Sci-Fi

so I’m reading Nexus third book : Apex, in this section

Is dreaming about its perfect future. Anybody know Ramez Naam is talking about in this section ?

Or is it just technobabble?

Starleaf heals, Starleaf harms. Out on Epsilon‑9, the frontier teaches every cowboy: freedom comes with its price.

Tiphaine watched as Tsomak stepped aside for a quick drag and then puff of a cigar. Then, lifting with his beer gut-burdened back, he poured out more of the barrel into the forest creek. It probably was as much exercise as he had done in the last 20 years.

Tsomak laughed. “You see, Tip, everyone in the Corps thinks there needs to be some grand confrontation with the Teelmaks. Not me, that's why I operate my own merc unit and didn't sign up with the pretty boys and girls in the Foreign Guard. Me, I like indirect action instead, like putting chemicals in the water supply. It may take years, but these bugs will have dumb babies and maybe start killing each other off. That will be the bellwether for things going to plan. In a while, the next generation can march right into the Hive while I enjoy retirement on Zagimuf Beach. Yes, siree, you stick with me, rich girl, and you can live long enough to add a pension to your mommy and daddy's Imperial estate.”

As she listened, she realized her time beyond the Core Worlds and outside the officiality of the Empire wasn't the romantic adventure she thought it was going to be.

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Anyone watching the new foundation series? Thought I’d post a thread for the most recent episode to see if there’s any interest.

Edit: Any book readers please put those comments with spoiler tags!

Hi! I’ve read the Foundation trilogy and heard that to understand sequels and prequels I need to read the Robot series (especially the sub-series about Lije Baley). So I’ve read „Mother Earth” and started „The Caves of Steel”. My question is: Why were robots forbidden on Earth during the events of „Mother Earth”, but were not banned during the early robots series, and why were they allowed in the Outer World? I got that they are allowed during events of „The Cages of Steel” because of the Pacific Project. But did I get it right that the Pacific Project failed? Cause objectives of the project were:

1. Temporarily isolate Earth from Outer Worlds (DONE)
2. Force earthmen to control birth, use robots, and hydroponic farms. (DONE)
3. Till the time of new contact of earthmen and the spacers, the spacers either die out from diseases or evolve to the state where they are not racists toward earthmen (FAILED, cause spacers in the Spacetown still are as much racists as spacers in “Mother Earth”)

So there will be any explanation why the Paciffic Project failed?

As an executive producer on SyFy’s The Expanse, Naren Shankar helps to steer the spaceship Rocinante through the asteroid belt and beyond, a sci-fi journey that began, for him, in real laboratories. He’s been writing TV for nearly three decades — he began on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1992 — but before that, he was studying at Cornell University in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics.

Older article but still interesting..

Why we may never get a good I. Robot adaptation :(

New to Lemmy, hope it's OK to cross-post this here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40607914

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/fui/

An ongoing series of interviews with the people who have created the fantasy UIs for movies and shows over the last three decades: background, experience, inspirations, goals, technology, process etc.

Altered Carbon, Black Mirror, Continuum, Demolition Man, The Expanse, Fast & Furious, Her, Iron Man, Kingsman, Minority Report, The Net, Picard, Ready Player One, Tron: Legacy, Westworld and many more.

Also:

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/inmotion/

Interviews with people responsible for other visual aspects of films & shows: cinematographers and production designers.

They had me at Demolition Man.

If you’re new to Synthwave, it’s a great introduction to the genre