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- uan2
Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fictiont
- cannonball197811
Checking my junk mail, I found a contract for a story of mine to be published in a forthcoming anthology tentatively titled "New Voices in Science Fiction". Phew good save lol.
The year's first acceptance so far.
- Nairn1
Hey cannonball - I finally started reading The Three Body Problem the other day and see what you mean about 'poor writing'! I'm not sure if it's a translation thing or perhaps it was his first book - or both - but a lot of it is incredibly clumsy. Dialogue and exposition is almost pulp fiction in parts.
That said, I barely had three hours sleep last night reading it, so should be finished soon and can get started back on Dark Forest and compare - that edition is translated by what sounds like an Anglophone*, so I'll see if there's much difference.
It's a completely different book to what I was expecting - although I'm not sure what I WAS expecting. Some of it's brilliant (hence the poor night's sleep...)
* I'm probably being racist now - translator of TTBP has a Chinese moniker. He could well be third generation American.
- I was going to say last time I mentioned this - some of the best sci-fi has terrible dialogue and characterisation - Niven, Simmons & Clarke spring to mindNairn
- Its true, good writing is not always the hallmark of good Scifi. Tree Body Problem is a fantastic story, I just had issues with the delivery.cannonball1978
- Bluejam10
- sick workcannonball1978
- superbfadein11
- wantMrAbominable
- Bottom one is lovely.PhanLo
- *jaw drops* daamnCalderone2000
- *licks the screen +********
- Unreal detail on this stuff.ideaist
- This is fucking magnificent.
I wonder how much inspiration he took from this series of books:
http://www.khantazi.…Continuity - i gotta say - as someone completely unable to do it - being a decent concept artist must be the Best Fucking Job.Nairn
- I'd spent all my days doing it making splosion and spaceship noises as I drew.Nairn
- *spendNairn
- Holy hell I wish I had these skills.mg33
- All paint colors will be bleached by the sundrgs
- He has a learnsquared class that’s very informative. Goes over 3 styles: black and white base, paint and 3D. Well worth even for tips while he works.antimotion
- what is this aesthetic called again? I think starwars coined it, rust something?_niko
- uan1
- cannonball19782
Published another story in F&SF
- sarahfailin1
The new season of MST3K on Netflix is laugh out loud funny. Highly recommend
- ********1
- i_monk5
Dune Remake Wraps Production
https://movieweb.com/dune-remake…
The last I heard about this was casting; I kind of figured it was never going to happen.
- i_monk3
HBO Max Is Moving Forward With Another Try at Adapting Snow Crash
- C Y B E R P U N Kutopian
- sweettrooperbill
- They should have picked a different Stephenson bookcannonball1978
- That book is overrated. Sorry.wagshaft
- Cut out the hacker cap and it'll be good.i_monk
- i_monk7
I would watch Dune animated this way:
- pr2-2
Trailer for my sci-fi book "Thorns of Immortality" is finally out. I'm super excited. Writing it took way longer than I anticipated and in many ways helped me dealing with my mid-life crisis:
You can find more info here: http://thornsofimmortality.com/
- Should've drawn the title text too as that stands out and looks a bit bleh by comparison.
But fuck me, that's some cool shit.Nairn - Thx man!pr2
- Repost it when the book is out, I'm not going to rememberdrgs
- man, the 4+ people who dv'd this... really?Nairn
- i gots the enemies... yes, i'll let everyone know when this comes out. it probably will be very small personal run.pr2
- Looking good.cannonball1978
- With some little movements in After Effects and particles it would look really nice.
So many good drawings in there. Looks cinematic.PhanLo - Phan, i was thinking of doing just that too but i'm torned because at some point the image become too "cool" with movement.pr2
- BTW, cannonball, since you actually publish your writing, do you mind if i reach out to you with some questions? I can't find your email though (mine is the webpr2
- Sent you an email, fyi.cannonball1978
- Should've drawn the title text too as that stands out and looks a bit bleh by comparison.
- Nairn4
Hey cannonball (or indeed anyone else..) - did you bother persevering with Cixin Liu's 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' trilogy?
If so, I'm curious to know what you think - I finished the third one a few weeks back and despite the problems we both recognised in The Three Body Problem (turns out the pulp fiction dialogue wasn't a problem of poor translation), i gotta say that it was a good trip overall. Some really big sci-fi ideas. Third book was, I think, my favourite - even if the ending was a bit.. well, in case you've not read it I'll stay schtum.
- I personally hated Death's End. I think I liked Dark Forest the best.sarahfailin
- I did not.cannonball1978
- I did read Neal Stephenson's Fall, recently, which was good.cannonball1978
- cannonball197810
I think I may have another *knock on wood* sci fi short story story accepted at one of the big three.
