The Hard Sci-fi thread

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

Oh and I know it's blatant self-promo spamming - but if you like your Hard SF in music form, then you should get my new album :

You can Download it for free here : [url]http://ionplasmaincineration.bandcamp.com/album/outer-reality-engine-free-version[/url]

It also makes great soundtrack music to your tabletop wargaming as it is as very intense, sci-fi cinematic and aggressive sound to it.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

After reading this article I am really excited! Sort of stuff I have always wanted to see on screen, and the black hole looks stunning. This def the SF film I have been waiting for! I might even actually see it in the cinema and i havent been to a cinema in about 20 years.

[url]http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/#[/url]

Some choice quotes :
Thorne sent his answers to Franklin in the form of heavily researched memos. Pages long, deeply sourced, and covered in equations, they were more like scientific journal articles than anything else. Franklin's team wrote new rendering software based on these equations and spun up a wormhole. The result was extraordinary. It was like a crystal ball reflecting the universe, a spherical hole in spacetime. “Science fiction always wants to dress things up, like it's never happy with the ordinary universe,” he says. “What we were getting out of the software was compelling straight off.”



Still, no one knew exactly what a black hole would look like until they actually built one. Light, temporarily trapped around the black hole, produced an unexpectedly complex fingerprint pattern near the black hole's shadow. And the glowing accretion disk appeared above the black hole, below the black hole, and in front of it. “I never expected that,” Thorne says. “Eugénie just did the simulations and said, ‘Hey, this is what I got.’ It was just amazing.”

[40kGamer]

This does look very promising.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

I know right? It's the sort of stuff I've wanted to see for years. I have nothing against soft SF and I do enjoy a fair amount of it, but hard SF is really lacking when it comes to visual representments. Most of it only exists in book form which is quite sad as there is a ton of awesome visuals - I'd love to see Nolan tackle an adaptation of Ring or Star Maker.

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Speaking of Ring, found this awesome fanart of it :

[wayne williams]

i loved olaf stapletons starmaker almost no one i know has ever read it .

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

i loved olaf stapletons starmaker almost no one i know has ever read it .

I'm glad someone here has! Yeah I agree, i can't believe how so many people havent heard of it - even Arthur C clarke praised it as the greatest and most imaginative piece of litterature ever and it's influence on SF is crazy. Most Transhumanism/Post-human stuff can be traced back to Last and first men too.

He doesn't get anywhere near enough of the credt he deserves. It's kind of soul destroying.

[Tyrendian]

This does look very promising.

and so it was - brilliant movie that! can't recommend it enough!

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

Good to hear!! Very excited for it.



Speaking of exciting :
‘Interstellar's’ Jonah Nolan Developing ‘Foundation’ Series for HBO
[url]http://www.thewrap.com/interstellars-jonah-nolan-developing-foundation-series-for-hbo-wbtv-exclusive/[/url]

AND

Ridley Scott to Adapt Arthur C. Clarke Novel ‘3001’
[url]http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/syfy-ridley-scott-to-adapt-arthur-c-clarke-novel-3001-1201346056/[/url]

both = AWESOME!

Looks like my Hard SF prayers are being answered

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

Red Mars to get a TV series written by J. Michael Straczynski of babylon5 fame? Yes please! So happy to see something like this come out.

Hard sci-fi fans got very excited back in September when it was announced that Kim Stanley Robinson's beloved Mars trilogy was being adapted for Spike TV, as Red Mars, under the guidance of Game of Thrones producer Vince Gerardis. It's one of the most acclaimed sci-fi series of the past 20 years, it's got plenty of longform potential, and Robinson himself is on board as a consultant, so it's easy to see why many of us can't wait to see if the show materializes.

What wasn't announced at the time was when we'd see the show, who'd star in it or who'd take on writing and directing duties. Now Deadline reports that at least one of those questions has been answered: Red Mars will be written by Babylon 5 creator and comics writer J. Michael Straczynski.




[url]http://www.blastr.com/2015-1-21/babylon-5-creator-heads-back-tv-write-red-mars-series[/url]

Now if only they'd hire me to do the soundtrack...

[Psychosplodge]

This could be very very good, or very very bad.
I hope for the former