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Hard science fiction thread
pic related is the only good thing in this genre to come out in the last 10 years
"Science" Fiction
I started watching Defiance a while ago. The show is decent enough, not as brilliant as some of the other stuff that exists, like Breaking Bad or Daredevil, but fun to watch. However, what bothers me is that I was promised a sci-fi show, and so far, it has nothing science-y on it. I like to imagine the show in a true fantasy setting, and it works.
>Rugged protagonist
Make him a rogue knight.
>Aliens
They all look freaking human anyway, so just make them humans or dwarves or shit.
>Guns
Replace with swords
>Alien invaders
Replace with the army of the dark lord.
And so on. Anyway, my point being, why the fuck do people accept everything as science fiction just because it has starships in it?
Deathworld
Harry Harrison's "Deathworld," got an adaptation in the 90's, I'm going to storytime it, enjoy.
Invitation to /lit/
Hey guys, ambassador from /lit/ here. Considering you're reading books (unless you're a faggot who thinks Mass Effect is Hard SF, in which case you can gtfo), we thought we'd ask you to join us for a cup of tea in our first official crossboard tea party: >>>/lit/7861/
Will you ally with the Brotherhood?
Hello /sf/
Pls post your favorite articles, known theoretical plans and blueprints along speculations about how an actual base on mars would look and operate.
>Gamemaster in Eclipse Phase, first time ever gamemastering
>Group starts off in Lucifer
>Station is shut down
>Security pods begin declaring everyone a criminal and attack on sight, get dispatched by group
>They decide to talk a triad boss named Dragon Feng into granting some people refuge in his restaurant/brothel
>Find out he played a role in hacking the security AGI of the station
>Want to out him
>One player is a shady swarm of invisible microbots
>Whispers to my sister, who is playing a gorilla in the body of a combat robot named Mel, that Dragon Feng intends to eat her pet monkey
>She goes upstairs and confronts him
>Other sister plays a girl with a microfilament sword
>Attacks Dragon Feng
>Critical hit
>Cuts off his arm
>Mel uppercuts him
>Dragon Feng is down
>mfw he had a close combat skill of 70
>Mel rips his head off to get his cortical stack
>Everyone rolls for sanity damage
>Meanwhile, the mandatory hacker girl of the group has his sushi stolen by the pet monkey
>Throws rest of sushi at him
>Hits triad member instead
>Does a persuasion check to avoid a fight
>Accidentally hits on triad member
>Gets love letters for the rest of the game
This may not be totally sci-fi related, but cosmic horror arguably plays a bigger role in sci-fi than it does in horror these days, so here goes:
Pretty cool, if you ask me.
Let's say a couple million years pass without humans on Earth, gimme your personal list for the top 15 animals currently existing on Earth you think might evolve into the dominant species and your reasoning, and what you think they might look like then.
SF Book Recommendations
Hello anons.This thread needs more traffic, and I need something to read so,
BOOK THREAD
Post any sci-fi and maybe even sci-fi/fantasy books (as long as its more SF than not) that you would recommend.
>tfw youll never be a cyborg
why does sf torture me so?
Retro Sci Fi
The good old days
W40k General
Everybody step in!
Unless you're a heretic, then you should gtfo
Fantasy Art reboot
non 404 edition
"Powered armor" or "Power armor?"
I prefer the former, because it's armor that is powered by some kind of engine. Also, "power armor" just doesn't sound right to me.
libertarian cities thread?
ITT armour you fell in love with
for me, that's any kind of Helghast armour.
Vidya
What is your favorite go-to Vidya related to Science Fiction?Can be anything, movie tie-in, standalone, absolutely disgusting facebook or mobile game.
Also, what is your least favorite?
The Silver Ship and the Sea
Anyone read the books? I loved them. My first sci-fi books to be honest but they were really worth it.
The German cover is by far more superior.
What media do you know that has cool aliums, /sf/?
Things you dislike in SF
Alternatively: Things that always puzzle you in SF.I'll start:
>Ridiculously humanoid aliens
Yes, I'm looking at you, Mass Effect!
>Incurable genetic diseases
We are already changing genomes, so why wouldn't the technology be more advanced in the future?
>Armies that are too small
Warhammer 40k is guilty of this, I believe.
Favorite type of faster than light travel?
I like overdrives.
truth serum
Hello /sf/ !
I am a Feedzen-Keltan
Books that deal with god....
Books that deal with the concept of god, simply not religion, but in which god or gods actually appear.
Can we have one of these, please?
Let's create a hard scifi setting
Heyo /sf/! I love sci-fi. Especially hard sci-fi.
I also love world-building and world-building threads, so why not combine the three?
The rules are simple:
In this thread we come together to create a hard-scifi universe.
You post some lore with the only two rules being that it has to be
A: scientifically accurate and B: not against any lore someone else posted above you.
Please don't be a dick and work around something someone already posted, for example:
>Anon A:"The Federation lost the war."
>Anon B:"BUUUUT They managed to create a new technology that allowed them to revert time, tell their past selves what to do and they then won the war."
That would be a dick move. Don't be a dick.
I will start:
> Humanity has not left the solar system yet.
Hey just stopping in to drop a UID.
Hope this place takes off it has alot going for it that many of the other upstart boards don't.
Don't fuck it up like mark's cabals.
Sincerely
-ggrevolt
PS.: Discuss warday, one of the greatest scifi works ever
Asimov
Asimov is the top scifi author, prove me wrong
SF Wallpaper General
Science fiction themed wallpapers,keep it high quality please
Can we have a pdf thread, please?
Ayyy LMAOs discovered!
This is why we need to build GIGANTIC FUCK OFF focusing mirrors around our sun and send them some toasty DEATH STAR SAYS SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER greetings.
Greetings, /sf/aggots (gotta come up with a better name). This board used to be dead as disco for long enough. It's gotten a lot better since I shilled it on some other boards, but more needs to be done, and there's only so much shitposting I can do on /b/ to shill /sf/.
My question is, how can we get more posters? What other boards can I shill on without being a complete dick? /lit/ and /liberty/ come to mind, but other than that, I am not really sure.
Last book you've read
The last book I've read was "The Anti-Capitalist Mentality", from Ludwig von Mises. Right now, I'm juggling pic related, "The Holocaust Industry", "Towards a New Socialism" and "Jane Eyre".
What does /sf/ think of /lit/'s taste in Science Fiction?
>this board
Neil Blomkamp
Your opinion on him? Visually, both District 9 and Elysium have been stunning, the action was decent and they actually came across as futuristic. As for his message, heard it a thousand times already.
Super Soldiers
If you were to write a sci-fi story, how would you write super soldiers? And who are the most well-written super soldiers you know? Been thinking about this again today. This topic has fascinated me since I first heard about it.
Don't mind me, guys. Just dumping some sci-fi porn.
Transhumanism
Can anyone recommend books about transhumanism? So far, I have read>The Singularity is near
>the Eclipse Phase Rulebook
and some sources from the intertubes.
So, any recommendations?
Space Opera
Any favorites of the "sub-genre", I'm not 100% on what actually constitutes it, so I would like some recs along with discussion about your favorites if possible. Read this a while ago, very enjoyable, full of adventure, and solid but not quite deep characters.
This board is dead as disco
Anyone on /sf/ up for a Star Trek Thread?
webm/mp4
post some webms or mp4s scifi related,sound preferred
good books to read
I'm doing biology and chemistry at college and stuff. And I'm expected to do some wider reading for them if I wanna add some things I've done outside of the classroom when I write my personal statement to go into Uni. Can anyone recommend me some good books, fictional or non-fictional, to read? Preferably rare ones.
RequiresHate
SF-author Benjanun Sriduangkaew has turned out to be both a troll and a very spiteful reviewer on the Blog "RequiresHate". Among other things, it has become known that she harassed a rape-victim for months because said victim claimed that recovering from rape was a good thing. Benjanun also told authors that they should get raped by dogs, drink acid and so on. Now she has posted apologies on her sites, but personally, I doubt they are honest, and if they are, they are not nearly enough.Source: http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5370
There's a ton more, but few are comprehensive, so you have to google a lot before you finally get an idea of what's going on.
Thoughts? I'm siding with Peter Watts here, but considering that I'm a fanboy, I may be biased.
/wars/ - Star Wars General Discussion
Star Wars is leaning more in the direction of science fantasy, but fits within the umbrella of /sf/.This thread is for the discussion of Episodes 1-6, the books, the games, The Clone Wars, the comics and anything else related to the franchise you can think of.
We are also of course discussing the Sequel Trilogy.
looking for comic
Anyone remember a comic book where Earth was covered by one big city and the government was using clones as disposable assets? The main character escaped his doom and was saved by a woman and was taken underground in the first comic.
Anyone here ever hear of this?
It was an actual radio show in the late 80's early 90's in Salt Lake City motherfucker.
the forums are down and I think this guy just lost interest.
My concern is, at what point do I release the old episodes into the wild since they are no longer available? Would that be wrong?
>not knowing the epic of Searcher and Stallion.tar.gzip
Alright /sf/. Red stars are regarded as the best candidates for extraterrestial life, last thing I heard. The main problems seem to be a) radiation and b) tidal locking.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve these problems? I've had the idea that the effects of tidal locking could be lessened in a binary star system, or if the planet was orbiting a gas giant.
Can we have transcendent fantasy for a change?
The genre appears to be so beaten, all these spaceships, humanoids, wars, quantum magic et al.
A lot of fiction seems to focus on personal experience of humans as well. It is so dull, so boilerplate.
It looks like the pretty serious discussion of how people in the future will have a problem with horseshit piling up in cities a century ago or so. Only linear foresight.
Let there be no people or anthropocentric wishful thinking. Let things conform to known physics laws and go from there.
/bsg/ Battlestar Galactica
Both original and re-imagined welcome here.
Reading this book right now, and holy shit, it's fucking stupid already! I have no idea what is going on at any given moment, due to liberal use of japanese words and small details that are thrown in every sentence for the sake of worldbuilding, but which detract from the plot itself.
I must admit, I'm only 50 pages through, but I doubt it will get much better. One-fifth of the book is enough to create a world and characters that are at least somewhat interesting.
New board
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/x/ X-Files Thread
The X-Files is one of my favorite shows. It was just so good at taking a ridiculous idea and making it believable and threatening. It was great at humor. I enjoyed it even in Season 9 but I think the second movie was a huge letdown.Anybody here have favorite episodes?
Science and Fiction
What was your favorite era of science fiction? How do you believe it has changed now from its earlier iterations? Who is your favorite writer from each era?
Banner Thread
Thread for the creation of banners, because image hosting sites are shit.
Dune
>tiny sandworm editionShould I read Brian Herbert's books or is it going to be shit?
My friend told me they are average space opera at worst