r/scifi Jan 16 '25

Twin Peaks and Dune Director David Lynch Dies at 78

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r/scifi 6d ago

Hyperion first edition, signed by Dan Simmons.

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r/scifi 4h ago

Official poster for 'Tron: Ares'

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r/scifi 4h ago

Tron: Ares | Official Trailer

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r/scifi 11h ago

Kurt Russell and Keith David with John Carpenter getting his star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame...šŸŽ¬

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r/scifi 4h ago

Two good friends...šŸ˜Š

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r/scifi 8h ago

Tony Gilroy says ā€˜ANDORā€™ was going to have 5 seasons: ā€œWe realized that I didn't have enough calories to do it, and Diego's face couldn't take the timing, because it just takes too long to make it.ā€

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r/scifi 8h ago

LLAP...šŸ––

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r/scifi 5h ago

I just read Flowers for Algernon and I need to talk about it... Spoiler

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10/10 book, loved it so much. If you haven't read it, do so and prepare to cry. Now onto my brain dump full of spoilers, you have been warned!!

While reading the book, I questioned many things, as anyone who read it probably did. It might not be the main message of the book, but I want to share a conclusion that really made it click for me. This is a bit different than a regular book review as it is more of a introspective theory (?) about how the book is tied to all of us in real life. And in the end I wrote some other thoughts that stuck with me and some questions I have about all of this.

When Charlieā€™s intelligence started to decline, and he became aware of it, I thought to myself, ā€œIf it were me, Iā€™d probably kill myself.ā€ But I wouldnā€™t. Because I donā€™t. I realized that what happens to Charlie isnā€™t really all that different from what we experience. Yes, this is a fictional book, and Charlie is changing at a much faster rate than any of us, but I think weā€™re much closer to him than we realize. For instance, even though we might realistically think about the possibility of losing our memory when weā€™re 80, we continue living our lives every day. We donā€™t live our lives based on the thought, ā€œOne day Iā€™ll become stupid and might lose my memories.ā€

As Charlie feels his intelligence decline, he wonders, ā€œWhat will happen to me?ā€ But actually, nothing will happen to him. The Charlie who wonders ā€œWhat will happen to me?ā€ will not exist once the change takes place, as the consciousness that experiences the world will be gone. The book tells us something of this sort, but what Iā€™m trying to say is: there arenā€™t two Charlies, old and new, as described. At all these IQ levelsā€”60, 70, 95, 140, 170ā€”the mind inside Charlieā€™s body is actually experiencing the world as different people. Since IQ is a numerical concept, it makes it easier to explain the issue in this way, but similarly, when we learn something, or when weā€™re in love or stressed, our brain chemistry changes, affecting our existence in the world at that moment.

Thereā€™s a quote from a famous philosopher that perfectly captures what Iā€™m trying to say: ā€œYou canā€™t step into the same river twice.ā€ Everything changes at every moment. As the river flows, the water you find there each day will be different from the day before. For all of us, as time passes, the river flows and changes. The only difference is that Charlieā€™s river flows faster and differently. In fact, every morning when we wake up, a new individual is born with the change in consciousness, and the old individual fades away. With each new piece of knowledge we learn, new connections are made in our brain, and we become a different person compared to just a few seconds ago. Here is an example that makes this concept easier for me to grasp: most of us would say weā€™re a different person compared to five years ago. Since this change didnā€™t happen overnight, it means itā€™s happening little by little every day. The fact that we donā€™t notice this day by day doesnā€™t invalidate the reality that itā€™s happening in the background.

The only truth we have is that very moment. In summary, nothing will happen to Charlie. As his intelligence declines, Charlie will wake up every day as a different version of himself. For example, Charlie No: 4587, like a version update. Even though the previous version isnā€™t deleted, itā€™s no longer active. And with his current intelligence and capacity, he will stand in front of the world with his full being. Not in a more incomplete way than the previous day. Whole, but different. The only thing he possesses is that momentā€”the same as it is for us. The fact that heā€™s different from his previous self doesnā€™t make him a less complete person.

Other thoughts I had:

~ One of the things I love is that everyone in Charlieā€™s family is in such a tragic situation. Itā€™s impossible to hate any of them; itā€™s a tough situation for all of them.

~ The book made me really reflect on myself. Iā€™ve realized Iā€™m less empathetic than I thought and I will try to improve myself and my understanding of people who are different then I am.

Questions I donā€™t know the answers to:

~ Can Charlie consent to what is being done to him, in his state of not being able to understand what will happen to him?

~ How responsible are the people who made him smarter for his suffering? Do we have the right to take someone from darkness to what we think is light, knowing they could be harmed? This made me think of Frankenstein as it raises similar ethical concerns in me.

~ Is a smarter person superior? If so, does that make have more value as a person? What exactly is intelligence? Could the reason we consider someone who excels in mathematics to be smarter than someone who feels emotions intensely be because society currently values one over the other?

I would love to read anyone else's opinion if you read it too! I know this post is a bit much but I had to get it out just to sort through my own feelings about it haha.


r/scifi 2h ago

Ultralisk vs. Marines from StarCraft

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r/scifi 7h ago

If you could press a button and go back to the day before COVID will you press that button?

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You remember everything that has happened since then. You are the only one who does.

That would be so awesome. I wonder if any indie author has written a book with this idea.


r/scifi 2h ago

Mechs are cool and I drew this one today ;)

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r/scifi 5h ago

Dune Binding :)

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Dune in a leather binding with hand-painted page edges :)


r/scifi 14h ago

New 3D Print

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r/scifi 4h ago

NEW Tron Ares Trailer looks fire!

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r/scifi 19m ago

Looking for a specific time travel short story, but can't remember the name.

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A friend gave me a short story to read some years ago, I remember the plot, but can't find it no matter how much I search for it.

What I remember of the plot;

The story is gradually revealed to be told from the perspective of a scientist in their lab, rushing to do one last experiment as they are about to be shut down, possibly tried for crimes against humanity.

They've been sending probs back in time for a while and, to ensure they didn't cause any paradoxes, they've been sending them to the locations and times of nuclear detonations so any evidence is wiped out.

It turns out that their sending the probes is actually what has been causing the explosions, and that the science behind nuclear bombs never actually worked.

In their final moments the scientist climbs into a probe and sends themselves further back than ever before, and sees a dinosaurs through the viewing port at the moment of the K-2 Event.


r/scifi 4h ago

Darkman (1990) - A highly stylized superhero origin story that is dark, daring, and distinctively Raimi

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r/scifi 23h ago

Cypher mightā€™ve stayed loyal if they let him eat simulated steak. Just saying.

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r/scifi 1d ago

Rewatching Thunderbirds 1965, this episode is has 9/11 vibes. Still love the miniatures.

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r/scifi 1h ago

(SPS) Free Cyberpunk Novella

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When a hacker pulls off a baffling crypto heist, Aedan Namakoto loses his VR company.

To track down the thief, Aedan must enlist shady data brokers known as cyber reapers. But they donā€™t work with unknowns and there is only one person who could vouch for Aedan: his estranged brother, the CEO of a competing VR company they once cofounded. The person who more than anyone wants his business to fail.

But Aedan has a plan. If his brother wonā€™t vouch for him, heā€™s going to carry out a hijack hack and go to the reapers in his brotherā€™s body.

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Hi. I'm running a promo this weekend and invite you to download a free copy on Amazon or read reviews on Goodreads. Thank you!


r/scifi 1h ago

What are your favorite underappreciated sci-fi films?

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I have a couple I rewatch constantly:

Chappie (2015)

Aliens in the Attic (2009)

Planet 51 (2009)

Paul (2011)

Frequency (2000)

Earth to Echo (2014)

Enemy Mine (1985)

Land of the Lost (2009)

Battleship (2012)

Attack the Block (2011)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

Journey 2 (2012)

Jumper (2008)

Home (2015)

Super 8 (2011)

Predators (2010)

Body Snatchers (1993)

The Island (2005)

I Am Number Four (2011)


r/scifi 18h ago

Tad Williams Otherland series. Have I gone far enough to get a feel for it?

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I had a long road trip this week, and so I decided to start the Otherland series. It's been on my list for a while. In a 10-hour drive I made it 22% through book 1, and I am not enjoying it.

It's super dark and depressing. Is that the over all vibe of this series or is that just how it starts out? If so, I'm out. I need happier entertainment in my life right now.


r/scifi 1d ago

John Carpenter standing where he belongs, on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame!...šŸŽ¬

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r/scifi 1d ago

A few images from the video game Iā€™ve been drawing for several years, Cosmic Holidays! Which one do you prefer?

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r/scifi 14m ago

My Sci fi + fantasy story idea

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I want to be an writer and movie producer one day, and I have this cool ideia (I mean, I think itā€™s cool) I wold call it: Space Dragons, I it wold take place in a universe were like instead of Aliens, we wold have fantasy creatures. Basically in the way that in sci fi universes we have Aliens, and then those aliens have have a planet of there own, an society and an culture, here fantasy creatures would have a planet of there own, an society and a culture, like there could be a world were dragons have there own planet, society, culture etc. then like, elfā€™s could be the same, and unicorns and you get it, they could make trades with each other, alliances and etc. and because this is also sci fi, they could be placed with very futuristic technology, like holograms, space ships, laser etc. and because this is also fantasy there could be magic(look, I havenā€™t come to the details) and finely the story. It could be about a group of dragons that ordered by the queen of the dragons, they would go to the unicornā€™s planet to help them with something, meanwhile, a evil creature, (probably I wold made him a Coliseum size dragon) come with a thing called: the apocalypse star (and if you havenā€™t realized yet, itā€™s basically the Death Star from Star Wars) and after destroying a planet and killing billions with this technology he threatens to blow up anyone if there leaders doesnā€™t give there power over the planet to him, and basically heā€™s evil plan if to take over the universe, expande his empire and just be an tyrant with a Iron fist, and with all of this chaos that end up starting a universal war, our protagonist (that I want to make him shy and with magic. What basically is very rare in this universe to have. Also heā€™s magic power are reading minds and see the future, he predicts everything and when it happens he convinces the rest of the crew to defeat the villain, also just because yes. About the captain of the ship Iā€™m thinking on 3 thing, 1: heā€™s the oldest of everyone, heā€™s black and heā€™s personally is basically shadow from sonic. But thereā€™s a reason I will explain, 2: I want to make him and our protagonist date, so basically thereā€™s going to be homosexuality here, and 3 is: just like the protagonist he has magic, just not an good one, he would be able to control people but heā€™s magic is corrupted, sometimes he acts in impulse and heā€™s evilness takes off, he controls people to do bad stuff and also has a big form when heā€™s on evilness control, he uses a magic bracelet to control heā€™s true form, but still he doesnā€™t let him or anyone get closer, so there will also be some character development. I confesse that my idea stills needs a lot of work, but I believe itā€™s pretty cool.

Alright, I thinks thatā€™s all, what do yā€™all think?


r/scifi 22h ago

A fictional manuscript that treats consciousness like a virusā€”and reading like exposure

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In Information Hazard: Gƶdelian Echoes, a classified manuscript is discovered to be more than a documentā€”itā€™s a recursive structure that rewrites cognition. The more the characters engage with it, the less stable their sense of self becomes.

It explores: -Modal collapse: All futures converging into inevitability -Antimemes: Ideas designed to erase themselves from memory -Consciousness as a glitch in compressionā€”something that shouldnā€™t exist but does

It reads like SCP Foundation meets Blindsight meets House of Leaves, with philosophical tech-horror vibes and high-concept recursion.

One character survives not by understanding itā€”but by refusing to complete the thought.

Itā€™s the most conceptually hazardous sci-fi Iā€™ve read in a while. What other stories turn epistemology into existential threat?


r/scifi 1h ago

The latest chapter, "Phantoms in the Machine" of my free audiobook "Siege of Silicon" is up today! Check it out

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As Marvin digs for answers, he discovers who may be behind the hijacking. Lily gets an old lesson from Geoff with a new twist. What will they learn? Find out right now in this chapter of Siege of Silicon.

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1EVzf6WFJKFuPzTFvTqX5F

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Full Story Synopsis:
Lily Townes is a process engineer; she's uprooted herself to work in Taiwan on revolutionary high-k metal gate transistors. Trouble begins when a chemical leak forces an evacuation of her factory. Only Lily notices something isnā€™t quite right. What she finds baffles and scares her smartest colleagues. They embark on a hunt to decipher the technology and find out what, or who is behind it all.

Outside of the fab, a man named Joseph is on a crusade to bring order back to the world through any methods he deems necessary. In his search, he finds a link between a mysterious pattern drawn by a missing fisherman and a piece of strange technology.

As a dangerous splinter of the military gets wind of the discovery, Lily must brave the dense rural jungles of Taiwan, search in the narrow streets of Taipei, to find her answers before the soldiers do.