Assoc for Scottish Literature
Assoc for Scottish Literature  ·  3 days ago

Content Warning

“If you want to know how Banks views capitalist tech billionaires, you don’t have to hunt very hard. In the Culture series, a capitalist tech billionaire is the literal devil, only he couldn’t be bothered to build hell himself.”

—Constance Grady on how the broligarchy misreads Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels

@bookstodon

https://www.vox.com/culture/413502/iain-banks-culture-series-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-mark-zuckerberg

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi#SF #IainBanks#IainMBanks#TheCulture #techbros #broligarchy#Musk#Bezos#Zuckerberg

retech
retech  ·  5 days ago

Content Warning

Discovery of a still functioning Rovelli Ansible. It is still connected, however only to an automated beacon. Plus doubt it is currently paired to a functioning base.

#scifi #art #sculpture #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #fineart #artist #retrofuturism #scifiart #sciencefictionart #cyberpunkart

@artshare

@scifi

@art

@sculpture

@cyberpunk

@sciencefiction@lemmy.ml

@sciencefiction@lemmy.world

@sciencefiction@a.gup.pe

A video showing a device with a art deco wooden body to which are attached various electronic devices. The top is crowned with a functioning CRT screen playing video.
Lynette
Lynette  ·  2 weeks ago

Content Warning

Hey, I know some of my followers are avid sound effect collectors. I'm looking for a better copy of the Babylon 5 door chime sound effect that I have attached to this toot. It's the only one I can find, but it's not good enough to use as a notification sound on my phone. Apparently, there are multipple door chime sounds. I can find decent copies of the other one but not this one. #audio#SoundEffect#Babylon5#SciFi
Untitled media
Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕
Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕  ·  3 weeks ago

Content Warning

Caught up with this week's Doctor Who episode, and I... have thoughts. Lots of things I liked, but not my favourite of the season. It was good to see Ruby and her family again, and also to see how UNIT operates when the Doctor isn't there, setting up the spinoff nicely. Really looking forward to seeing more of those characters.

On the other hand, parts of the plot felt weak. Things happened way too easily, and escalated and deescalated pretty fast too. I thought the themes it tackled with how certain social media personas and alt-right grifters are responsible for the spread of disinformation were 100% spot on, but the way everything played out felt a bit sloppy.

Tl;dr, I liked what the episode had to say, but found the execution a bit lacklustre. At the same time I'm very here for Ncuti's speech at the end of the episode and for Kate Stewart's zero-nonsense, entering a grey area, badass approach to handling things.

#DoctorWho#DrWho#TV#SciFi#Television#Entertainment

Patrick O'Beirne
Patrick O'Beirne  ·  3 weeks ago

Content Warning

Question for old #scifi readers.
Which story (maybe 50 years old) opened with a sentence about a tall apartment where "... a piano was playing a man"?
Like Huxley's feelies.
Google failed me and LLM (I know, but sometimes you gotta try to peek around copyright walls in the interest of 'fair use' research) invented the usual plausible but wrong answer.

#sciencefiction #pulp

  • Activities
  • Search
  • Direct Messages
  • Notifications
  • Profile
  • Groups
    • ["Sorry, a condition didn't have any `case` matching the data it was expecting", "nil"]