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We've found it, Sir. Sitting approximately 300m away. No obvious damage, but it's been in better shape. No trace of the previous search team.

Star Wars is what got me into sci-fi, and was all that I was really aware due to its massive influence on pop culture and it’s unrivalled by any other fictional universe. But over time you start to realise that Star Wars, while still great in some areas (original trilogy, Andor, Rogue One etc) is really quite shallow and tame compared to other pieces of science fiction and no where near as good.

Books and universes like Dune, Warhammer 40k, The Culture, Hyperion, Foundation, The Expanse, Book of the New Sun, Revelation Space etc all put Star Wars to shame with how much deeper, richer and better written/made they are.

TV Shows like Star Trek (TNG, DS9), Babylon 5, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse etc and also just far more interesting and better written and planned than Star Wars.

Movies like Blade Runner and its sequel, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Alien and Aliens, The Thing, Arrival, the latest Dune movies, for me are just so much more unique and interesting.

It’s a shame since theses fictional stories don’t get the same recognition and have the same pop culture influence that Star Wars has, since they are such better stories. But at the same time that goes to show how good sci-fi can really get. Star Wars for me feels like the popcorn/fast food of sci-fi, but once you go deeper down the rabbit hole and start actually doing some fine dining you realise there’s so much better stuff out there. Can anyone else share the same experience and opinion as me?

I am on the hunt for a novel or novelette from the golden age of British sci-fi.

The story unfolds through the eyes of a writer, a man haunted by nightmarish visions. He soon realizes these are not mere dreams, but glimpses into a sinister alien plot. The extraterrestrial invaders, masters of manipulation, have woven a web of deceit, ensnaring unsuspecting humans into their nefarious scheme.

The world was at the brink of the war between the western and African countries. The writer sees the aliens' grand design: to manipulate a black person to steal a perilous biological weapon, Germ No. 214 from a British secret lab, and unleash it upon humanity. A cataclysmic event that could extinguish humans as we know it.

The writer's warnings fall on deaf ears. His wife, his doctors, even government officials dismiss his claims as the ravings of a madman. He then realizes it's the aliens' ominous manipulation of the minds of people around him. Undeterred, he embarks on a perilous quest to thwart the alien plot, determined to prevent the doom by catching the thief.

However, a twist of fate awaits him. The real villain is the director of the lab. When he caught the thief and returned the container of the germs to the director, the director turns against him and his companion. They were trapped and imprisoned in the lab while the deadly germs are unleashed upon the world...

Whatever false flag alien invasion plan is in the works will have to be put on hold. The wheel of dharma is a wormhole that will open up to our world. Seers have seen this moment in snippets for millenia. It marks a transition. Is this portal going to eject an alien force, or is it merely going to suck us up for processing like some kind of harvester on a vast plantation. The only thing that might save us now and potentially save other planets is synergy. Whatever is coming is a predatory force. The anomaly of light bursts caused by the nuclear weapons we've been detonating for nearly 80 years will be recognized eventually. I understand these are very small on the cosmic scale and that so are we. Very small, and very stupid. The universe and even the milky way is constantly being inhabited. Life ebs and flows but it always remains. Undoubtedly there is colonization in the milky way. Something in the nature of what we have done is probably a typical and deadly bumble for many young worlds.

I was contemplating what our world might look like if we were aware of other civilizations existing on planets in our solar system and throughout our galaxy. Would humanity have become more technologically advanced? Would people on Earth have focused more on exploring the cosmos, or would they have chosen to impose self-isolation from other habitable planets?

I will start farscape followed closely by rifts the rpg, then final space

Im a massive Gundam fan, and I love Titan too, I've been following Attack on Titan since 2013. I absolutely love and respect both franchises, but as I watched the 2 part finale, including the ending credits, I could not help shout outloud, "This is literally Char's Counterattack!" Come to think of it, Titan has a lot core themes and elements like that of a Gundam series.

Really into the era of “vintage “ sci-fi like Janisarries or Time Traders? Would love some recommendations of others. I’m currently reading Clan and Crown

”The term "Mary Sue" is often applied pejoratively to strong female heroines considered to be unrealistically capable, both in fan fiction and in commercially published fiction.” I recently discovered there are seasons after season 2. Mid way into season 4 it’s getting insufferable. Burnham: “If we don’t get out immediately we’ll be locked in here forever/blown up” Random extra: “Yes but wait, I have to explain how I feel.” Burnham: pulls up a chair “🥹 Go ahead!” And this happens once every other episode. Even the ship got an entire episode to deep dive into its, sorry, her, emotions. There is no exploring, no discovery, no ethical dilemmas without an easy answer explained by a soft spoken teary eyed Burnham. Even doing their duty as military officers is free to debate if someone has a personal feeling about it, the worse thing they could possibly do is not validate what someone feels. This is just an endless rant because I don’t have anywhere else to vent and after all these episodes I just gotta talk about how I feel.

I there anyone else but me that thinks that the love scene with Decker and Rachel gets kind of rapey?

Despite the romantic saxophone music,

See at about 3:40 in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOfvq5ZO-Qw

In the sense that, further humans in the very far future will obviously do to other planets what they have done to their home world earth, build many large cities, harvest their resources and live off it. Potentially Harvest and farm any species found on these other worlds be it animal or plant if they’re fit for consumption or other uses.

In this sense could humans be considered a parasite species? Because it’s clear when humans have developed well enough, and developed hyper advanced space travel, many other worlds will become like Earth due to human activities.

Does anybody else just love it when science fiction movies combine the futuristic scenery with old music? Like for example, in Guardians of the Galaxy when they’re discovering Ego’s planet there’s George Harrison playing and it’s just stunning. And in Ready Player One they start playing Beegees when Wade and Artemis are on that floating dance floor. I think it’s a really cool contrast and I need more movies to do this!