Must watch classic SciFi movies?
So far this year I have watched Metropolis and Zardoz for the first time. What are some other must see SciFi movies?
mpax, New to mastodon. Looking for #scifi and #sciencefiction fans to talk to. :)
johnshirley2024, (edited ) Good cyberpunk touch for cybermonday. A free book pirated by its authors. For many years in print, we decided to allow it to be free online...
The MIRRORSHADES cyberpunk story collection, the original, with stories by William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear, Lew Shiner, Marc Laidlaw, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling, Tom Maddox, Paul Di Filippo , James Patrick Kelly, and, yes, me--
https://rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/
#scifi #sff #ebook #books #ebook #ebooks
Did I mention it's free?
inkican,
johnhattan, @johnshirley2024 is there an epub available anywhere? That's the best way to get the text on my little e-paper reader gizmo.
selzero, Tributes to Metropolis (1927) within Bladerunner (1982) both movies giants of their era, revolutionizing cinema, esthetics, and story telling.
#scifi #cyberpunk #movies #moviestodon #oncinema #OCATC #PopcornClassic #FiveBags #AndALittleAndroid
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So far this year I have watched Metropolis and Zardoz for the first time. What are some other must see SciFi movies?
Located primarily in cyberspace, Sistah Scifi is among the first Black-owned bookstores focused on science fiction and fantasy in the country.
jbzfn, 🪦 Vernor Vinge, author of many influential hard science fiction works, died March 20 at the age of 79.
NickEast, I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔
@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing
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icastico, @NickEast @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing
I always think of Margaret Cavendish as the first to write a science fiction novel - The Blazing World (1666).
alexf24, @NickEast @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing
True. What they don't usually tell you is that her husband Percy Shelley, was an established poet and novelist but without much success early on. He was not too happy when his young wife, got acclaim and fame - more than his - on her first novel.
DUNE: PART TWOThe saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on “Dune: Part Two,” the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated nove...
danyork, “Hope begins with the ability to imagine alternatives. And there is always an alternative.” - part of a brilliant graduation address by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) to York University.
A great piece about science fiction, optimism, pessimism, fatalism, humane agency, Luddites, tech bros, inevitability, and the need to always seek alternatives… and to find hope.
Read the whole thing: https://doctorow.medium.com/there-is-always-an-alternative-e55fd414d1fd
equalitysiren, "Optimism is the belief that things will get better, no matter what we do.
Pessimism is the belief that things will get worse, no matter what we do.Both deny human agency, that we can intervene to change things.
The belief that nothing will change — that nothing can change — is the wrecker’s most powerful weapon. After all, if you can convince people that nothing can be done, they won’t try to do anything." - Cory Doctorow's NY Univ. graduation address
Great read!
blair_fix, 'Then his face fell. He hung up and said, “He says they only teach literature.”'
The farther you go in academia, the more you realize that it has weird priorities ... it's a very inward looking prestige hierarchy.
I think many students realize this during grad school. Looks like Cory was unlucky (or perhaps lucky?) enough to see the inside of the sausage early on.
johnshirley2024, Okay so NOW this FREE cyberpunk collection (which is so old you can see on the cover that it was only $3.50 for a paperback copy), is available as an #ebook download (FREE, I said!) as well as just opening it to read on your device. If you want it in that format, you can go there and try out the two ebook download systems it's offered on, let me know if it's not working.
mjgardner, @johnshirley2024 @genehack N.B. #Amazon’s current “Send to #Kindle” system no longer accepts MOBI files but does accept EPUB: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/
So you probably can offer just one #eBook format.
westerling, Thank you.
erosdiscordia, Suppose it's time for me to stop being nervous, and just go ahead and tell you lovely Mastodon people:
I have been sharing my science fiction story, "Radiant Inverse", on Royal Road (a serial fiction website) for the past couple of weeks.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72693/radiant-inverse-a-science-fantasy-adventure
There are already 13 chapters up. :rainbowdance:
I would love it if you'd check it out. No need for an account -- but accounts can comment and leave reviews!
:boostRequest:
inkican,
kathimmel, @erosdiscordia i've only just noticed this post. can't wait to have a read! x
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Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?...
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It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?...
johnshirley2024, I'm in this huge CYBERPUNK book, along with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic and lots more.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk arrives September 26. Editor Jared Shurin tells File 770, “As with any attempt at a definitive collection, I suspect (and hope) it will provoke conversation!”
At over a thousand pages it is the largest anthology of the genre, with authors from over two dozen countries. #bookstodon #sff #scifi #books
jbond, @johnshirley2024 @pluralistic Right now, Amazon seem to think it's paperback only. Actually that's UK. It is available as Kindle in the USA. So either the electronic version is stuck mid-atlantic or there's some publishing rights nonsense.
johnshirley2024, @jbond @pluralistic There's a hardcover in the USA too. I'm seeing the kindle on amazon here, yeah, and it doesn't say it's only in the usa but maybe it's not in like france et al because it's not translated yet?
TheSpaceshipper, Denis Villeneuve's Arrival was released 7 years ago today.
I love this "close encounter"."A linguist is recruited by the army to communicate with an extraterrestrial life-form after twelve mysterious spaceships land around the world."
#scifi #arrival #movie #spaceship #alien #villeneuve
WTL, @TheSpaceshipper Fantastic and beautiful film.
peturdainn, @TheSpaceshipper one of my favorites
TheSpaceshipper, David Lynch's Dune premiered 39 years ago today.
From model to screen...
#scifi #dune #davidlynch #frankherbert #spaceship #miniature #model
TheSpaceshipper, Star Trek (Season 1, "Space Seed", 1967): SS Botany Bay & USS Enterprise, models
#scifi #tvshow #startrek #enterprise #model #miniature
golgaloth, Starbucks in Starbucks.
Strider,
SpaceAce, @golgaloth but holding a stogie like Face!
TheSpaceshipper, Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out was released 34 years ago today.
This short will soon receive a sequel of sorts with Wallace and Gromit in the Grand Getaway, a VR game.
#scifi #animation #wallace #gromit #aardman #stopmotion #rocket
grumpasaurus, @TheSpaceshipper I have yet to try wensleydale.
A Quiet Place: Day One Trailer 2 showcases the sequel's intense and thrilling storyline, as the Abbott family continues their fight for survival in a world filled with deadly creatures. The trailer highlights new characters, locations, and the ongoing struggle to maintain silence. With a release date of May 28, 2021, fans...
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mattkenworthy, A #scifi question: are there any novels set in protoplanetary disk systems? Everyone seems to go for fully formed planets, but you could play an excellent game of hide and seek in the Hill sphere of a forming gas giant, no?
astrokiwi, @mattkenworthy I reread Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep recently and one part is set in a debris disk...