Alex Keane
Alex Keane  路  4 weeks ago

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Was watching #StarTrek Discovery last night and saw an example of a common #SciFi scene that irks me: "Oh, is that a book, I've never seen one in person before, how quaint, isn't that inefficient mass to storage..."

It bugged me in #TheExpanse too.

Because like, we've been doing digital computers for a while now and if anything, storage has gotten more volatile, not less. Meanwhile, I'm just someone who wanders used bookstores and buys cool things and I have 19th Century #books. Intact.

Owen Tyme
Owen Tyme  路  4 weeks ago

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I'm editing a an old piece (Fey Fighters) that's never been published.

I came across this line and smiled:

"We鈥檙e in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that鈥檚 under the mistaken impression she鈥檚 a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human. Is there anywhere we can go we won鈥檛 be shot on sight?"

That's my favorite line, which I'd forgotten about until a few minutes ago.

#writing #fiction #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #funny #quote

Mark Guyer
Mark Guyer  路  4 weeks ago

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Tomes and Talismans is the best post-apocalyptic, dystopian, educatioal series about the Dewey Decimal System ever devised: On a future Earth, we have been colonized by simple-minded, humanoid aliens called The Wipers who have destroyed our technology and our ability to communicate on a massive scale. The only way to stop the only way to stop them? Efficiently navigating a library and reading books! The more our world falls to ignorance and illiteracy, the more this silly show feels like a documentary. THE WIPERS ARE HERE! THEY鈥橰E ALREADY HERE!!! #scifi #sciencefiction #postapocalyptic #appcalypse #publicaccess #libraries #books #reading #librarians #aliens #invasion #horror
Alex Doppelg盲nger
Alex Doppelg盲nger  路  4 weeks ago

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鈿欙笍 Star Trek The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse, Doctor Who, The X-Files, etc. How much we love sci-fi series! I don't know if we would have enjoyed them as much if the BBC hadn't gotten involved about 83 years ago, when on February 11, 1938, it broadcast the first sci-fi film in history on TV (more specifically, the first sci-fi program-film-whatever made specifically for TV).

鈿欙笍 Initially, I wanted to call it a series, but it was simply a 35-minute adaptation of a part of the play "R.U.R." by the Czech writer Karel 膶apek. "R.U.R." stands for "Rossumovi Univerz谩ln铆 Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots)" and was first staged in 1921. It's about humans who create robots (more closely related to the idea of "androids," "replicants" from Blade Runner, or "cylons" from Battlestar Galactica) that eventually rebel against their creators.

鈿欙笍 The most important thing is that in "R.U.R." the term "robot" was used for the first time.

馃摳 Photo: a sequence from the BBC adaptation of the play "R.U.R." for the small screen (1938)

#History#Culture#TV#SciFi#Robots#Android#RUR#Czech #czechrepublic #europe#KarelCapek

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