing toward where the alien huddles. A red jacket is strapped to the alien's back along with a satchel that contained a teddy bear. Across a field of wheat and a foreground strewn with household wreckage that includes a water heater, bicycle, and wooden ladder, we can see the remains of a house that is only partially standing.
An elephant-like alien with multiple branching trunks hides behind the wood framed wreckage of a building. The tentacles of one trunk holds a mirror to peer around the corner. Another trunk holds a machine gun with curved magazine and bayonet. A man in drab military fatigues approaches with rifle in hand. The mirror isn't fixed on him but rather a woman in a tattered pink dress standing on the hill behind. She is pointing toward where the alien huddles. A red jacket is strapped to the alien's back along with a satchel that contained a teddy bear. Across a field of wheat and a foreground strewn with household wreckage that includes a water heater, bicycle, and wooden ladder, we can see the remains of a house that is only partially standing.
An elephant-like alien with multiple branching trunks hides behind the wood framed wreckage of a building. The tentacles of one trunk holds a mirror to peer around the corner. Another trunk holds a machine gun with curved magazine and bayonet. A man in drab military fatigues approaches with rifle in hand. The mirror isn't fixed on him but rather a woman in a tattered pink dress standing on the hill behind. She is pointing toward where the alien huddles. A red jacket is strapped to the alien's back along with a satchel that contained a teddy bear. Across a field of wheat and a foreground strewn with household wreckage that includes a water heater, bicycle, and wooden ladder, we can see the remains of a house that is only partially standing.
Adamas Nemesis
@adamasnemesis@social.adamasnemesis.com  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

What if the Death Star was not a mere weapon, but a Sith altar of human sacrifice? A dark place this line of thought will carry you...

Read the full (and dare I say chillingly plausible!) theory at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/06/18/star-wars-the-dark-theory/

This post's featured image is Edvard Munch's "The Vampire" (trust me, the Sith are so much worse...).

#fantheory#DeathStar#Sith#StarWars #cinema #film#scifi #fantasy #spaceopera #sciencefiction #movies #philosophy
AI6YR Ben
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I was a latchkey kid growing up, and spent two years getting off a bus and hanging out at the local library after school until my mom got out of work and picked me up. I used that time to read every single science fiction book in the library... hundreds and hundreds of books... which makes me feel like I have a fairly good basis to conclude we have taken the "science fiction dystopia" path rather than the "science fiction utopia" path. #sciencefiction