I read the book Dune a few years ago, and would like to read the second an third book in the series (Dune Messiah and Children of Dune), but of course I forgot most details of the first book.

If I watch Dune: Part One (2021), and Dune: Part Two (2024), will the transition to reading Dune Messiah be smooth? Or are the movies too different from their source material?

I have watched Star Trek Strange New World and it made me fall in love with Star Trek. I was thinking about watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine although I am not sure if I should start this as my next Star Trek. Maybe I will watch something with it. What Star Trek shows would you recommend me to watch?

I want to read sci-fi which isn't primarily about space or robots. Bonus points for something written in the past 10 years.

I’ve started a petition to bring the show back or at least give us a tv movie as the show ended on a huge cliffhanger. I know the show ended 20 years ago but there’s no harm in trying. My favorite characters were Lexa and Shalimar. The show ended just as it really started to explore Lexa and Jesse’s feelings towards each other more. Also we learned who the Creator was. Sanctuary and the Helix were gone/destroyed as we the dominion building that held Lexa and Jesse. It would be awesome to know the out come of all of that. I feel like a 2 hour tv movie could wrap all that up nicely. The link to the petition is below. I know it’s a long shot but hey, it’s worth a try.

https://chng.it/SksC7zSYT2

In a galaxy fractured by humanity’s diverse evolution, the discovery of fossilized precursor technology sparks a brutal race for power. Each human faction—the Capitalists, Communists, Cyborgs, Creators, Purists, Void Dwellers and the enslaved—competes to claim the technology for their own vision of the future.

Aiden Kade, a former Purist turned drifter, is pulled into the conflict after learning that the discovery ties to cryptic visions he’s been chasing for years. As war looms, Aiden uncovers dark secrets about the precursors that could either unite or destroy humanity. Caught between warring factions, Aiden must decide if revealing the truth will end the war—or make it worse.

I wrote a sci-fi book, sent it to a professional editor to fix grammar, spelling and other issues. After three weeks or so, he sent me back my book with a comment for a gas giant, saying "Gas giant? What is this?". The sentence in the book said that the spaceship sensors discovered a gas giant, describing it's features afterwards.

This made me ask myself a question. If this editor, who finished two colleges, one of them electronics, doesn't know what a gas giant is, how will the average reader know this?

Edit: as people mentioned in the comments, it’s most probably a question from a readers perspective, as in “will a reader understand this?” Also the book is already published, but it couldn’t get out of my head.

For me personally:

1. Blade Runner (1982)

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

3. Dune Book Series (1965-1985)

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Both shows really captivated and stunned me. Dark Matter was so mind bending and the amount of plot twists was insane. I appreciated the concept of travel across multiverse, steered by your emotions and longing. There’s so much to unpack from this show, so many questions and theories. Why did the convergence happen in this particular world? If there’s an infinite number of worlds, how come the advanced Chicago world come up on 3 different occasions? What will the government do when they start finding bodies of the same person? Have no other people/governments worked on similar tech? How did all the versions of the protagonist even uncover the box, deduce they’d need certain medicine to use it and then obtain it?

When it comes to Severance, at first I wasn’t sold but it was a false first impression caused by the utterly painful caricatural depiction of a corpo world. Once the story developed, and the secrets started piling up, I got really hooked to the very last minute. The concept of severance is cruel for me, very convenient to the outie but imagine being stuck at work all your life, you know nothing beyond it. You’re exhausted after the whole day, you blink and suddenly you’re starting again, weirdly rested. That’s torture to me. I’ve got so many questions regarding what they’re actually doing, as it seems extremely inefficient and unproductive, it feels impossible they’re bringing much value to the company with their work, so maybe they’re the value, the whole experiment, paving way to total control of the mind, even outside the severed floors. Who knows, I hope the second season brings some answers

Hear me out: L. Ron Hubbard established Scientology as a religion long before writing the science fiction novel Battlefield Earth. In your opinion, is there another science fiction author who could have created a successful religion based on their ideas, and why?

There's this Japanese manga anthology magazine who's open to one-shot manga submissions with science fiction, LGBTQ, dark fantasy, and horror as the three core genres of interest (although other genres are welcome). Out of the four, I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi one-shot, but research would be helpful. Are there any good resources for research regarding sci-fi and/or science? Sorry of this seems like a tall order or a stupid question

Years ago I saw a film about invisible creatures from another dimension that would kill you if they touched you. They seemed to move through solid objects as if they were swimming in water. They were not inherently destructive and seemed oblivious to what they were doing. After killing off thousands of humans, a dome or some kind of structure was built that they couldn't penetrate to protect the population. After that, I forget what happened or how the film ended. The idea of the movie was similar to Spectral. Anyone know the name of this film?

Here's the link to Max's official YT channel. They posted the entire first episode for free if anyone wanted to see it.

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The main premise of the three body novel series is that the trisolarans are coming to invade the planet earth due to the unstable nature of their home planet which is orbits within a 3 body star system.

The thing that struck out to me reading through the novels was their manufacture of the sophons. The creation of the Sophon involves "unfolding" a proton's extra dimensions, turning it into a sheet the width of a planet. Circuits are etched onto the sheet using strong interaction force before the sheet is folded back into a proton (now a quantum computer).

To me this seems like something only a kardashev 1 or above civilization can do. Which brings me to my main point, which is if they have the ability to create sophons, wouldn’t they also be able to produce a series of Dyson spheres to make their home planet habitable within the three body star system? Or even just a single Dyson sphere around their home planet to shield it from the unpredictable nature of their star system. Etching circuits on a planetary sized surface seems like it would already require self replicating machines that would be needed to construct a Dyson sphere.

The idea of alternative physics sounds really cool but I've heard his books are difficult. I took basic physics and calculus years ago and wondered if that would be enough to dive into his books. Thanks!