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The no context version is always better IMO. Lets your mind comfortably fill in the blanks.
Stephen King talks about this in "On Writing." He says, basically, if he says "red tablecloth" you all picture a different thing but more or less comparable; he could go on ad nauseum to make sure you picture a SPECIFIC red tablecloth, but then you are just memorizing facts instead of letting your imagination naturally fill in the blanks.
Ironic that Stephen King, of all people, explained best to me why this kind of thing is a bad idea. Very surprised he was okay with the idea.
Ooh, coming out in a couple of days, as soon as Amazon publishes it. I'll be publishing it elsewhere, too. Any specific format you'd like?
Edit - Amazon published it faster than I expected. Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076438T2K I'm working on other stores right now.
Amazon will stream it internationally simultaneously. They've also just added the first two seasons in Ultra HD 4K to the US service, which is great.
https://www.amazon.com/Expanse-Season-Ultra-HD/dp/B01MT0UHLT
The question will be what happens to Season 3. That depends if Amazon buy out Netflix's deal and move the first two seasons to Amazon Prime and can then show Season 3 immediately, or if they simply take over the deal, so Seasons 1-2 will remain on Netflix, Season 3 will air in the autumn and then Season 4 will be on Amazon. Those details haven't been announced yet.
It's currently available on Amazon. The e-book is either free (if you have Kindle Unlimited) or $4, and the print version is $8.
Currently reading "The Story of Your Life and Others", and enjoying every page. Each short story is beautifully written and reads like a Black Mirror episode. One of the best books I've read this year.
Kickstarter link. Six issues are already finished; we're trying to raise money to print a trade paperback. Please support if you can!
If you'd like to read the book digitally, the full series to date is available on comiXology here.
Thanks for checking it out!
Hi, i have worked mostly alone for few years on a game inspired by Star Wars visuals ( mostly 70s scifi artworks ). Its an open world sci-if game on an alien planet, where you explore on your own. If this sounds at least little bit interesting to you, you can download it and play it for free :) I would love to hear your thoughts on the game.
update: I'll keep the sale up as long as this post is on the sub's front page.
Goodreads, if you into that sort of thing: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28261339-astral-fall
Amazon: There's a 50% off flash sale today for a few more hours on Amazon. (But I'm going to extend it because everyone on the genre subs is being so damn cool!) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D30K6AW
Thanks to mod u/kjhatch for helping me out!
You should definitely check out TIMECRIMES. Spanish flick w/ interesting visuals. Also The Jacket with Adrien Brody. More on the psychological side but still talks of time travel. And like everybody else I'll say Primer because look at that diagram explaining the plot: https://tinyurl.com/yaqzyowx
You mean free ebooks ON AMAZON. There's some way better stuff at the Baen free library.
[Also some really great older stuff at Project Gutenberg.](https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_(Bookshelf\))
The best part of these is that you're not stuck with the crappy kindle format.
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
You should reconsider what you are proposing. First off, I doubt you will find someone of quality advice who is willing to (For free) read your rough draft as you go and give you feedback. Furthermore, you should be concentrating on finishing the manuscript so that it is to your standard first and foremost, then you release it to the wild.
Get a first draft under your belt. Then set it aside for a few weeks, come back and edit the snot out of it. There is a better than average chance it won't be any good, most rough drafts aren't. So edit, edit, edit, edit and then edit some more. At that point grab some beta readers who can take the work as a whole. Your readers aren't going to be getting emails chapter by chapter, so having feedback that way is counter-intuitive to your intended goal. A completed novel.
If you are a new writer than you need practice, and practice is best accomplished alone. Don't look for feedback on the first thing you spit out. If you wanted to play guitar you wouldn't buy one at the store and then go set up in central park for everyone to hear, you sit at home and go over the basics until you have a solid foundation. Writing is no different. Put in the sweat and hard work. Put down a million awkward words, a hundred thousand poorly composed sentences, and a few completed stories. Then shove those into a shoebox to look back on later once you're a best seller and laugh at all the trial and error it took to get where you are.
Go to /r/writing or /r/scifiwriters and you'll get the same advice.
Cool ideas and execution but you need some better human anatomy/physics references, maybe get yourself a pose-able wooden figure so that you can work things out more clearly.
Unless people have some kind of 360deg lumbar modification in the future?
My favorite SF novel is The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It's a great example of many things done right:
Simple prose writing is most effective. He avoids flowery language, and rough language too, only using it when absolutely necessary and contributing.
Hard SF concepts (relativistic space travel, interplanetary combat) are never the main point, but simply environments for the characters to live and develop in. He explores the strain that relativity has on human beings very well, but does it quickly and sharply. The effect is a slap with lingering pain that the character has to live with.
The entire story is a metaphor for the author's experience during the Vietnam war. The concept that a space soldier fighting on different worlds, with different air, different gravity, where nothing is familiar, is just as jarring as a Vietnam vet returning to America after the war. If you can anchor your story on something realistic and use science to amplify/explore the human condition you will make your story better.
Character and setting told through action. It's a first-person narrative, so it's easier to describe things as they happen. It also helps the reader identify and feel with the character. The combat settings also drive the story, forward with relentless motion under fire, and foreboding when pinned down or waiting between battles.
These are the kinds of things that /u/Oznog99/ and /u/smokingpen/ are talking about. I'd also recommend Stephen King's On Writing, even though it's not about science fiction, it's a treasure trove of great advice from a master of many genres.
Good news! Altered Carbon is so far past pre-production it going to be on Netflix in 5 weeks. They did their filming last year and probably finished production months ago. They might have a tiny bit of post-production left (like SFX on big shots), but I'd be shocked if there was much at this point.
Snow Crash, on the other hand, hasn't even had rumors for months and didn't have enough people attached to the project for me to believe it is going to happen at all.
I would read/listen in publishing order, not narrative order. Foundation was first published in 1942, and then made into a trilogy with Foundation and Empire in 1952 and Second Foundation in 1953. Even though Prelude to Foundation a prequel, by the time it was published in 1988, it was just sort of assumed that everyone knew what happened in the original trilogy.
Keep in mind that although the original trilogy is universally acclaimed as a masterpiece, it is of its time, and some of the social attitudes of the 1940s and 1950s don't necessarily play well today. (Though it's certainly not as bad as young adult entertainment of the era.)
If you agree with me about the order, the one to start with is here.
I wonder if he got the idea from hearing the fun story:
Man In The Empty Suit
https://www.audible.com/pd/Man-in-the-Empty-Suit-Audiobook/B00B7MNEV2
Publisher's Summary
Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and drinks 12-year-old Scotch (lots of it) with all the other versions of who he has been and who he will be. Sure, the party is the same year after year, but at least it's one party where he can really, well, be himself.
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H. Beam Piper, "Space Vikings"
Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
Michael Swanwick, "Bones of the Earth"
Charles Sheffield, "Between the Strokes of Night"
Niven/Pournelle, "The Mote in God's Eye"
Also, here is a link of the compiled results when I asked a similar question on r/PrintSF.
The premiere date has not been announced, but supposedly it's this year. I loved RKM's books, so I'm been waiting for it since the announcement last year. The first estimates put it at early 2017, but casting news is still coming out, so they must not be done filming yet. My guess is late Summer/early Fall.
The page for it is here: https://www.netflix.com/title/80097140, with an add to list button. The placeholder description text has been removed, but the cache has it:
> A new series set 700 years in the future, when the human mind is digitized and downloaded from body to body. Based on the classic cyberpunk novel.
I keep getting a "not found" error page. I was able to fix it by modifying the subscribe button link to "https://buttondown.email/mikebuntart". The button on your subscribe page goes to "https://buttondown.email/mikebuntart.". Notice the period at the end.
I like what you have going on though. I love comics and science fiction. I'm so glad I came across this yesterday and I look forward to reading more of Stratum.
Made entirely with Blender and other free software programs... and a buttload of talent, of course.
All the resources and stuff they developed specifically for the film is then incorporated into the main program. This time around they were experimenting with motion tracking.
Website for Tears of Steel is here. You can download the film, subtitles, soundtrack and resources.
Yeah, I'm a fan.
Oh, hell. It's back down. I just checked http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/best-sci-fi.com.html
Sending another support ticket to my hosting provider.
Grumble grumble.
To tide you over, here's the list without any descriptions:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne – 1870 - Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka – 2004 = Ōru Yū Nīdo Izu Kiru
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami – 1999 - Batoru Rowaiaru
Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Piñol – 2002 - La pell freda
Empire of The Ants by Bernard Werber – 1991 - Les Fourmis
The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung – 2009 - *盛世—中國2013年
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino – 1972 - Le città invisibili
Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu – 1973 - Nihon Chinbotsu
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges – 1962
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky – 2005 - Метро 2033
Nest of Worlds by Marek S. Huberath – 1999 - Gniazdo światów
Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui – 1993 - Papurika
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky – 1979 - Пикник на обочине
Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse – 2011 - Hyakuoku no Hiru to Sen’oku no Yoru
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach* – 1995 - Die Haarteppichknüpfer
The Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle* – 1963 - La Planete des Singes
The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem – 1957 - Dzienniki gwiazdowe
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet by Vandana Singh – 2009
The World of the End by Ofir Touché Gafla – 2013
Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer – 2013
Utopia by Khaled Towfik – 2010 - يوتوبيا
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek – 1936 - Válka s mloky
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin – 1924 - *Мы
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
It’s an amazing mix of historical fiction, thriller and just enough magic realism (or fantasy if you prefer). Absolutely fascinating and full of wonderful language.
I highly recommend it.
There's a book called Ship Star by Larry Niven. It's not the best book I've ever read, but humans are trapped on a giant spaceship that's kind of like a planet and pursued by a dominant alien species. amazon link
Thanks, /u/jimjay, the name of the book is The Immense Center by Michael Allen Williamson. If you buy the print version, Amazon will do Kindle Match and give you a free Kindle version. But, if you want to save money, you buy just the Kindle version for less.
https://smile.amazon.com/Immense-Center-Michael-Allen-Williamson/dp/0692574492?sa-no-redirect=1
There has recently been a volume 1 of the Dark Horse comic run released in the UK. It contains the first three stories, including the glorious full colour Nightmare Asylum arc. When i first read that as a kid I suddenly discovered that there were comics beyond superheroes and the Beano.
Might have a release in other parts of the world?
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There is the Amazon link. Sorry for not including it in the original post. I didn't want to leave a bad taste in people's mouth and self-promote too much. Of course that's a large part in this post, but I really do just love conversing with readers :)
As per usual I'm late to the party :P
So greetings Wendy!
Fellow novelist here, suffering from writer's block lately in every project I come up with.
I have read King's On Writing too, and Dean Koontz was also the author who influenced me to get started with writing my own stories, but every single time when I write on my own, I get stuck roughly 3-5 chapters into the story.
I guess you could say I sort of feel like I lost my way on where I want the story to go, and I start second guessing myself.
Did you had this issue at all, and if so how you combat it?
ps: Portland is an odd place, nearly every author who wrote anything that speaks to me is living there...Must be some sort of cosmic focal point! :P
When my Dad saw the film he described it as "Carl Sagan meets Timothy Leary" and I thought that was a completely apt description. :) Yours fits well too.
The feature film is kind of hard to describe. In simple plot terms, it's a road trip from Point A to Point B. However, it's told in a very unorthodox style much more similar to a novel. The screenplay has been compared to both Slaughter House Five and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement!
I love this story, so I'm gonna copy-paste my response in the other thread:
If anyone wants to read it, it's on Gutenburg.
It's actually a hilarious satire about works like The Odyssey and The Illiad. The title pretty much translates to "True Story Bro" and Lucian's whole point was "you realize we can all make up mythology, right? No one's stopping you!"
The theme of human obsolescence continues to relevant, and it will until the coming robot apocalypse (see /r/automate). Also, be sure to check out Smith's classic story, <em>Scanners live in Vain</em> (1950) for a non-robotic take on the subject.
There are a few similar, I will try not to "spoil", so I'm just gonna name them.
There are 4 I can think of, two that predate the Borg:
Doctor Who - Daleks predate the borg by decades, first appearing in the second Doctor Who serial, "The Daleks" which was so popular it was adapted into a movie Doctor Who and the Daleks.
Doctor Who - Cybermen (pre-dates the "borg" by close to 3 decades), first appearing in William Hartnell's final serial "The Tenth Planet". I suspect inspired the borg the more than the Daleks. And 2 that were created afterwards:
Lexx - Mantrid Drones
Stargate - Replicators
ABEbooks.com has always been useful for me. There's also a paperback published by Charles Tuttle in the 70s apparently. Some of these sellers have reasonable shipping or are in Europe.
Librivox.org has free audio books from many genres including science fiction. From what I've seen, their titles tend to be books that are out of copyright (i.e. older), and read by amateurs. https://librivox.org/
I've also found that some old-time radio dramas are pretty interesting. They usually have multiple voice actors and sound effects. There are several websites that offer these for free.
Star Surgeon by Alan E Norse. It's not related to the same title from the Sector General series.
Hospital Earth sends out human Doctor teams to provide medical services in various star systems. An alien being tries to break through discrimination and gain a position as a star surgeon. The overall concept is a bit like interstellar interns. It's from 1959 and the discrimination issues kind of relate to that time.
Here's a link to the audio book if you want to sample it. It's a public domain audio recording at Librivox.
That was the idea, really. He's unlikely to make up the money he's spent shipping the book to an obscure country in a far away place. It's a lot of money for a debut author and I don't know if the exposure is enough to justify it. I am grateful he went out of his way to make sure the book reaches me despite this, thus I feel thankful and want to bring attention to it.
For anyone reading this, see for yourself if it's something you'd be into. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20692927-a-sword-into-darkness?from_search=true
I used this calculator. It lets you play with different settings. Set the time at number of light years and speed at that of light. This gives you the accelaration for the halfway point where you start to break. Thus travel time is double of the set time. Just remember in reality you won't come close to light speed ever. Omni Acceleartion Calculator
Print your own. I see no value in what they are doing except as a money grab. Asking for money to kickstart a scam is icing on the cake.
You can find public domain Sci-fi all over amazon that people are "publishing" for a profit.
It's fairly good. I remember it had some clunky mechanics and for some mindbogglingly stupid reason you couldn't go back to previous chapters, but overall it was fairly pleasant.
Though in my opinion the other Singularity (about the other kind of singularity) is more fun.
When I need stellar distances for my novels, I use Space Engine. It's not a galaxy map specifically, but it's fun to use and the guy gets all his distance data from respected astronomical libraries.
And did I mention it's fun to use?
np man! I'm glad to find someone who's actually interested in reading and watching. You can get Vol II & III from Netflix http://www.canistream.it/search/term/Yukikaze Vol I can be had for $4 used online. Failing those, there are quite a few clips on YouTube.
I'd like to recommend a book you might find helpful if you continue on this path - which I hope you do. We need good artists.
Bridgeman's Constructive Anatomy Constructive Anatomy (Dover Anatomy for Artists): George B. Bridgman: 8601300292441: Amazon.com: Books
A century old; many comic illustrators' secret weapon. Pretty accurate anatomy. He reduces the human form to blocks and masses that are articulated. He also has a book of 100 hands. The Book of a Hundred Hands (Dover Anatomy for Artists): George B. Bridgman: 9780486227092: Amazon.com: Books
I've said it before and I'll say it again, First Contact is a good "Hollywood" movie but I feel it's flawed as a Star Trek film. Apart from the fact that it suffers from Plot A/Plot B back-and-forth, it continues the "Action Picard" of Generations. Up until now I thought the biggest plothole it had was: how does Picard sense the Borg halfway across the quadrant but not aboard his own ship? But now that you mention it, you're right OP!
Honestly they should have used the chronology from Star Trek: Spaceflight Chronology one of the best unofficial chronologies. The timeline according to the book is that Earth had explored the local system after WW3/Eugenics Wars and explorers from earth traelling with primitive impulse drive discovered the alien civilization of the Alpha Centuarans and that's where they met Zephram Cochrane who, with their help, cracked warp drive (or something like that, I'm recalling from memory). This would have been more authentic and maintained the canon of TOS' episode where they established that Zephram Cochrane was "of Alpha Cenauri."
The chronology of First Contact and this devastated Earth still reeling from WW3 advancing into space flight and exploration just doesn't jibe with me.
As the title suggests, The second book of my series, The Rebirth is on a free promo! Both books are available on Amazon Kindle. Their price: $2.99. (The promo book is free for a limited time) The series will continue on, so stay tuned! Happy Reading! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IG3JMHY#navbar
There's a Doctor Who spinoff specifically for kids, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and a new one coming out called Class.
There a large number of small time authors out there you might want to check out as well. Amazon has a large number of these. I just completed this novel, I enjoyed it enough to check out the authors other books.
Money is just an instrument of exchange and to store value. Without a currency people would need to barter. Check Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy.
im waiting for my copy in spanish, i have the barnes and noble version but i prefer reading books in my native language, HOPEFULLY the translation is not butchered like others i've bought in the past.
It's not based on the RPG in that sense. Both the RPG and the series are based on the original art book:
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Loop-Simon-St%C3%A5lenhag/dp/1624650392
I don't have this book myself, so I can't give exact details, but:
The art book came first, it's an art book but with some story or narrative elements. (As I said, I don't have it, so I'm just going by the above description.)
There was then a kickstarter to turn it into an RPG.
The new Amazon series is, afaik, based on the original art book again, not the RPG.
Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Stories Inspired by Microsoft sounds like a dirge, but it's got some excellent stories by top tier authors, I reviewed it as a four stars effort. And it's free on Kindle!
I read a book called Colony Fleet about a group of paraterraformed asteroids that when to another system to try and colonize a new world. https://www.amazon.com/Colony-Fleet-Susan-R-Matthews/dp/038080316X Pretty good book.
I have the perfect recommendation for you.
Jump into the eyes of Carson Paul as he pledges to join the global military to learn the mystery behind his parent's disappearance. To do so, Carson must venture into the forbidden territory of Alannah and enter The Proving: A fifty mile course through treacherous terrains, carnivous predators, and worst of all, five hundred other competitors.
It's only .99 cents for a limited time.
Sure! I'll do more than that. It's a fun, pop sci-fi survival/adventure set in the heart of Texas. It's got action, mystery, and prehistoric creatures.
Here's a quick blurb: When the people of Waxahachie, Texas wake to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world and surrounded by an unfamiliar and dangerous wilderness, they must work together to survive and unravel the cause of the mysterious 'seam'.
If you like disaster stories or books like Under the Dome, then you may like this.
It's the first in the series I am writing called 'Texas Accelerated.'
It's free on Kindle Unlimited if you have it! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKLT4LW4
Thanks for letting me know n3urochrome. The correct version is https://www.amazon.com/Last-First-Men-Visual-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B0BKR5BYH8/.
I've just finished wrangling with support and the incorrect version should be cancelled. The cancellation should propagate out soon.
Thanks for tipping me off!
Pick up a copy of The Time Traveler’s Almanac
800+ pages of crazy there.
Very cool!
the word you are looking for is 'Unabridged'
I LOVE Star Maker, and will check this out.
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https://www.amazon.ca/Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep-Omnibus/dp/1608867846
There is also this, in the same vein, but before A.I. tools. I own a set of 5 hardcovers that contain it all.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9VM3VM3
Bill Arena was in one of life’s deep valleys. His law practice was floundering, his marriage was going south, and his children still needed his help as they entered adulthood. Out of his past comes a high school friend, now a brilliant physicist, who has expanded on Einstein’s theory of relativity and invented a machine which makes time travel possible. This device is also capable of leaving terrible effects upon the world.
The control of the machine passes to Bill, who chooses to use it for his own personal gain, unleashing a chain of unforeseen events that disrupt his life, the life of his family and everyone around him. Bill wrestles with how to cope with the havoc caused by his fall from grace.
Single fastest click-purchase this year, you had me at the word "full" (the art looks gorgeous, btw).
Here's the Amazon link for U.S. readers (hope it's ok to post this).
I’ve only read the first book, but I thoroughly enjoyed Warstrider: All Six Novels and An Original Novella. I think this is right up your alley.
Not so difficult, but a bit pricey. Looks like used mass market paperbacks run around $40-100 right now.
Thriftbooks has one for a bit less than $40, and Amazon has them from about $50-$95
Saturnalia by Grant Callin takes place entirely in the solar system: orbital space colonies, outposts near Saturn, and a good story with fun characters. The sequel goes to another system.
https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Alien-Overlords-Tejun-Fowler/dp/198454294X
I'm not the author so this is not self promotion. It's in my kindle library I will get to it eventually i have like three books In front of it.
Hey guys happy Monday!
After two years of pouring blood, sweat and tears into the paper (and occasionally, words), I completed my alternate history trilogy, a sci-fi/thriller set in Eastern Africa and on an exoplanet named Hemos.
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"The King. The Queen. The Fools.
On earth, a visit from a traveler of the stars triggers a series of extinction level events.
A thrilling chronicle of deception, faith, and redemption."
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I'm still trying to flush the thousands of coffee cups out of my system so forgive me for being a bit jittery but... that was a great experience.
You can find me here (sign up to my newsletter, it's free!):
I bought the book last year and intend to get to it one of these days.
Thanks for the link to The Things as well. It sounds as though it makes an interesting supplemental to the original source material, and I'll try to check it out as well.
The four Cities in Flight books are:
- They Shall Have Stars (aka Year 2018!)
- A Life for the Stars
- Earthman, Come Home
- The Triumph of Time (aka A Clash of Cymbals)
There is also an omnibus edition Cities in Flight.
IMHO the first one is rather tedious, and is more about how the situation came about in the first place. The latter three are about the adventures of New York as it flies among the stars.
The <strong>Omnibus edition</strong> is available in eBook format for Kindle for twelve bucks.
There are various used paperback copies available on www.bookfinder.com
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Thank you for encouraging me to keep writing! I think this is the only story I've ever made that I am truly, deeply proud of and satisfied with. You all pushed me to keep going, so thank you!
Link to book for those interested:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09ZQ9P6JV/ref=dbs\_a\_def\_rwt\_bibl\_vppi\_i0
Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation
C.J. Cherryh's Chanur saga
David Brin, Brightness Reef
My own Ansible: A Thousand Faces is about first contact with various forms of very alien alien life
The inhumi in Gene Wolfe's On Blue's Waters and In Green's Jungles are fascinating.
In film, look to Arrival and Solaris.
The pilots are all available on Universal's DVD set of Season 1 (US Region 1).
I would highly recommend this book based on the concept art of Ralph Macquarie. Kevin j Anderson created some really cool scientist/explorer characters (some even force adept) to tie together all the wild ideas Macquarie came up with. More science than violence in his stories. One of my favorite books of all time.
The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (Star Wars) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553374842/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_DSRGVWSN73H5RXYGE54Q
Shameless self-promotion: my own book, "Ascendant", available on Amazon and Audible. If you're interested, I can send a promo code for a free copy of the audiobook.
This is a near-future military SF novel, also available in print and ebook. Here's the Amazon link if you'd like to read reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Ascendant-J-S-Devey/dp/1980259194
If this sounds like your jam, I have 20 free audiobook copies to give out - just trying to get the word out. Please email me at if interested.
Seems to be out of print, wasn't on Internet archive either. I think your only option is ordering. $8 on Amazon: Protector (Known Space) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345353129/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_71ZXJ3F98MW31EP2QTP1
Or finding a used copy
For those curious, I found the Netflix version of Altered Carbon was pretty faithful to the novel. I read it via Audible, which was very well narrated.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Altered-Carbon-Audiobook/B002V1O6X8
You can't change the past. A time machine creates/is part of a closed timelike loop; if an object appeared in the past from nowhere, that means it was sent back from the future, and nothing you can do will break the timeline, but you can't change it again, either. It's already changed. So if you could have come back, you already would have.
The whole point of describing time as a dimension is that from "above", you would see that everything has happened already.
The 5th Dimension was a disco band: https://youtu.be/VlrQ-bOzpkQ
In actual physics, there's currently thought to be 11 dimensions, of which only 3+1 are large enough to be useful.
But taking your premise seriously for one second:
A higher-dimensional figure passing through a lower-dimensional one would tear it apart. Go back to Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A sphere has infinitely more mass than a two-dimensional planar circle; it's not a bowling ball through tissue paper, it's a bowling ball through something thinner than a single atom.
So if the machine goes into in "5 dimensions", it either flies off into space unobstructed by mere 3-dimensional gravity and matter and you die in the cold vacuum. Or it tears through the Earth like popping a soap bubble, and billions die instantly, the rest die when the exposed magma superheats the atmosphere.
Fun little project you're working on here. The medium you're using has a tonne of potential and as a writer/film maker I'm super excited about all the creative ways you can use it. The story is okay, I feel like the world you're building could be more interesting if you doubled down on Lena's character, gave her more quirks and idiosyncrasies, frequent typos, that kind of stuff. The multiple Lenas you introduce at the climax is another element that could be used creatively, maybe after the first Lena is deactivated another one figures out the conspiracy and contacts you 10 hours later. Maybe multiple Lenas are messaging you at once, maybe you'll be put into a situation where you'll have to lie to one of them or withhold information. I also feel like reading a chat log between two people from the future would be a great way to do some subtle world building.
I'm rambling a little but bottom line is keep doing what you're doing and absolutely do not be afraid to experiment. There are a few pieces of media I think you might be interested in checking out, I'll link them.
I think that understanding copyright is what is needed here.
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Got it. I think you're talking about religious themes running through science fiction material. (I know that's just me rephrasing what you're saying).
Have you ever read Hyperion series? This is my favorite sci fi series EVER...and it runs some very explicit theology through it...one of the leading forces in the book is essentially the futuristic version of the church...The Church of Final Atonement...as well as the Jesuits.
From a high level it shows no matter how far we are into the future, humans need religion to survive...because it serves as a guiding force and philosophy as to how to live our lives...and it also speaks directly to the fact we never fully "figure everything out"...as displayed in Hyperion.
side note: Ironically enough, I am actually a sci fi author myself...and the story I wrote...contains some theological themes...the story blends sci fi with educational content (kind of...learn to code through sci fi vibe)...and in the story I created a religion for the alien culture, called Ld'Shab...which is a religion that worships learning...and a mysterious "learning force" known as the Utma.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JY2XGCR if you wanted to check it out
It does. I have.
First two results:
Wikipedia:
>In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation. The specific nature of a MacGuffin is typically unimportant to the overall plot.
TVTropes:
>A MacGuffin (a.k.a. McGuffin or maguffin) is a term for a motivating element in a story that is used to drive the plot. It serves no further purpose. It won't pop up again later, it won't explain the ending, it won't do anything except possibly distract you while you try to figure out its significance.
Those are literally the opening sentences of each article.
And here, also from the first page of google results, is a lengthy quote from Hitchcock, who coined the term itself:
>The main thing I’ve learned over the years is that the MacGuffin is nothing. I’m convinced of this, but I find it very difficult to prove it to others. My best MacGuffin, and by that I mean the emptiest, the most nonexistent, and the most absurd, is the one we used in North by Northwest. The picture is about espionage, and the only question that’s raised in the story is to find out what the spies are after. Well, during the scene at the Chicago airport, the Central Intelligence man explains the whole situation to Cary Grant, and Grant, referring to the James Mason character, asks, “What does he do?” The counterintelligence man replies, “Let’s just say that he’s an importer and exporter.” “But what does he sell?” “Oh, just government secrets!” is the answer. Here, you see, the MacGuffin has been boiled down to its purest expression: nothing at all!
What, in your eyes, was I supposed to be finding instead when I googled?
If you are interested in short stories from the past look at theLibrivox series of "Short Science Fiction." They are currently up to about volume 63.
These are anthologies of SF short stories from about 1930-1960 that is out of copyright. There is a lot of interesting stuff in there. Some of the readers are a bit ropy, some are excellent.l Definitely worth trying - and its free and downloadable.
You're really hitting all the snags! haha
I'm not too sure what's going on there. For payment we use Stripe (https://stripe.com/gb) and they provide this card form (https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js/elements/quickstart) which we're using. They do the postcode validation on their side so it's unfortunately out of my hands.
I had someone report something similar in the UK, but it seemed to have fixed itself after a reload. I'm sorry I can't be anymore helpful and I'm really grateful you keep trying!
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