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I'll do a blog on it I think. There are things to say about it.
There are socialists who say Orwell wasn't really a socialist, and they are probably right, but what Orwell gets so very right is how censorship works. By removing references to better things, people have no means to criticise current things. You can't say the current government is bad if you have no proof things were ever better.
As Orwell says: Who controls the past controls the future.
#propaganda #censorship
"1984" von George Orwell - Widerstand ist zwecklos
#Hörbuch#SciFi#Realität
"Krieg ist Frieden. Freiheit ist Sklaverei. Unwissenheit ist Stärke" - so lautet die Parole der einzigen Partei in Orwells dystopischen Roman von 1948. Die Geschichte von Winston Smith im Überwachungsstaat Ozeanien gehört zu den meistgelesenen Werken des 20. Jahrhunderts, allein der Titel ist zum Signalwort geworden. Denn es ist ein Buch, das als Barometer der Gegenwart funktioniert: Wie steht's um unseren Staat, unsere Welt heute im Vergleich zu Ozeanien? Im Zeitalter von Fake News, Wahlmanipulation und Datendiebstahl? Winston Smith, die Hauptfigur von "1984", beginnt schreibend eine hoffnungslose Rebellion. Der mehrfach preisgekrönte Erzähler Christian Brückner (u.a. Robert de Niros Synchronstimme) liest Orwells Sci-Fi-Klassiker in vier Folgen.
Thank you (and your publisher) for making it available without DRM!
#Books #ScienceFiction #MarkARayner #Bookstodon #SFF #SciFi #DRMfree
#SciFi #Bücher #Fediverse #Bookwyrm
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Please please please please have an astrophysicist or aerospace engineer review your book before publishing.
I'm reading an award-winning scifi book right now and while the writing is good and the author obviously tried to get the science details down, they also obviously didn't do much more than read wikipedia. It's getting painful to read.
#Authors #bookstodon #books #writing #ScienceFiction #Space
https://samerion.com/journal/2025-01
Last year, Samerion has finally seen the long awaited changes to its design. Today, I discuss its history, elaborating on past designs, and explain elements that make up the current day look of the website.
#samerion #gamedev #blog #fantasy #scifi #programming #design #webdev
Totalitarian Homogenous eXistence
#blog #film #culture #scifi #warningShots
https://lukedorny.com/updates/1138
Some books allow you to be enveloped in them like a cuddle from a doughy grandmother. Others scream in your face obnoxiously like the shift manager at a McDonald's on a bank holiday weekend. This book is the latter.
#scifi#religion#horror#book#booksthomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-ascension-nicholas-binge/
Becky Chambers 2nd Monk & Robot novella, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (2022) is every bit as charming & philosophically rich as the first (micro-review 186). Together they tell the tale of the growing relationship between a wondering tea-monk & a robot emissary seeking to understand the world of humans. Asking fascinating questions about what sentience is but also a story of friendship, I cannot recommend the pair enough!
@bookstodon #books #SciFi
So I've decided to serialize it, in four parts, starting today. If you're impatient to get the whole story, you can listen to my podcast of it, which I started in 2014, then stopped podcasting for four years (!) before finishing in 2018:"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/30/landlord-telco-industrial-complex/#captive-market
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #DigitalRights
Lavanya Lakshminarayan's dystopian SciFi novel The Ten Percent Thief (2023) is set in a future aversion of Bangalore, now Apex, where society has been stratified by algorithms. Told in a series of vignettes, the mosaic structure reveals the working of the new society & the strategy of the political resistance. Its a great read & once you get used the structure a highly convincing if frightening version of the future.
@bookstodon #SciFi #books #AI
And I stand by my description of: "poop with legs."
For more insightful analyses 😂, check out the #podcast : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/ursae-pop-culture-superstar/
📷 :https://afterearth.fandom.com/wiki/Ursa?file=Ursa-maximus.jpg
#Movie #Alien #SciFi #AfterEarth #Podcast #SFF #WillSmith #villain #Aliens #humor #Creature
Ursa
The Ursa are science fictional creatures created by the Skrel they were first deployed on Nova Prime in the year 576 A.E. The Ursa is a genetic creation of the Skrel, bred specifically for killing humans.Contributors to After Earth Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)
Mickey 17: Neuer Trailer stimmt auf den Kinostart des Klon-Chaos ein
Wenn das regelmäßige Sterben zur Jobbeschreibung gehört, ist das nicht nur ziemlich ungewöhnlich, sondern kann auch ungeahnte Probleme nach sich ziehen - so auch für den Protagonisten der Science-Fiction-Komödie Mickey 17, die Anfang März in den deut…Thomas Zick (WinFuture.de)
https://gizmodo.com/beloved-sci-fi-author-octavia-butlers-gravesite-survived-los-angeles-fire-2000552204
Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler's Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
Altadena, California was the home of the esteemed Afrofuturism pioneer who wrote Parable of the Sower.Sabina Graves (Gizmodo)
#Videos #Movies #TV #Watch #ToWatch #DVD #Streaming #Watching #WatchingNow #Film #Cinema #Television #Media #DVDs #Movie #SciFi #ScienceFiction
Natürlich wird wieder bei Seite 0 angefangen und ab und zu melde ich mich mal aus dem Maschinenraum und sage euch Bescheid, wie es ist. Natürlich ohne mehr zu spoilern als es die Serie ja schon gemacht hat.
#Buch #Bücher #Bookwyrm #SciFi
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If you'd like to join in, this week's film is BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980), a Roger Corman classic. It's available on a variety of free streaming services, or on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/battle-beyond-the-stars-1980
#Movies #Cinema #Cinemastodon #Scifi #Horror
Battle Beyond The Stars : Roger Corman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching...Internet Archive
"Alpha Max is funny... the kind of funny that has you thinking while your laughing. If that's your bag, Mark is your guy. He writes such round characters in well built worlds that end up in hilarious absurd situations. I love how he takes the absolute most unlikely heroes and ignites them into action!" –D. Brown
https://geni.us/AlphaMax
#SciFi
#SFF
#humor
#humour
#books
#book
#bookstodon
#scifi #disability #hope
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/02/alice-wong-interview
#Videos #Movies #TV #Watch #ToWatch #DVD #Streaming #Watching #WatchingNow #Film #Cinema #Television #Media #DVDs #Movie #SciFi #ScienceFiction #1980s
Star Trek rejects collectivism while still avoiding lazy critiques. We are treated to the traumatic reintroduction of a Borg drone to humanity, who experiences debilitating withdrawal symptoms, missing desperately the collective’s voice in her head. It is a reminder of how authoritarianism can be dangerously attractive to the lonely, but also of how important it is to pay the price of personhood.
But Star Trek does not just offer a vision of a splendid future. Like any other practical manifesto, it offers a theory of change: of social evolution founded on solid historical materialist tenets."
https://unherd.com/2025/01/why-the-left-needs-to-watch-star-trek/
#Communism #StarTrek #HistoricalMaterialism #SciFi #ScienceFiction
It looks a bit crappy.
#NerdOutWithMe | The Gang Watches KRULL! The 80s Fantasy Movie
https://tilvids.com/w/iWTaDxoL9GGkzt3gAqbccs
#Movies #Scifi
The Gang Watches KRULL! The 80s Fantasy Movie
The gang decides to watch their favorite movie Krull while Fozzy isn't around. #krull #80s #80smoviesTILvids
My fam has a monthly book club, it's my turn to pick a book. Looking for suggestions.
Must be < 500 pages. And a GREAT read. A recent book (last few years) is best, less chance someone has read it.
This month, we are reading "Iron Widow". Fantastic book.
Any recommendations? Please and thank you!
FantasyThreads #SciFi #Books
Funniest book: It's a tie between The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff and Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland. The first is hella feminist and is set in contemporary north India. The latter is hella queer and is set in a fantasy version of the Caribbean (gay pirates!)
Best scifi adventure: Echo of Worlds by M. R. Carey
Best thought-provoking scifi: Julia by Sandra Newman
(Scifi is my main genre so I have to divide it up)
Best non-fiction: The Balfour Declaration by Jonathan Schneer. It has the best writing imo. Closely followed by Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis.
All of these books are good; if I don't like a book then I usually don't finish it and am even less likely to review it.
My bookwyrm handle is just @SallyStrange@bookwyrm.social! I will probably be posting about even more books in 2025, as I've now really gotten into the habit of using Bookwyrm.
http://bookwyrm.social/user/SallyStrange/2024-in-the-books?key=c51bab9e5ea146ae94fdf18b29939a55
#books #scifi #SFF #nonfiction
@bookstodon
Emily Blunt Hints At ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’ Sequel
Emily Blunt Hints At 'Edge Of Tomorrow' Sequel - INBELLAINBELLA
These hopeful climate fiction stories would make great holiday gifts, esp for folks who are struggling with the dark times ahead.
I'm selling them at cost ($10 incl shipping, US ONLY), while supplies last. I'd love for them to be affordable heart-warming gifts for folks you care about (or maybe for YOU). 🌞 📖
https://susankayequinn.com/signed-paperbacks-at-cost
#solarpunk #climatefiction #climatechange #climatecrisis #scifi #books @bookstadon
SIGNED paperbacks at COST
I went to a couple conferences this year (including a Solarpunk Expo!) where I sold a bunch of books, but I’ve got some leftover stock that would make GREAT holiday gifts, so I’m moving…SUSAN KAYE QUINN
https://www.workshops4gaza.com/bookstore/thyme-travellers
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#PalestinianCulture #Palestine #Gaza #Books #bookstodon #scifi
Thyme Travellers — Workshops 4 Gaza
Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora's best voices in speculative fiction.Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Workshops 4 Gaza)
The thing about the #Dune #books is that they aren't really about #scifi technology, yet this adaptation begins and it's all about technology.
I suppose they're trying to appeal to scifi fans, but in my opinion it's unnecessary to focus on technology.
Also Jessica is rubbish in this.
