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If you had a program that could scour your Reddit history and make an AI bot of you, what instructions/parameters would you give it for it to better collate what value to assign to/rank order your values, attitudes, and preferences.? I'll start: "Make her more caring, more blonde, and less obsessed with the true crime/dysfunctional family dramas"

I will be researching the Python code on that. Or maybe I'll just delegate to ChatGPT.

I've recently realized that I don't have a lot of experience with vampires in science fiction, barring possibly I am Legend and Daybreakers. And the Wraith from Stargate.

I also remember reading a book about a vampire dad raising a mortal daughter in a post vampire world. I think it was called Vamped, a surprising good read although only borderline scifi at best.

Asking this for some research I'm doing. I'm currently making a Shadowrun-esque rpg with Blade-style vampire dynasties.

i know time travel move bump into someguy in the past congrats the nazi's won WW2 and the multiverse a ever expanding space full of universes that get new universes for every decision you do in the end resulting to infinite universes

So much of the book is just pedantic children staying the obvious or correcting each other's rhetoric. The existence of the Descolada was hardly solved and honestly felt like a dodge than a resolution.

It honestly felt like a waste of the marriage of Children of the Mind and the Shadow series.

Does anyone have anything redeeming about this book I could take with me?

OK long story short:

Some of my first memories in life were watching Star Trek TNG with my dad on our heavy ass steel pull out couch with some Munchos. Instantly became a lifelong Trek fan after that. Have seen TNG, VOY, and DS9 innumerable times.

Fast Forward, and I watch all the Stargates a few years back, SG1 and Atlantis, didn't love U. Then a subreddit told me about Babylon 5, wow loved it. Once again the algorithm recommended me Farscape just after and I just finished it.....blown away once again. Have watched and loved Serenity/Firefly and The Expanse for when they comes up, for once thank god for Amazon.

I need to know what should my next scifi show be? I am not afraid of 10 seasons of 25 episode each, but also won't complain about a short run like Serenity.

Finally, I'm sure that some of the recommendations will be some random show I forgot but I want to see which ones have the kind of charming characters, fleshed out worlds, complex politics or floating through space ignoring it sort of shows I've been missing all these years.

Even as I write this - Battlestar Galactica 2000s was truly amazing and so was the new Foundation series! Hit me with your best shots!

Edit: I want to add this actually. What someone likes is often not as important as what they don't when they're asking for opinions. I am really not a fan of most Disney SW or NuTrek series, Discovery was a writing abomination to me. Don't get me wrong, I like some trashy shows as long as the characters are charming like The 100 was a very guilty pleasure. I know that's a fine line but it's one that's hard to describe.

Edit 2: I'll happily accept all the amazing suggestions and more! I'll also drop an update on what I pick after me and the boys watch Hit Monkey Season 2 which will basically be a single evening of viewing.

Ok, I confess I am still in love with David Webers writing - excellent world building and I like the high stakes environment. Lost fleet comes close..but otherwise what can scratch my itch?

I'm thinking that George Orwell is wearing jackboots while forever stomping John Galt in the face.

What do you think that piece of art is trying to say?

I cant find a short film, that was based on a house cleaning robot, that befriends the dog. Trying to say good boy, but the owners take it as its malfunctioning. Saddest film, I cant find it. please help.

Saw this (2022) movie last night, starring Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, Our Flag Means Death) and liked it very much.

It's a terrific take on the difficulties a time traveler can face, and the plot is a fascinating journey for Darby's character. The dialogue and complications are pretty believable, and the conclusion is very satisfying.

It got middling reviews, so YMMV, but I say give it a try!

Hello scifi fans! I was wondering as an ancient Canadian if any of the rest of you watched Prisoners of Gravity?

I was introduced to many of my favs from this show when I was a teenager…Harlan Ellison, David Brin, Neil Gaiman, Fredrik Pohl, Frank Miller, Alan Moore. Hell, even Gene Roddenberry was interviewed. Anyone else watch the show?

Everyone always talks about the likelihood of humanity going to war against hyper-advance Artificial Intelligences that are capable of independent thoughts and modifying themselves to become more efficient, powerful and ultimately better than their previous versions. But what's the likelihood of multiple AIs going to war with one another? Are there any reasons for AIs to fight one another? And what would an actual AI v AI war would like? Simply them trying to hack and rewrite the other or more like how humans war with each other?

Basically just the title. I noticed majority of sci fi I've read the main character was either some military or ex military person or some kind of scientist. What are some books that don't follow this trope?

I did a search for this book, but didn't find any posts about it. It is fairly long, and there are quite a few characters, but it kept my interest the whole way.

In some ways, almost a variation on Clarke's 'Rendezvous With Rama' in that a mysterious alien star-ship is heading towards Earth, and a crew is sent to attempt to communicate with it.

Parallels with Rama are everywhere, but Wellington has a darker style than Clarke - some horror elements, and violent scenes.

Brief Review

It has nothing to do with a movie of the same title that came out in 2019 as far as I can tell. That said, I think it would make a great Science Fiction movie, with the right treatment.

I'm looking for a sci-fi paperback from the 80s or 90s. The main premise was a quasi-government or secret agency was recruiting people with psionic abilities to do various shady work, but the main focus of at least the leader of this group was to find people talented enough to manipulate tiny things (like veins) to be able to assassinate rival leaders and threats.

The one scene I remember from the book took place on a starliner where the main character was being followed by the bad guys. When he went to his stateroom, he came found one of his followers inside, but they were frozen in time. Some allies of the main character had psioncally froze him before the main guy came in and they had to close his eye lids so he wouldn't know he'd been interfered with. Then they had to rearrange the room to look just like it did when the bad guy showed up.

All I seem to remember about the title is the word "Adept". I don't remember anything else about it other than that scene and the premise.

I also remember the back cover had an image of a woman (in white?) elevated on a dias with crowds of people surrounding her.

It's been driving me nuts for a long while now. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I looked at some of the sci-fi book sub-reddits, but those are so inactive as to be likely ineffectual.

Thanks for any leads on this story or author.

Having arms and legs made with solid bars of AR600, tool steel or maraging steel with just a small hole in the middle for copper wires would make them much smaller targets and allow them to concentrate all their armor into a much smaller area while maintaining the full range of motion of a human being.

Having thin arms would reduce torque and performance because of the high lever effect but their strenght would still be superhuman while considerably increasing armor for a given weight because of the much smaller area to protect.

Thanks to whomever recently recommended Babel-17. The first classic I've read that didn't make me cringe at the sexism. It read as so uptodate! I don't know how I've missed Samuel Delaney all these years. Off to read the rest of his ouevre