Sci-Fi of the Day
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- Last post 18 days ago
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- cannonball19780
https://syntaxandsalt.com/2020/0…
I loved this.
- I couldn't get past the stock low-poly graphicsutopian
- The part where you read is good though.cannonball1978
- i_monk6
- Ah, thanks for posting - I forgot I wanted to check this out!Nairn
- Oh yeah!SlashPeckham
- Oooh!MondoMorphic
- Ummm... NoOBBTKN
- Upvoted, but I'm not convinced to go to watch this in a cinema or in a paid platform (inserts link in torrents-to-dl.txt)OBBTKN
- OH MY FUCKING GODmonospaced
- Looks good.
So I have 6+ months to finally get around to reading the Foundation series.Nairn - Definitely read it. I might have to revisit. It is incredibly good.monospaced
- I read those novels four or five times, starting in the 80s. I re-read them each time he put out another book. One even came out after Asimov died.CyBrainX
- i_monk0
The BNW remake seems to have completely missed the point of the book, and ending with a literal mystery box doesn't bode well for the second season now that they exhausted the book material.
- Bluejam1
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https://twitter.com/…Bluejam - The Star Destroyer model is a pure riff on John Berkey's work (in a good way). Berkey would go on to do actual SW artwork later.face_melter
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- i_monk0
Caught this on Netflix the other day. Not bad, some imaginative stuff.
- Beeswax1
The Web of the Chozen is a novel about Bar Holliday as he is physically transformed into a quadruped by a mutant virus on a lost colony.
Painting by Ralph McQuarrie (1929-2012) used as a cover in Jack L. Chalker’s novel “The Web of the Chozen” (1978).
- Nairn0
I just finished Alistair Reynolds' 'Revelation Space', a copy of which I've had sat on my bookshelf for - well, I forget, but a long time now.
Great stuff!
I think I've found a replacement for my dear-departed Iain Banks - indeed, Reynolds seems to have been more than a little inspired by Banks' Culture series, and the tone of the characters and scope of the space opera a very nice fit. Heck, he even has some cultures 'subliming'.
Would recommend.
- Nairn0
Stalling for time before coming into work this morning, I took Andy Weir's 'Artemis' to the shitter to start reading it.
I didn't even finish the first page before thinking "this is going to be total shit, isn't it?" and closing it.
I never read The Martian, but knew enough about it to think it'd be a bit dull and perhaps borderline somewhere on the spectrum in its.. well, totality.
Is it worth bothering with?
- The Martian is great and well worth a read (it's relatively short), even if you've already seen the movie. But Artemis was crap -- definitely don't bother.ridg0026
- haha, that seems like a fairly ringing unendorsement!Nairn
- The Martian is great, Artemis felt written for the screen and will possibly make a better film than book.spl33nidoru
- But Artemis was only his 2nd book, with the pressure of following a bookseller debut. Andy Weir definitely has more great stories in him.spl33nidoru
- *bestsellerspl33nidoru
- Nairn0
- Doubt they could do it justice.i_monk
- Probably not, no - doesn't mean I'd not like to have seen it though.Nairn
- Cross your fingers for Foundation.i_monk
- Thinking about it this since - this should wait until we can generate in VR. Anything to do with AI/Drone inner monologues or communication needs to be *felt*..Nairn
- ..and lived in. I can't see any way to do that usefully in a flat 2d space.
I think I'd rather see a slightly toony, but as-comprehensively verisimilitudinous..Nairn - ..as possible realisation.Nairn
- Also, it's easy to forget when reading (at least for a basicBloke CIS like myself) - most of his characters are visually anything but 'human' as we think now.Nairn
- They're typically modded in ways that would be, i think, hard to do en-masse.Nairn
- _niko0
"She like my futuristic sounds in the new spaceship
Futuristic sex, give her Philip K dick"- The Weekend , Snowchild
- grafician0
Game of Thrones showrunners are adapting The Three-Body Problem as first major Netflix project
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The legendary Chinese science fiction trilogy is getting a Netflix seriesBy Nick Statt@nickstatt Sep 1, 2020, 10:41am EDT
- I wonder if they'll keep the terrible dialogue. Could be fun if they did.Nairn
- utopian2
09/09/20
- i_monk4
I can't tell if this show is going off the rails or not.
- I quite like it, it's defo pretty weird. Some ancient aliens stuff creeping at some point I reckon.PhanLo
- Almost through the first season - started strong but got a little weaker as it progresses - hoping for a solid finaleStatic_Line
- The last 2-3 eps felt like filler that didn't really add anything.i_monk
- What show?_niko
- Raised by WolvesStatic_Line
- I was wondering same after Umbilical epprophetone
- like we need some more alien stuff and a change of scenery, maybe a sandwichprophetone
- Looks ridiculous********
- I've tried 3 times to finish the first episodes, I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes. I've tried...********
- Myeah. Drags on. Meh. Looks great, occasionally fantastic :)jagara
- rzu-rzu2
- For a while he was doing Twitch Art streams, one of which was him making this particular image. Vods are no longer up, but his technique is really nice.face_melter
- He uses 3ds Max and ZBrush for the 3D and kitbashes everything together until it feels right, then does some post on the render.face_melter
- he's has a youtube channel, looks like he's put the vids there: https://www.youtube.…rzu-rzu
