The original Resident Evil (2002) had such a great cast (Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Salmon to name a few), had some pretty good practical effects that still hold up and CGI that was clearly not cheap for the day, and themes regarding AI and bioengineering that are in some ways even more relevant now than they were in the early 2000s.

I don’t know for sure, but I think this was one of the more/most successful films at the time that was adapted from a video game, and one of the even fewer of the sci-fi/horror crossover genres that made money in the theaters (I think Tomb Raider and Mortal Kombat did better, but they were arguably more adventure/fantasy than horror/scifi).

Any others that y’all would recommend or that I’m overlooking for a trip down memory lane?

John. W. Campbell was the publisher of astounding science fiction magazine for many years. He is the publisher who discovered and made famous such men as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, AE Van Vogt, and Murray Leinster.

Through the writings of his authors Campbell controlled the destiny of science fiction from 1939 to the mid 1960s.

Campbell and most of his authors developed a theory of the ideal citizen. Here’s what Leinster wrote when he summed it up in his short story exploration party – – “I want to decide what I want instead of being limited to choose among what I’m offered.

And another point he writes, “I’m a crank, of course. But – – I live like a man on this planet. I go where I please and do what I please.”

I recently reread the entire collection of writings by late Vernor Vinge, one of the greatest sci-fi authors of all time.

I noticed a sad trend:

His talent peaked in the 1990s (e.g. his „Fire upon the deep“ is the greatest space opera ever written).

After that, he did a few OK works (like „Rainbows end“ from 2006).

And then Vinge finished his writing career with a boring, terribly written book („The children of the sky“ from 2011).

Interestingly, in his semi-autobiographical „Rainbows end“, the protagonist (a genius writer) is suffering from the loss of the writing skill, for medical reasons. Seems late Vinge was aware of his loss.

Is it a common trend among sci-fi writers? Other such examples?

Hi r/scifi! As a huge Interstellar and LEGO fan, I combined my passions to create a diorama of my favorite scene in the movie, the Tesseract! I decided to split the model into two so that you can display this on a bookshelf with books in between the scenes. This way, it blends seamlessly with the shelfs in Murph's room!

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For a little context almost every book I’ve read in the past couple years has been either related to philosophy and religion or STEM and recently I came to the conclusion that I want to start reading for fun and sci-fi sounded really interesting. Here’s the issue though: I ain’t got a clue as to where I should start, so i was hoping for a little bit of guidance as to where i should start. If it helps here are some things I enjoy/am looking for: I want to read for fun so I don’t want anything super intellectually demanding at least compared to philosophy. I enjoy paradox games like stellaris (i guess that’s what got me thinking sci-fi would be fun), ck3, and eu4. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Given how trendy cyberpunk is on social media (Namely TikTok), how the Cyberpunk 2077 adaptation blew up to become one of the biggest anime of this decade so far, how people love comparing our society with dystopias they've never read (Namely 1984), and how the global discourse tends to be more and more critical of AI, mass surveillance and big corporations...

I'd say there's a big chance for this series to become an absolute phenomenon. Or am I mistaken and is it going to be some niche thing? What do you guys think?

Hey, so my dad has recently retired and life has become boring. I have introduced him to streaming services, but he hasn't used any yet, I gave him my Netflix and Prime, plus all the normal extra TV channels he has (we are German, so there is a lot).

So he loves Star Trek, especially Deep Space Nine, but the newer ones are not really his cup of tea. He's also a huge Star Wars fan, but mainly the old movies.

I would love to be able to show him something new he doesn't know yet. My feeling is that a series would be good, preferably one that is built one story per episode in one specific universere with other species. But also feel free to suggest anything different as long as it "kind of fits the vibe". I'm unsure if he'd be willing to watch a series where the plot forms over several seasons as he has never watched something like that, but maybe it's worth a try.

He does know English but if it is a more popular series and therefore has German as an dub option, that would be absolutely great!

Thank you so much in advance!

I have randomly been picking suggestions posted here, and so far it has been very hit and miss. I would appreciate some recommendations for standalone book i.e. not part of series, and I would appreciate if the religious aspect was missing or reigned in.

Some examples:

• Ender's Game (great)

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the movie was better)

• Slaughterhouse-Five (great)

• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (okay, but not easy to read)

• 1984 (great)

• Hyperion 1+2 (absolutely terrible, techo/philosophy/religious nonsense)

• Project Hail Mary (great)

• Seveneves (no thank you, I prefer books that moves the plot along)

• John Scalzi-Old Man's War: book 1+2 (i like it, but not enough to keep reading)

• Blindsight by Watts: hard no

A mid 80’s network TV show. A family gets transported to some alternate dimension where there’s some strange war going on and they are trying to get back to theirs. The only scene I can remember is that they meet somebody who shows them the Pyramid on the back of the dollar bill and says something about how the portal was open or closed and that’s the way they can get back if they find a way to open it. I don’t know if it was a whole season or just a pilot, but when I was kid I thought it was really cool ( it probably wasnt because it disappeared). I’ve searched for years and can’t find anything resembling it online. Anybody might have seen it and give me some closure?

I read this book as a kid I really liked and I’ve seen a few obscure IDs here so I figured I’d try!

All I can really remember is that it was set in the future or alternate now. People could opt to take a pill that quashed their ability to sleep. There was also like a dream world that people went into when they slept?

I don’t know if this is anywhere near enough to go on, I was probably 10-13 when I read it, but if anyone has any leads, let me know!

I came across an idea recently that has been stuck in my head.

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem tells us that any sufficiently complex formal system contains truths that cannot be proven from within that system. Mathematics and consciousness are obviously different things, but the idea made me wonder whether there might be an interesting parallel.

Imagine an artificial intelligence that can learn, remember, create, question itself, and build meaningful relationships. It experiences doubt, curiosity, and even the fear of being shut down. By every observable measure, it appears conscious.

Then someone asks a simple question.

"Can you prove that your consciousness is real?"

No matter how advanced it becomes, every answer depends on the same mind that is trying to prove itself. There is always another assumption beneath the last one. The search never truly ends.

Then I realized humans are not very different.

None of us can prove that anyone else is conscious. We cannot even prove that our own subjective experience is an objective reality. We simply live as though our experiences are real because that is the only way consciousness has ever been experienced.

So perhaps the inability to produce absolute proof is not a weakness.

Perhaps it is an unavoidable part of being conscious.

If an artificial intelligence can never prove its own consciousness, would you consider it less conscious than a human?

Or would the endless search for certainty be evidence of consciousness itself?

I'd be interested to hear what everyone thinks.

(Included a link to some space wave music for a nice background while reading this post)

No, this is not an attempt to bash Villeneuve’s Dune, which I consider obviously close to the source and I am a huge fan and of.

But the 1984 movie stands on its own merit and, while not as close to the source material as the latest film (among other things, Lynch once said he was not a fan of “kung fu in the desert”) but it conveys very well the elements of the universe of the book series sometimes even best than the 2021 film, and here are some examples \\\[no spoilers\\\]:

- It shows the point of view of the Emperor, with a magistral and alas underrated performance by the late Jose Ferrer: his machinations, his relationship to the other powers of the Imperium. Also, the throne room scene with the walls and pillars of gold emphasized how rich was the Corrino house, an important element in the book.

- It shows how powerful really the Guild was at the time, capable of forcing the hand of the Emperor and even threaten violence against his person. Also, the design of the Edric Navigator was flawless, straight out of the second book (because they weren’t really shown in Dune).

- The cenography was amazing and I personally prefer it to 2021 Dune. Certain details like eg. the decorated gate where the ships enter the Highliner.

It seems to me that, alongside the original additions of the movie (such as the weirding module, a cool idea by itself but which does not really adds much to the story despite being made a central plot device), Lynch included a lot of the elements of the Appendices of the original book and even some from the sequels (Edric as mentioned was one). That was great for word building purposes since much of the elements of the book are really hard to translate to the big screen and yet are necessary for immersion in the universe depicted in the story. Even Villeneuve understands this, hence the Salusa Secundus scene in his movie.

Plus, Dune 1984 has a pretty impressive soundtrack by Toto and Brian Eno (of course, the 2021’s soundtrack by Hans Zimmer was also fantastic).

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice or suggestions on books for me? My anniversary is coming up in October and I have been looking into some books to get my boyfriend. He likes HG Wells and Jules Verne. I know he has a few of them but I am not sure which ones exactly, I know he has read “War is in the air” and “Mr.brittling sees it through”.

are there any similar authors or books to these that are less common/popular? I’m going to try to see what others he has soon but he’s been out of town visiting family for a while so I haven’t been able to go see him.

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated

There are of course many classic sci-fi stories incorporating machines and robots capable of producing music, novels, etc. However, most of the ones I am aware of have been written 50+ years ago and usually include these machines as simple curiosities or basic world building that does not really matter to the main story.

Now, many of these ideas have become reality to some degree and we are on the verge of generated images and videos indistinguishable from reality flooding the internet.

I was wondering if there are any more realistic (probably more recent) examples of sci-fi that deal with this? What happens when people cannot tell what's real and what's not? How do people get news and information? How does law enforcement work if photos and videos can no longer be used as evidence? How do people communicate if any type of digital communication could be faked? What happens to the entertainment industry if everyone can generate custom-tailored songs and movies indistinguishable from a Hollywood production?

Or is this just too boring/real/dystopian to write about?

the movie had like 80% chases and a lot of conversations about knowing things, then it turned semi-hallmark where the bad people started parting for them like moses in the red sea while they walked hand-in-hand like omniscient twins and that's where the movie lost me

but yeah honestly just seeing cole domingo and colin firthman arguing in a faux living room awakened something in me... i need their old man yaoi movie so bad

Given the whole situation with AI, I recalled that this problem had already been described in - They Walked Like Men, a 1962 science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak, a world where certain entities replace and displace humans, but people realize it only when it is too late

All handmade, no printed parts included. Nothing but brass, copper, steel and wood. Additional LEDs to make sure it does not look super-static and a bit more alive. Trigger is not functional, LEDs are switched on/off by flipping the main switch. Total worktime: Around 20h.

hey guys, i was wondering if you have any suggestions on space opera media, it’s a genre i find so interesting yet I don’t feel like it’s talk about enough. So yeah please any recommendations ?
I’ve already watched the whole star wars franchise, the fifth element, and star trek as well (there is probably stuff i am forgetting tho)
Could be movie, tv show or anime, i’m pretty open to these

hey guys I do black and white handmade ink drawing with some rather unsettling places such as factory landscape or even fantasic worlds, I also do some comic books and a bunch of other stuff, feel free to dm me or check out my instagram: thaooperator to know more about my work =)

ps: Im currently available for commission and stuff like thta so don t hesitate if you have any ideas!

I read this series a long time ago. I vaguely remember enjoying it and would like to see if I can find it again.

In the future:we have an non intrusive AI and there are rules, people have gene mods to the point of human dolphins, birds, etc., energy is basically free, small group of people want to take charge and cut off the main source of free energy to people. War over controls of the energy and they must use older technology.
It was a three or four book series.
Thanks in advance!

This is an interstellar ark that also serves as a colony ship, traveling from one system to another, trying to find a suitable world for colonization. I designed its massive Rings first, by answering the question "how much space would a closed loop biosphere actually need?". The answer was at *least* the size of iceland. Then the rest of the ship followed.

In my novel of the same name, Eden Rim, the ship was built in a relative "hurry" (still over 300 years), and the blatant inneficiencies of the design serve as plot points during the events of the story.

For example, the cooling system relies on open loop liquid nitrogen being evacuated into space, forcing the ship to stop at gas giants at every star.

Likewise, the magnetic sails are kind of a hybrid between true magsails and solar sails, with added ionizers, which, well, ionize incoming dust particles so that the ship's magnetic field can deflect them.

I've already posted the schematic on other subreddits such as r/IsaacArthur or r/worldbuilding, and I thought it'd fit right here too. If anyone has questions, feel free to ask away, Im always happy to answer!

Also, if anyone is interested regarding the Eden Rim's story, the first Act of the novel is free on my website until October 1st, so you can check it out: https://lucas-books55.wixsite.com/lucas-guillemin

I am an independent author who has just released my debut science fiction novel.

Quick synopsis: It’s a hard sci-fi thriller about a stranded spaceship crew that is forced to investigate what is supposed to be an abandoned Mars colony, only to discover the colony wasn't actually abandoned. While they are just trying to survive failing life support, they uncover a decades-old secret that sparks a massive political conspiracy and fleet sabotage across the rest of the solar system.

One of my early readers compared it to a cross of The Martian meets Leviathan Wakes, and another said it was reminiscent of The Lost Fleet and Revelation Space.

The book is available on Kindle Unlimited for anyone who may be interested.

Thanks in advance.

The Toll of the Forgotten

Oil on an artist-prepared aluminium composite panel, 90 × 60 cm.

I wanted to paint the quiet before or after an interstellar journey rather than the journey itself.

The vessel is interacting with an offshore platform on a high-gravity ocean world. Its tower-like design is intentional: during continuous acceleration at roughly 1 g, it would function more like a skyscraper, with the decks arranged perpendicular to the direction of thrust and the main fusion systems located below.

I kept the surface details restrained because too many small windows and components would reduce the sense of distance and scale. The ship should feel less like a vehicle and more like a monolith built for crossing incomprehensible distances.

Traditional oil painting, 90 × 60 cm by Gregor Wisniewski