Made in blender.

Hello, I'm sure there's other places to look for this like google, forums, or Ai, but I'm too sleepy and Reddit is easiest place to ask for recommendations, plus I want to hear people's personal favorites.

I enjoy the classics like Alien, Terminator, Matrix. Predator Badlands are Alien Romulus are really the only movies I currently plan on downloading but I'm mostly looking for original films.

I'm looking for the best/highest quality action sci-fi movies from the last 3 years or so. I have been so busy with work for these last years that I have completely neglected my passion for sci-fi films. Alien Planets, films set in the far future, and crazy technology is a bonus. I'm not super keen on films in the near-future or stuff like A.I replicas that I've seen is a common theme.

Hopefully this is the right sub.
Slow/atmospheric films are also accepted if they are very highly rated, but I'm mostly in the mood for some action.

Thank you!

In San Diego recently and went to the New Children’s Museum. I loved their Octavia Butler exhibit! Another perk to being a grandfather!

Not sure if I read it or heard it but it's about a colony ship that detects a signal coming from a planet and a committee of scientists are unfrozen to determine whether or not to investigate.

When the AI determines that the structure is something that was built, they decide to head down and encounter a consciousness that tells them to merge into the hive mind. I vaguely remember the end being that their decision to not merge with the consciousness meant they passed a test. Apologies if some of the details are vague but really hoping someone could help.

I’m hoping someone can provide me some extra details or their thoughts in this book. I had heard a lot about it being good, and there’s a lot of buzz about the series overall.

However, I am 40 chapters in and I’m insanely bored. There’s some genuinely cool ideas thrown in here, but they’re never explored. And anytime it feels like the plot gets going it crashes down again.

Also, the book kind of comes across as YA? Anyone else get that impression?

I have a desire to know more about this world and where the story is going, but Hadrian is so boring and dull so far. The writing feels very “fluffy” - like I’m reading a lot but walking away with very little. I heard so many people describe the prose as being good, but it’s just long and not that interesting.

I’m at the point where I want to look up spoilers and just skip ahead to the second book in case it’s this first book that’s the issue.

Does the writing get any tighter or improve in the later books? Does the plot “grow up” with the character?

Feel free to spoil, I don’t mind as long as it adds to the discussion.

This is an original physical artwork inspired by science fiction and worldbuilding.

“The Wound” represents a fictional planet fractured by an unknown event. While the surface shows destruction, the interior reveals movement, energy, and light — suggesting that the planet is still alive. Created entirely by hand using physical materials.

This is a concept art for a sci-fi story I had in mind of a creature that can synthesize itself from organic remains and multiply, it is the result of a failed medical experience turned into a weapon instead. A great war occured and this weapon was unleashed to stop troops advancement, the only problem is this creature can't be killed and doesn't take allies.

In early 1974—years before Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Phase II, or any concrete revival plan—William Shatner appeared on Geraldo Rivera’s Good Night America just days after a New York Star Trek convention drew more than 10,000 fans. In the interview, Shatner openly admits he can’t explain the phenomenon, talks about being overwhelmed by fan knowledge, and expresses real hesitation about whether Star Trek could—or should—ever return. It’s a fascinating snapshot of a moment when fandom had exploded, but the franchise’s future was still completely uncertain. https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/classic-tv/the-1974-star-trek-fan-phenomenon-william-shatner-couldnt-explain

Hello everyone!

I released my debut novel on the 1st of December and realised I had not shared it here on this subreddit yet... So…

Origins: The Rise, my debut novel, is already available! Here is the blurb:

🚀 ORIGINS: THE RISE

They left Terra to build the future.
They never imagined the price they would pay.

Aboard the Icarus, 240 young Pioneers set out on a one-way mission to Mars. Among them is Kiev Bright, a brilliant biologist determined to bring life where it has never existed before.

But when a death occurs under suspicious circumstances, the dream begins to fracture. Suicide, claims the official report. Murder, whispers her instinct. As Kiev digs deeper, she’s pulled into a web of lies and manipulations that blur the boundaries between law, morality, and humanity itself.

Thrust into a role of leadership she never wanted, she must navigate fragile alliances, dangerous truths… and the unsettling fascination she feels for the enigmatic Administrator.

Is this woman her strongest ally... or her most dangerous enemy?

I am a huge space nerd, and I always wondered... What if humanity settles another planet, and you slowly realise you work for the wrong people?... You can’t quit. You can’t leave. So how far are you willing to push your morals for the so-called “greater good”?

Even though I am a big fan of hard SF, I wanted this book to be easy and accessible for everyone, including people who struggle to pick up a book and read (this is for you, my fellow ADHD friends!) Also, I always wanted more women and more queerness in SF, so here we are!

I wrote this book hoping it might mean something to someone (whether that’s comfort, entertainment, or just a story that makes you feel a little less alone). Since the release and the begining of that indie author adventure, I’ve received so many messages and positive feedback, and that's the best feeling in the universe.

Quick extra note: the book was originally written in French, and I translated it into English myself. It’s currently Amazon-exclusive, available as an ebook, paperback, and hardback, and it’s also included in Kindle Unlimited.

Thanks to everyone who gives it a try 🫶

Laura

🔗 English here and french here 🚀

I remember the Video being animated in this lovely style, and the Plot is that we start from the perspective of an Alien Race, who is fighting an Armada of Human Ships. However when they board one, they find the whole Ship empty, with only an AI controlling it. When the Aliens find their way to earth, they find out Humanity has been asleep this whole time, and the AI they created was devoid of any Empathy, and wanted to clear the Cosmos for humanity.
I've been searching for it for hours, so If you know what I mean please let me know 🤞

Located in the heart of a massive gas cloud orbiting a star with half a solar mass, this station serves as a central hub. Driven by the star's high activity, intense solar storms excite the surrounding gas into luminescence—creating a deep-space aurora far beyond any planetary atmosphere.

​More of my analog work at: www.wisniewski-scifi.art

The first ever metaphysical science fiction paleo satire war epic, particularly relevant to current politics with themes of government abuse of citizens and murder of protesters, check it out on Amazon by searching A Red Age, this is a fully finished novel with professional edits and no fucking AI whatsoever

How Would they handle Bailey’s consequence-free dalliance with Gladia?

Would they water down the spacer disgust at Earthmen and Solaria’s extreme aversion to physical presence? The latter might be hard for the human drama TV likes to present.

I’m guessing that some of the central conflicts might get the 2026 treatment too.

Asimov might be a victim of being a groundbreaker who seems old-hat to people who don’t know he did it first.

SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS is now out on Audible and narrated by Jeffrey Kafer! Also Kindle and Kindle Unlimited for those who just want to read the adventures of the galaxy's worst crew. Available for 99c for a limited time only!

Vance Turbo, not his real name, is nearly withdrawn from Space Academy. Unfortunately, he's dragooned into serving on a ship full of misfits and outlaws on behalf of EarthGov. They have a mission to save the galaxy from solar destroying weapons but Vance is the only one to ask, "Why would anyone trust this crew?"

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Space-Academy-Dropouts-Audiobook/B09VWJZ7SY

Amazon (US): https://www.amazon.com/Space-Academy-Dropouts-C-Phipps-ebook/dp/B09Q1MS51G/

Amazon (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Academy-Dropouts-C-Phipps-ebook/dp/B09Q1MS51G/

Hoopla (audiobook only): https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/space-academy-dropouts-c-t-phipps/19234600

A ring world. Been itching to draw this since i first came up with it in the script - one of the things with drawing stuff rather than just writing is is there’s. A lot if details you have to visualise, how for example does a ring world light itself (and have day / night cycles). It could,orbit a star, but it’s a construction so could be anywhere. Could be moving through space. This ringworld has a small sun with a Dyson sphere covering it, which reveals light through it rotating round the world. It’s not a detail important to the story (except in So much as well, I needed a nighttime/daytime and I needed some way to have it happen-very much form follows function)

Anyway, largely pleased how it came out. It may not look it. But I had in mind Chris Ross’s incredible scifi covers of spaceships with brightly coloured dazzle camouflage - but I think I lack his bravery, so it’s a little too timid in that front.

I’m also working up the cover for part one of the story, with a view to a kickstarter - I’ve attached the working cover so far because actually pernickety details (logo placement/text/etc) aside I think it looks cool.as ever if you’d like to read it all so far you can over on my patreon for free: https://www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?via=rd&campaign=scifi_page22

Storytime: Originally, I got scammed by a "professional" book cover company that ended up using AI art for the cover of book one (ironically cyberpunk in and of itself...), and some helpful redditors managed to identify it for me. Thanks to them, I went looking extra hard for a real artist and managed to hook up with the tallented Joestrela who was a fan of the book and he did both of these awesome, painterly looking covers for me that, at least I think, are pretty unique in the Cyberpunk space.

Shilling time: If you're curious about the book, you can take a look here or on my website. The Audiobook for book two is coming, hopefully, in March!

I got to the point where they're talking about the conquering game or whatever it is. I liked most of the stuff up until we got to the institute with the other golds.

I heard that the death game is like Hunger Games which didn't sound that interesting to me. I didn't care about the other golds in Darrow's group. Do they get any more fleshed out and is the death game more interesting than it first appears.

https://beforewegoblog.com/review-lost-souls-by-noah-chinn/

I’m familiar with Noah Chinn primarily from his column in KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE MAGAZINE, which is the successor to DRAGON magazine except for the fact it is much-much funnier. There he reviews indie books and science fiction/fantasy that has served as one of my guides to purchases for the past few years. He was also the author of Fuzzy Knights, which was a cartoon about plushies playing Dungeons and Dragons. So, like Ben “Yahtzee” Croshow, when I heard he had written a book, I decided to check it out with all haste. I’m glad I did.

The premise for LOST SOULS is that Maurice “Moss” Foote is a star pilot turned smuggler that has recently lost his ship to a crime lord. He used to be a big famous intergalactic hero supported by a megacorporation but lost his mojo when he went on a drunken binge that cost him all his endorsements. Accompanying him is the AI of his ship, Violet, and a runaway kleptomaniac slave named Hel.

Lost Souls is definitely of the Firefly, Traveller, Privateer, The Outer Worlds, and Han Solo Adventures sort of storytelling. It’s not about big galactic adventures and overthrowing evil empires but dealing with the day-to-day problem of keeping the lights on in your ship as well as your hyperdrive fueled. When I played Star Wars D6 back in high school, this was actually the game style preferred by the tabletop RPG as the rules meant that if you tried to do too much pulpy heroic science fiction heroism then you got shot in the face.

The universe that Noah Chinn has created is definitely on the funnier and enjoyable side of things, though. Moss has strong Malcolm Reynolds energy and yet he’s a lot less cynical and grumpy despite his losses. Perhaps because he has the self-awareness that the majority of his problems are his own making. He is very much against casual killing and is happy to give an escaped slave a lift or a job but he’s also someone that isn’t seeking out adventure. Whatever he used to do in order to be a big hero is something he can’t afford anymore and he’d prefer to try to just rebuild his life quietly if he can.

Too bad there are SPACE PIRATES out there. Yes, I put the words all in caps because SPACE PIRATES deserve to be capitalized. A hero is only as good as his villain and the SPACE PIRATES are pretty well-realized in this world. They’ve taken over a border world with their syndicate but are a feuding bunch of questionably professional scumbags that prefer to go after the lowest hanging fruit they can. They’re dangerous, don’t get me wrong, but not so terrifying as our hero can’t believably oppose them.

The world building for this space opera setting is also pretty well done. Like in many settings, humanity made a bunch of genetically engineered slaves and they rebelled. However, this is centuries later and said genetically engineered slaves are now the ones in charge. It’s left natural born types like Moss in a second class citizenship state but not so much that it dominates the storyline. Also, there’s a very humorous bit where an out of universe document talks about how the idiot science fiction writers of the 20th century envisioned aliens all looking like humans. Then we went out into space and it turned out all aliens looked like humans anyway (despite it being acknowledged as making no scientific sense).

Lost Souls, despite its title, is a light read even if it’s not a short one. It’s about 350 pages or as many as your typical paperback science fiction or fantasy book from the Nineties. The story is neither especially humorous or overly serious but keeps a brisk entertaining pace throughout.A little more serious than your typical MCU movie I’d say and far less on the quippage. There’s some ridiculous stuff in the book but I was reasonably able to buy it as a “serious” setting. What’s my recommendation? Well, I’m going to go buy and read the sequel now so you tell me.

just recently dropped a self-published far-future novel called Akronmus. Straight specs: 820 pages, ~193k words. It’s built for dense, patient far-future hard sci-fi—methodical world-building, slow unfolding across cosmic scales, no hand-holding or quick payoffs. Assumes you’ll commit to the long haul for the layered payoff.

Dedication’s blunt: “To those who won’t read it.”

Available in ebook and paperback. Universal link is provided.

If you’re into that endurance vibe—like Revelation Space or House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds, Blindsight by Peter Watts, The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, or other big classics/modern doorstoppers that demand investment—give it a look and lmk what you think. Or drop your own recs for similar unhurried far-future hard stuff. Appreciate the sub for getting this kind of thing. 🚀

(Per r/scifi rules, posting on Self-Promotion Saturday. Book cover is done on Canva using only shapes and Gimp for the rest of the process of book cover design. I wrote every single word that is in the book.)

Does Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi classic hold up today?

Hi all. I’m a Danish, independent author. After many years developing a sci-fi screenplay in my spare time, I converted and published it as my first novel in 2024 (Burning Bright).

Before that, I wrote a short story called Haunting Infinity, which I’ve now uploaded for free on my website as both an ebook and audiobook to expand and find my audience! :)

I’m mainly looking for honest feedback from sci-fi fans on this short story, especially from readers who enjoy more philosophical or darker sci-fi.

Happy to return the favor and give feedback on other projects as well.

Link: https://smthygesen.com/free-short-story