"Three young scientists travel around the country in the 25th century after the world has been ravaged by pollution. In their hi-tech RV (called Ark II), they study the land and help out those in need."
You'd have a devilish conundrum at the heart of the show with the occupants of the hi-tech transportation device living easy lives in comparison to the wreckage around them. You'd have a Star Trek-filled landscape of tough moral decisions. You would also have modern relevance with a world in which we have NOT been good stewards and our youth have to take charge.
In retrospect it was astonishing that there was a TV show for kids with a post-apocalyptic premise. On top of that, the post-apocalyptic fiction we were getting, just a few years later, often favored rebuilding the world of capitalist economic progress, just with a few reforms.
Ark II in general, and that episode in particular, directly questioned what we understand progress to mean.
Okay, #Bookstodon, I am going to shout this into the void and see if my next read might manifest itself.
These are four series that I’ve read in the last decade or so that have really blown my mind:
The Broken Earth, by the incomparable NK Jemisin.
The Machineries of Empire, by Yoon Ha Lee.
Teixcaalan, by Arkady Martine.
Imperial Raadch, by Ann Leckie.
Reading that list, is there a series of books that I absolutely have to read? Any recs spring to mind? #BookRecommendations#SciFi
@whknott Despite his best efforts, Seymour the Immortal Tortoise could not make it past the Gates of Happenstance guarding the home of Chaos. Whom he dated. Until Chaos' father got wind of the whole thing.
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At the Council of Vadodara they discussed the coming war. Looking out on the Dancing Sea, Jolon da Rajkot spoke, "The Jalan Bani king Ashoka of the Vast is expanding his reach and he threatens our kingdom. We are weak and unprepared. Ashoka will attack by sea. We've called for aid but none answered. I prayed to the Turtle god Kurma, but I fear he will not come; we have not paid him proper homage."
A watchman ran into the council hall, “Wave upon wave! Kurma is true; he comes!”
@whknott ... Alright everybody. A little quiet so I can get through this, and we'll get back to work. I want all of you to know one thing. I get it. I get that you're a gazillion miles from family or friends, or both. I know what crap conditions we have, and pressure to perform can be brutal.
I will not, however, explain to the suits that you're working through injuries on a daily basis. The little stunt with Gorsach getting hung up in a gen core and losing a leg? That's your 3rd leg in 7 days!
Tonight's viewing.
I will try very hard not to go into linguistic anthropology nerd mode afterwards but I can't promise anything. #NowShowing#Arrival#SciFi#WordNerd
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When Lenny pulled up half the fucking PD was there. "She says she knows you" She did look familiar, a street kid? "Ah, he don't, get her outta here" Her eyes pleaded as grinning cops laid hands on her. "Wait!" He could see where she'd began on the wall of his store, "Let her finish, if it's good, no charges"
Her electric brush wove, trance-like the graffiti took form, mystic; men watched speechless.
Heart thumping; her life depended on it this time.
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There were One-leggers on the ground and dragons in the sky; the AI apocalypse created the beasts, collapsed human civilization, and were determined to end human kind. And there was Sam in his junkyard mini-tank, determined to face them. Sam was the grittiest, meanest, most hardened and battle-tested seven-year-old warrior in the world. He’d learned his craft from ageing teenage mutant ninja masters. It all came down to one truth; if they wanted his mom, they’d have to go through him first.
Though the pounding from blasters had never ended during all of the years of Anga's war, it had only just come to Rappha. As the first onslaught began, Mick grinned. She had a new chair. Not a wheelchair. A beast!
Wheels replaced by tracks, rails by armor, the kid emerged from her underground lair/machine shop more than ready.
"Shields up! Charge proton beam!" It obeyed as she effortlessly guided that beastly chair out onto the street. "Woo-hoo!"
Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.
What thing is being denounced? Specifically, and exactly, what is being denounced?
Are you conflating the Bible with Christianity? The twain shall never meet.
More than half of the Bible was written and in circulation 900-1500 years before the existence of Christianity.
If you read the Bible without Christian blinders on, it is plain that the Bible condemns Christianity and all other religions as idolatry. Rather the Bible authors call men to worship God in spirit and truth without regard to a priesthood or place.
This dramatization shows a recorded event from the Bible demonstrating what Jesus taught about the end of religion:
I've been trying to #read more #scifi lately. I'm a slow reader so it's slow going, but I've been having fun and exploring both old and new, classics and award winners, authors I know and others I don't. As you might guess, it's a mixed bag, but mostly positive as I've been sticking mainly with highly recommended works. Given this is #October, I've decided to finally read #Frankenstein. That's right, I've never read it all the way through. Maybe this time I'll finish it.
@mlawton@WTL@tuckerteague Yes, they are gems indeed. If you liked the third book, the fourth is closer to that in style than to the first and second. I read it quickly and enjoyed it very much.