Thought it was an average movie, but in a weird way - instead of being meh all the way through, it swings wildly between amazing and dreadful every fifteen minutes or so, and the two just about cancel each other out.
What good sci-fi series are on 'flix and prime?
For reference, I really enjoyed Firefly (obvs) and Continuum. Liked Ascension, didnāt get on with The Expanse or Altered Carbon. Got a bit bored with Travellers.
A million times this. There were bits of interstellar that were AMAZING but so many bits that made no sense whatsoever
My rule with Sci fi is I will suspend disbelief happily for anything at all as long as everything else follows on logically from that initial premise. I bought into the set up of interstellar but there were so many bits that made no sense afterwards. Why the living fuck did anyone think that a planet within the schwarzchild radius of a black hole would make a potential human habitation?? Itās like scoping out the fast lane of a motorway as a possible site to build a nursery school.
Oh and if the big problem on planet earth is crop failure, how does relocating to another planet help anyway? Youāre presumably bringing your f fucked up crops with you!
Dozois is dead? Oh man, I had no idea. Great editor.
Rich Hortonās work is good, I think. Thereās another one I enjoy but canāt think of. The Vandermeers, for historical anthologies, as I said above.
gonna do a j.g ballard deep dive too i think, followed by a lil PKD. so much stuff to read, wish there was no such thing as work tbh, robs us of valuable sci-fi time.
so i finished the genocides.
good god. how to sort through my feelings on this book. first, very good. compulsive, what they used to call a page turner. butā¦ermā¦if you thought the road was ott bleak, this is probably not the book for you.
like i say, i would recommend, itās a great book butā¦good god.
Did you watch The OA? That was quite odd but pretty watchable.
I quite enjoyed Altered Carbon and The Expanse and Iāve nearly finished s2 of Travellers (a bit slow at times but quite enjoyable I thought). I would also be interested in any good sci-fi series recommendations.
Iāve got Prime but havenāt watched much on it except for Preacher and Lucifer (and The Grand Tour)
Nah, keep looking at that and not being sure of it - will check it out though
I thought that The OA was absolutely brilliant - one of my favourite shows of recent years
Not everyone on DiS agreedā¦
Have you watched American Gods on prime?
I love it. Absolutely clankin for season 2.
i really enjoyed american gods too, but iirc theyāre having a lot of production issues with s2 and itās not looking likely to return
having just posted that i see theyāve actually been filming it for the last 2 months and itās set for next year
Ooooo do firefly now for us pls
oh yeah! I did, I forgot about that. I enjoyed it, definitely up for another season of that!
Oh. Arse. Didnāt read this until after posting my āexcited for s2ā post!
FFS I need to stop replying before reading all the other posts!
just finished watching starship troopers. still, without doubt, the single greatest film ever made.
I think @LastAstronaut is probably right that itās Against a Dark Background which is a fucking SLOG of a book. Christ.
The best one is Inversions as itās the only one written with the style of his contemporary books. The others can suffer from him writing in an over-serious style. I think Player of Games is a good first one to read and while I donāt think any M. Banks stuff is bad, I donāt think itās his best comparative to his non-Sci-Fi books like The Wasp Factory or The Crow Road. (And one could argue The Bridge is more Sci-Fi than anything I guess.)
Personally @Twinkletoes I reckon if thereās one author everyone should read itās Asimov. I avoided him for over a decade because I presumed his style of writing would be very like Iain M Banksās: slightly dry/reserved. But bloody hell, that man could write a story. I, Robot, Foundation, the Elijah Baley books are all really fantastic, despite all the effective anachronisms contained within them.
I was a big fan of Ancillary Justice.
I also really enjoyed Too Like the Lightning and Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer. I wasnāt fully on-board with her ideas at all times but it was really interesting to think about. If you want a good book to discuss in a book club or something then Too Like the Lightning will definitely achieve that.