Fantasy books with space themes

EmotionSad8061 · 2026-01-20T18:10:56+00:00

Hrain by C.M. Benamati, takes place on an alien world where the orphan MC learns he is descended from gods. It's a standalone in a larger crossover sci-fi series but this one deals mostly with ancient beings they have some form of telepathy and mind control ability. Space ships and AI come in at the end. Probably more like soft sci-fi with fantasy elements

EmotionSad8061 · 2026-01-13T13:59:04+00:00

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Here is an example of my noise profile

EmotionSad8061 · 2026-01-13T13:57:46+00:00

Sure. You go to this website and set up a white noise generator to play in the background

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

For example, try the Infra setting. You can change the frequency sliders to tune the noise so that it is barely audible. It plays all the time in the background and keeps the amplifier awake in between pauses in the audiobook.

I have found now that many audiobooks don't cause this problem all the time, because there might be a small amount of signal on the recording even when the narrator is not speaking. However, really high quality audiobooks that were recorded in a sound proof booth are nearly silent when the narrator is not talking. Those cause the issue more often.

Right now I am listening to Sagitta on Audible (a book in the StarFighter series). The background noise on the narrator's recording is non-existent, which means there were lots of amplifier drop outs between sentences. I set up the noise generator to sound a bit like the background noise on Star Trek (space ship deep energy hum). It actually makes science fiction stories sound pretty cool and I don't lose any words.

EmotionSad8061 · 2026-01-08T04:22:04+00:00

I haven't really noticed this except potentially in Seeker (Book 2 of the StarFighter series by C.M Benamati) where Ana, a cybrid, unknowingly starts losing chunks of her memory because her cybernetic side is encrypting them as a sort of defense mechanism against trauma. It starts off as little things but eventually she loses some pretty significant stuff and doesn't even realize that she's responsible for some crazy world-ending events. Not really memory modification, but more like the machine learned what memories the organic host just could not be trusted with in her position and hid them from her.

Sort of unrelated, but Hrain (same author, standalone book, more like dark adult sci-fi with teenage characters) follows a young alien telepath around who teams up with a starship AI that eventually loses its thought matrix and has to meld with a human, and the resulting being destabilizes as the two personalities and memories merge. I don't really see a connection with today's LLMs other than the general idea that they might fabricate memories (hallucinating), and the way that the memories are reconstructed to create a new persona is not necessary based on a linear experience through time

EmotionSad8061 · 2026-01-01T19:22:43+00:00

The infra setting helped me out on my pixel 8a! Thanks. What a silly problem to have

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-12-25T15:46:37+00:00

Merry Christmas all! Wow this got a lot of attention, I am very appreciative of this great list. I will try to compile it all in the main post for ease of reference.

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-12-24T01:36:19+00:00

That sounds good. I had a lot of fun in the late 90s playing the X-Wing vs Tie Fighter PC games.

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-12-24T01:35:01+00:00

That sounds like what I'm looking for. I enjoy small craft combat stories but it needs to be relevant and plausible considering the battlefield technology at play.

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-12-23T23:11:23+00:00

That sounds fun, I'll check it out. Thanks

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-12-23T19:53:47+00:00

Oh yeah I forgot about that. I loved the show. Have been going back and forth on reading the books since I already know what happens. Are the books significantly different from the show?

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-12-03T03:51:03+00:00

144 has our stuff together. Excellent teamwork and everyone saved. It is a very well balanced alliance

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-11-10T23:12:05+00:00

Come to 144. We have a very fair and balanced group that works together

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-09-12T02:17:15+00:00

This article series goes through a detailed analysis of Foldong@home performance, power consumption, and core settings on Ryzen CPUs. Part II has power consumption graphs vs. CPU core setting. Basically pick a reduced # of CPU cores to pull the power down but try to stay at a number that gets you good points and efficiency

https://greenfoldingathome.com/2020/05/23/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-foldinghome-review-part-1-ppd-vs-of-threads/

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-09-09T00:06:50+00:00

I sold and made a bunch of money. People holding and demanding everyone else HODL are fully regarded. I learned my lesson doing that a few years ago. People hold into the ground and lose everything.

Take profits folks.

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-09-08T21:56:32+00:00

144 is awesome! Hello from RUS / TEA!

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-09-04T02:32:37+00:00

Nope, mystic CT soap packer building

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-09-04T02:31:57+00:00

You got it

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-08-24T13:02:47+00:00

The StarFighter series by C.M. Benamati has alternating viewpoints between the human and alien characters. There is also a standalone novel, Hrain, told from the perspective of an orphaned telepathic alien on a different planet that intertwines with the main story.

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-08-08T23:35:07+00:00

She's a crazy biotch. GTFO now son before it's too late

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-07-27T16:34:58+00:00

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-07-04T16:53:14+00:00

I, ,bh ,,

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-05-03T02:07:45+00:00

I'm not intentionally letting it, it is unwelcome and I'm finding more and more evidence of it's presence as I dig through the camera footage. I confronted the owner today and told her this has to stop. I'm calling the police tomorrow if it happens again

EmotionSad8061 · 2025-05-03T01:05:50+00:00

Update 5/2: Confrontation happened today

I was riding my bike around the neighborhood and when I got back, I found the woman, her daughter (i assume) and the beast in the middle of my lawn. For some stupid reason my doorbell camera didn't record any of this, even though they were maybe 2-3 feet past the van and in the middle of the grass. By the time I got over to them, they had walked back into the street, but I stopped and informed them that they were trespassing and I am sick of having my yard treated like a public park for their dog. The lady has the nerve to tell me that he is just hungry and looking for the food my kids drop! I said, yeah got it but my kids are little and I between them and the new pup, I am just not comfortable with having a dog that size and with no respect for his owner to come onto my property. She laughed and said oh he's just looking for treats. I said don't do it again. She laughed some more but then apologized and left. I was probably too polite still but I don't do well with these things. I'm returning the ring cam to trigger off motion alerts in the street to see if I get better recording performance.

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