So I live in Pakistan and got the chance to visit one of the best bookstore in Lahore. I've heard of Adrian Tchaikovsky and I do know that his Children Of Time is very good, but never got the chance to read it. I just finished the Cradle series and DCC, and finished half of The Expanse series books (just wrapped up Babylon's Ashes) and wanted to take a quick break so that i don't get burnt out since I love the TV Show and the books so far.

I was able to find these in the SciFi section and decided to pick them up. When I got home, I sent a pic to a friend and he said that Adrian's best work is in Children of Time, and a lot of his other work takes place in the same or similar universe.

Which got me confused, should I read the CoT first and then read his other books? Or is this also a good book to get into Tchaikovsky's work?

For me it was Terry Miles's "Rabbits: A Novel".

It started out pretty good and reminded me of the game element of Ready Player One. The big plot reveal about the origin and purpose of the game was, I wouldn't say underwhelming but rather outlandish and unbelievable (I'm really trying not to call it stupid here) that I felt betrayed and had to force myself to finish the book out of principle.

I'm also struggling with book two, Shift in the Wool Series by Hugh Howey. I loved the first book, Wool and story wise I have no issue but the world in Shift so far, is just so depressing that I paused and read some other books instead. I will pick it back up and I suspect the slump is just a phase of the series that has a good narrative purpose but it just feels so draining to get through.

Beautiful beyond compare, in story, in scope, in message, in presentation, in performance. There's no other word I can think of that better encompasses this movie other than beautiful.

A movie everyone regardless of your preferences regarding media should watch at some point. Ryan Gosling already carved out a place for himself in the sci-fi hall of fame as K in BR 2049, but he somehow topped that performance as Ryland Grace.

There's nothing I can say in any amount of characters that can convey to you the importance of this movie. Just watch it man.

I'm not made to survive even nice scifi futures. Forget Cyberpunk 2077 or Warhammer 40K, I'm not sure I'd survive in Star Trek's 24th century. I'd be trapping myself in the holodeck with a replicator and never coming out. Eventually, it'd malfunction and kill me.

I suspect that lack of survival skills is just as common among other fandom. So, I decided to make this thread as a response to all those, "What scifi universe would you like to live in?" with the funnier or more lore accurate answers the better.

Examples:

• Killed by the Fremen for refusing to say Paul Atreides was the messiah, probably doing a Monty Python's Life of Brian and calling him a naughty boy in the process.
• Crushed by Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, ironically when protesting for mutant rights.
• Ending up force choked when I demand to speak with a Stormtrooper's supervisor for his harrassing me over my droids.
• Definitely not making it to the Galactica in time to evacuate when the nukes fall due to my inability to pack quickly or leave behind pets.

So, I recently saw a post about peak starship aesthetics and it inspired me to make a post about one of my favorite ship aesthetics that a whole five other people also enjoy. Project Stardust includes custom ships from their homebrew universe, Aureus. A picture of the tree, followed by some of my personal favs.

Added are some ships in game that more people will probably recognize

Anyone know of any modern day remake of the original 1938 war of the worlds. I’m looking for something that I can put on during a holiday party. That’ll play some music and then will do the radio drama much similar to how it was done in 1938. The goal is hopefully freak some people out.

Has anybody read this book / does anyone recommend reading it? I haven’t heard of it but its up for some awards and has a blurb from Adrian Tchaikovsky, and I did really enjoy Children of Time. I generally like space operas and I’m looking for my next book.

Heyyyy I need to fill my void after I’ve seen the silo and paradise back to back,
Firstly in love with the silo, paradise was alr not my favorite show if I’m gonna be honest!

Shows I’ve loved. The silo, the 100, Alice in borderline period!
There’s more but can’t think of any atm

But I’ve been thinking about starting fringe, Westworld, the expanse, pluribus.

But would love to here if you have any other recs