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i wholly recommend Children of Time i'm now reading sequel children of ruin, and it's giving me some Iain M. Banks vibes. the writer is English, too, so that helps with that (he writes it 'kilometre') i could explain a bit more, but that would spoil a wee bit that's my thoughts. any other favs people have? |
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just about to order the remaining alastair reynolds novels, 1 from revelation space and two sequels to the prefect. they never were translated and i recently found out about those, which were also published a bit later. theyre all set in the same universe, but the prefect has more elements of a sci fi noir detective story, while his other novels focus on exploration, action and adventure. currently rereading the prefect, to get back into it. i loved his world, all the advancements, augementations and his storytelling in general. just the right amount of action and lil bit of kinkyness too. when i think of playing a videogame like cyberpunk, his universe would be the bar, to be measured with. |
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i praised reynolds a while back, along with richard morgans altered carbon, which feels more like a action movie, short read. theyve turned that one into a netflix show, which is executed quite well. they could have cut down on the torture scenes a bit though, thats something i quickly read over, when in tv they made me turn off and rewatch later. broke the flow for me. and it took a whie til the show got really interesting, but i really like the cast and visuals, especially the ai hotel. perfect. i wish though they had elaborated more of the details of the world, because they are what made this setting so thrilling for me. |
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consider phleabas is still on my list. started off well, but i hardly finished a book, project or basically anything the past decade. too many other things breaking the focus and keeping me off :/ im reading much faster this winter and i enjoy it more again. in the daylight of summer i prefered graphic novels though. mostly sci fi aswell. Aquablue (old, used versions) Cyann (same) Orbital plus i spent lots of time refeshing my french. |
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i've read about Alastair Reynolds but haven't read him yet cool: French, how do you go about refreshing that? reading books as well, for instance? i'm trying to read 21st century SF now. preferably lots of authors, though i'm also don't try to overhurry and like burn out. so i want to also read regular fiction, for instance. Octavis Butler was a nice in between, in that regard. she does really write SF, but it's near future, so also rooted in a familiair society Adrian Tchaikovsky is a zoologist, and really loves animals, is something i do want to spoil. to hopefully get people interested. these animals can quite whimsical, is what made me think of Iain M. Banks. |
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i sometimes regret reading M. Banks, because i also got stuck in these novels and then didn't read for like half a year, time i could have spend on other books. and with Use of Weapons, that one was small, so i was like: 'come on, read on' to myself. but then i didn't get at all what i'd read. |
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best scifi novel i've read in the past coupleo years is the sparrow by mary doria russel, kind of a theological first contact story, really well done |
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tnx for the tip Contact by Carl Sagan also has a lot of theology in it, in the context of first contact. based on conversation he had with this bishop friend of his |
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in the category vague stuff, i have Annihilation, but that keeps being further down my to-read stack |
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oui, at least i tried reading jules vernes´voyage to the centre of the earth. was way easier getting into than 80 days around the world. i had four years in school, so i knew a lot more. most of it was possible to unlock and add some vocabulary, but i dread tenses a bit. my main way of gettin back in, was using the free app duolingo. i wrote about it here some time. it was good until a major update took the fun out of it for me. instead of unlocking practically all lessons two at a time, before you mastered all of its content and being able to pick them from a comfy tree menu, they reduced it to a linear path. so, lessons you dont like really get force fed and that doesnt work well for me. so, when im not really concentrated i wont continue difficult lessons and new words or grammar, and i am not able to refresh what ive learned or take some easier lessons in between either, because scrolling through that linear path takes ages to find back to a lesson youre interested in and they are not really labeled as well as they were in the tree. fucking idiots if you ask me. |
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have you seen the movie yet? was kinda creepy good. there is one particular (audio-element) scene i couldnt imagine better than its done in the movie, but maybe it was written as well. didnt know it was a novel either. |
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i think jujo read it i'm through my quotum for youtube videos for the day. but for this movie. alex garland is the best |
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these apps are an dystopia in themselves |
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it really helped me getting the back the basics and building from the ground on. lots of achievement and happy feelings while learning, never got that from a textbook. and i was able to use it well in france past summer. bummer its changed that much, but i want to get back into it and visit france again this year. just gotta will myself back and see if i find better ways to implement it into my day. |
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oh right its by vandermeer. picked up shrooms a while ago, hevent read it ye t:( |
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this vid is like jumping late into a party for me. usually i dont wtach videos about movies, simply not interested enough. if im errand on a movie it might interest me what critics or tubes have to say about it. if i truly hate a movie that might be an even stronger motive for me. i may be raving about the aesthetics, the cut, the pacing and the soundtrack and i do like to talk about the movies i see in general, about above things but especially of how it makes me feel and wether the makers got their point across with plot, cut and music. the author of this video may call me a simpleton for that matter if i dont look deeper into the metaphorical realms, but i would just disagree on this. there IS a way of understanding by feeling. and sometimes as in annihalation i didnt get that really. maybe the filmmaker didnt emphasize it enough for me or it is a theme i dont respond to as much as others do, that have gone through similar things. i forgot about everything personal in annihalation after i saw it. sure the events of the cast before and the events after the aliens were traumatic. didnt draw the connections, lol. i may have missed a lot of metaphorical stuff in science fiction. im really just very into the possibilities and how people feel living in a world like that and translate it to the world we actually live in. to me thats good enough for most parts of sci fi. anyway i find it really not that interesting what people say about other peoples videos. it is something i would ather not spend time on. life is too short. ^^ |
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alex garland's movie Ex Machina is yet another feminist film, Shaun explains in yeah, me neither didn't pick up on these themes or symbolisms as well. it's kind of funny how Folding Ideas puts these other reviewers in their place. kind of mean of me. (other funny videos by Folding Ideas are on Suicide Squad and Nostalgia Critic's The Wall. i've watched those several times.) |
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it is good for that 800+ days on Spanish didn't learn me Spanish, though. |
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thats a lot, did you speak spanish with people at some time? naturally, once you´ve gained a sufficient status, it is vital to use it in tv, movies & books and everyday life. its hard to get past being able to shopping groceries and basic stuff otherwise, but apps are a good starting point. i hear there is bots now in which you can practise basic conversation too. id be interested in giving that a try. |
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that seems to be a good thing to use bots for (all other uses will lead to dystopia, to stay on topic ;) though maybe chatting with them will bring them closer to the singularity and so Judgment Day) i learnt it because the family of the wife of my brother speak it. but i didn't get to practice it with them. i was watching casa de papel on day and thought: wait, i should learn spanish, then i would be practicing spanish watching this. but then i didn't go back to watching it, but it didn't appeal that much to me. with 800 days of just duolingo it's too bad anyway. i could blame them talking too fast really, now, i just want to improve my english. i did SAT's English on memrise. not sure if that still exists, seeing . also a bit french and german because i had that in high school i've also done a bit of russian. but yeah, 800+ days pretty much traumatized me on that fecking green owl. after a month or so, i noticed putting off practicing that day, buying a day off with your in game currency, doesn't make your streak go up, what a scam! |
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>> sparrow yeah,liked that one. Im trying to re-buy my old Michael Moorcock collection... not easy |
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accelerando by charles stross is fun, a pretty keen vision of the awful future transhumanists imagine they want |
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The Bible is a pretty good sci-fi book, but an old one. Otherwise I recommend Philip K. Dick. A Scanner Darkly for instance. |
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would be more fantasy, no? the over arching term is 'speculative fiction' btw PKD and Scanner Darkly are awesome. the movie so great as well. maybe better in the book in how funny it is. catches the sad tone well one day i'll retry reading PKD's Valis |
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go back to reddit |
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>> the over arching term is 'speculative fiction' btw this is something that self-hating sci fi nerds renamed things because they thought it would get them more pussy, it didn't |
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this is scientifically proven |
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