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leresq · 3 months

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I feel really uncomfortable in media when the Earth is just left behind. Interstellar, Elysium, Starfield, Lost in Space, Wall-E (which is kind of an exception) all just pretend this planet has the potential to lose all meaning for us. This place is full of history and life and culture and plants and animals. But as soon as we have the ability to leave, as soon as our tiny speck of green and blue in the universe coughs a little bit we leave it to become a planet of dust. There's not even an attempt to save anything that makes this place special. The animals and plants, who are our neighbours and roommates? They can all go extinct, who cares, as long as we survive. The buildings, the paintings, the architecture and art? It's all meaningless rubble, as long as we survive. I can't tell if everyone really thinks this planet is nothing to us except a place to infest, or it's just an unfortunate pattern in science fiction. I've never seen the movie but I watched the ending scene of Don't Look Up with Leonardo DiCaprio. What a beautiful scene, I watch it a lot. This planet is everything.

#environment #environmental justice #environmental activism #starfield #lost in space #interstellar #wall e #elysium #don't look up #leonardo dicaprio #science fiction #solarpunk #dystopia #dystopian science fiction

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schlock-luster-video · 5 months

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On November 24, 1993, Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released Special Edition VHS and Laserdisc in the United States.

Here's some new Arnold Schwarzenegger art!

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thespiritofstars · 1 year

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please watch chappie, it's hilarious

#chappie movie #chappie #dystopian science fiction #dystopian sci fi #robots #robot police #science fiction #sci fi #robotic police force #droid #neill blomkamp

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strawberryamanita · 5 months

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So, which Dystopian Sci-Fi stories have we NOT seen come true yet? Is it JUST "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"?

#i was gonna say we haven't done soylent green yet #but with the amount of sacrifice human workers have put into the eternal capitalist machine #it may as well be 1-to-1 #i personally can't think of an analogy that 'i have no mouth' adheres to #it may be too surreal and removed from normalcy #but i could be wrong #i'm open to discussing it lol #i have no mouth and i must scream #dystopian #dystopia #sci fi #science fiction #dystopian science fiction #dystopian sci fi

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icarus-raymondpines · 2 months

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Eyy guys, those of you who are here for my original book;

I was thinking that I might want to write short texts about the characters, their pasts and stuff BEFORE the present time of the book. For example, I have already written about how Carl and Chris first met.

Would you be interested to read them? As sort of a, little treat and lore and something to get you excited about the actual book?

You can comment to this post if you want to, or just like it, if you'd be interested :)

#icarus no one dies twice #ray icarus #icarus #original book #book wip #dystopian science fiction #dystopian #science fiction

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cultofthewyrm · 2 years

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Dark Future Skirmish by Les Edwards

Games Workshop White Dwarf #124 magazine cover, 1989

#80s sci fi #cyberpunk #gunfight #dystopian science fiction

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alchemisoul · 2 years

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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

- Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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monsterfromid · 10 months

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Brazil 1985 1080p BluRay x264 YIFY

Oh, apparently I haven’t finished. I think Buster would’ve loved this movie. It’s full of Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg machines. A man falls in love at first sight then sets about trying to prove himself to win the love of said woman. Bureaucracy is fought against. Buster said that at MGM you had to fill out a form in triplicate in order to get a pencil or words to that effect. It has a remarkably bleak ending that Gilliam had to fight for. Buster knew all about fighting against the studio system. It’s full of dreams. And lastly, it’s just a f***ing masterpiece.

#youtube #brazil film #terry gilliam #film #dystopian science fiction #comedy #drama

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 7 months

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BRING THE DYSTOPIAN FUTURE HOME ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 -- FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON DVD.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a promotional advert for "THX 1138," the 1971 American social science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. The print advert was meant to promote the film's first ever director's cut and release on home media and was featured in "STAR WARS Insider" #78 (October 2004).

""I realized after "THX" that people don’t care about how the country’s being ruined,” he said. “All that movie did was to make people more pessimistic, more depressed and less willing to get involved in trying to make the world better.” His real point was: You can stop things going this way; you can be part of the solution. He just didn't say it in a direct and easily chewable way. With all the talent involved, "THX 1138" became a cult classic over time. And when Lucas revisited the movie in 2003, he wasn’t as heavy-handed with additions as he was with some of his other movies (see the original "STAR WARS" trilogy).

Watching the movie in the light of those later successes, it's easy to note that a great deal of the work can be seen as a prototype for Lucas' later visual achievements. (The movie’s name is also preserved in his THX audiovisual-reproduction company.) “No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to," he reflected. "But with minor exceptions, "THX" came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance – and a whole lot of luck."" -- ULTIMATE CLASSIC ROCK, "50 Years Ago: "STAR WARS" Begins with George Lucas’ "THX 1138,"" by Martin Kielty, March 11, 2021

Sources: www.reddit.com/r/thankthemaker/comments/vlwgxp & Ultimate Classic Rock.

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ohfugecannada · 2 years

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Craiyon + Sci fi sub genres

#unreality #sci fi #science fiction #genres #space opera #hard science fiction #soft science fiction #dystopian science fiction #utopian science Fiction #absurdist science Fiction #pulp science fiction

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boxboysandotherwhump · 9 months

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@redwingedwhump since we are talking about more sci-fi elements in the bbu. Here is a snippet from the boxboy comic I started :3

#whump #box boy universe #box boy whump #they’ve got hover bikes baby #hell yeah #dystopian science fiction

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schlock-luster-video · 23 days

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On April 2, 1985, Blade Runner was re-released in Italy.

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jonathantaylor · 1 year

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right on the day this video was about to be shared here, I get this book’s sequel recommended to me. A coincidence, to be sure, but a very welcome one.

@xiranjayzhao notice me, senpai

#the heir's lair #book review #sff #sff review #science fiction #science fiction review #dystopia #dystopian science fiction #dystopia review #own voices #chinese culture #yin and yang #the five elements #mecha #mecha fiction #iron widow

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music-despite-everything · 1 month

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Excerpt from Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize, for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award.

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I found I was standing before acres of ploughed earth. There was a fence keeping me from stepping into the field, with two lines of barbed wire, and I could see how this fence and the cluster of three or four trees above me were the only things breaking the wind for miles. All along the fence, especially along the lower line of wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled. It was like the debris you get on a seashore: the wind must have carried some of it for miles and miles before finally coming up against these trees and these two lines of wire. Up in the branches of the trees, too, I could see, flapping about, torn plastic sheeting and bits of old carrier bags. That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields, that I started to imagine just a little fantasy thing, because this was Norfolk after all, and it was only a couple of weeks since I’d lost him. I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy, and he’d wave, maybe even call. The fantasy never got beyond that – I didn’t let it – and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

#prose #kazuo ishiguro #never let me go #dystopian science fiction #science fiction #booker prize #arthur c. clarke award #national book critics circle award

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therealimintobooks · 2 months

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#BlogTour ~ Green Corrosion by Costi Gurgu @CostiGurgu @SDBookTours

Earth is plagued by the Black Rain turning water into a gel and destroying the whole ecology. Geo Woodman is on a mission to protect his clan and to save the people of Torono from the upcoming ecological disaster. Green Corrosion The Corrosion Series Book 1 by Costi Gurgu Genre: Post-apocalyptic, Dystopian Science Fiction The devastating Black Rain has transformed the once-lush land into an…

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#BookPromo #BookRec #BookTwitter #Dystopian Science Fiction #Post-Apocalyptic BlogTour

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